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Does new troika visit spell fresh drama for Greece? Maybe not
Economy. How long can Greece go without receiving its next bailout instalment? Greece does not have any bond... in the last quarter of this year. How much money has Greece received so far and how much more... by nothing more than a difference of opinion over economic assumptions. It remains to be seen how decisively
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The wrong prescription
Agoraof speculation about how targets will be met. This time the focus is on the structural rather than fiscal side... details of how money will be saved with a similar tug of war over the minutiae of reforms. The current... to healthcare is becoming a burning issue in Greece, serious thought should go into how to protect
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Public deficit and democratic duty
Agorachief, Andreas Georgiou, and about how the deficit figure was calculated. Even the current government... round of speculation about how Greece’s public deficit reached 15.8 percent of GDP in 2009. Indeed... to see how there was any prospect of Athens borrowing from international markets at reasonable
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Samaras, Tsipras under pressure to deliver on plans for economic policy
PoliticsGreek PoliticsMP and close Samaras associate Chrysanthos Lazaridis on Saturday. However, it is not clear how much... in Paris on Tuesday for three days of talks. Much will depend on how these negotiations play out... costing, its economic plan so it is not clear how much detail the opposition leader will be able
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Newsletter 4 - 21/11/2014
. So far, there has been no breakdown of how the troika has arrived at this figure, although one... a fiscal gap figure of up to 3.6 billion in 2015 but has not explained how it arrived at this figure... – said he is in two minds about how to vote. He said there is a 50 percent chance he will back
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Newsletter 9 - 30/12/2014
a risk to people’s and the country’s finances. The battle over economic policy How and where... measures, SYRIZA has not revealed how it would clinch an agreement with the troika... institutions underlined how fragile their asset quality continues to be. In September of this year
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Samaras strays out of line in search for new normal
Agoraat which its GDP is growing or how much foreign direct investment it has received cannot be his only.... The murderous attack on the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo in Paris emphasised just how precious these values are and how much more they define us than the level of our salaries or whether our
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Greece and lenders with conceptual, as well as practical, gaps to bridge
PoliticsGreek PoliticsMartin Schulz, Varoufakis set out the government’s ideas on how Athens envisages its relationship..., European Central Bank and the IMF. It is such a departure from how the process has worked since... to turn on its head the whole concept of how the eurozone will help Greece out of the crisis means
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Newsletter 29 - 05/06/2015
of how not to negotiate The fatigue factor and frustration among eurozone member states towards Greece... of the past eight months are riddled with twists and turns that could fill a library of how... of practical experience illustrate how the existing coordinates of European policymaking vis-à-vis
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Between heaven and hell
Agoramost Greeks have gone through an almost daily mental struggle about their country’s future and how.... Greeks wonder how they got here and how they will get out of this mess as they wait to withdraw... greater. Many do not have cash cards or do not know how to use them. Hundreds of banks have opened
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