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Learning the lessons of Greece's toxic decade
Agoraof state. This is the man who fell asleep at the wheel when the global financial crisis hit in 2008.... In May 2010, Parliaments across Europe were asked to approve a package of loans worth 80 billion... and SYRIZA’s May 2012 election campaign focused on the hardships that Greece had to endure, arguing
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Serbia’s road to collective immunity: A tale of two realities
Agorathat several advertisers stopped advertising with his outlet. The man decided to stop the campaign," read... and decided to contribute to that campaign as best as he can. And now this man is worried about the future... the most successful weapon in overcoming all kinds of diseases. He may have thought - what would have
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Post-election blamestorming or Why Harris lost and the Democrats should nominate Oprah
Agoraonly 107 days between when Biden announced his withdrawal and election day. She may well have been...* cost, inflation and rising wages be damned. Unfair though it may be, people blame the Biden... a near impossible task, establishing herself as a credible candidate against a man with universal
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Budget primary surplus of 2.28 bln in first five months of 2016, tax revenues beat target in May
EconomyMacroeconomyeuros in May from a small surplus of 43 million in April. In addition, the 5-month state budget deficit... by 15.9 percent in May after falling in the two previous months. In absolute terms, revenues stood at 3.38 billion euros in May, beating the target by 514 million, which represents the highest monthly
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New Democracy counts down to Sunday's leadership vote
PoliticsGreek Politicsvictory and becoming prime minister: 31 percent believe this man is Mitsotakis, while 21 percent put... levels of the party may prove more potent on Sunday than Mitsotakis’s active campaign, which included... as more of a man of the people than Mitsotakis and as someone who will take decisions with the average
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Macedonia and other Greek words
Agora, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM)) may seem bizarre to many foreigners, and even some... that it is not an appropriate time to hold protests and that consensus should prevail. The man of the cloth proved not to be a man of his word. Ieronymos abandoned this position after some of his leading bishops
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Podcast - Kaisariani photos: Why Greece’s past is present
Agorathat courage’: Greece recovers long-lost photos of Nazis’ May Day executions – The Guardian Man moved...When a set of long‑lost photographs of the 1944 May Day executions of 200 Greeks by Nazi occupation... Photographs of 1944 Nazi Executions in Greece Declared Protected Monument – Dnews Cretan Man Recognizes His
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General gov't cash primary surplus to May halves, arrears keep rising
EconomyMacroeconomy, albeit at a slower rate, by 4.5 percent month on month (MoM) in May from 9 percent in April. The increase... showed arrears reached 5.04 billion at the end of May from 4.82 billion in April. This means that creation of arrears almost halved in May to 218 million from around 400 million in each
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Credit contracts by slower rate of 2.1 pct in May
EconomyMacroeconomyGreek bank credit contraction further decelerated to 2.1 percent in May from 2.4 percent in April, according to the Bank of Greece (BoG). The May headline figure is the slowest drop since August 2011... deductions to 253 million in May from 542 million in April and is entirely attributed to household
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Unemployment rate fell to 25 pct in May, its lowest level in the last three years
EconomyMacroeconomyGreece’s seasonally adjusted (SA) unemployment rate fell for the second straight month in May, when... (ELSTAT). The May headline figure is the lowest reading since June 2012. The non-seasonally-adjusted...) from 25.5 percent in April to 24 percent in May. This is also the lowest reading in the past three
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