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  1. EU Task Force sees progress on reforms and structural funds in Greece

    EconomyProgramme

    Reforms are delivering results and there has been an increase in the absorption of European Union..., the absorption rate for Greece has improved to 81.3 percent in June 2014 compared to the EU average... that technical assistance has been provided to curb health expenditure, improve the pricing and reimbursement

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  2. Don't let the facts get in the way of "Argentinology"
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    Agora

    to default last week, the Greek government, which has been left with few convincing arguments... in circulation than the central bank has reserves (dollars in this case) so it can convert them one... convertibility, Argentina followed the policies that the International Monetary Fund has been long advocating

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  3. The television will not be revolutionised
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    Agora

    broadcasts, it has found itself without a chairman for a second time. Antonis Makrydimitris, and his deputy... departed suggests that the coalition has little appetite for NERIT becoming the independent broadcaster it promised. Either that or it has abandoned those intentions with the same speed it passed

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  4. Standoff over civil servants in Greece bears hallmarks of pre-election clash
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    and SYRIZA over the evaluation of civil servants. The conflict has arisen from the refusal... Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has decided to adopt a scheme that will result in 15 percent of civil.... Mitsotakis insists that almost 4,000 more dismissals, which the government has agreed with the troika

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  5. SYRIZA builds clear but not conclusive lead in polls as PASOK and GD fade
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    Another weekend has passed and another set of polls have given SYRIZA a clear but not decisive lead... between SYRIZA and New Democracy has widened by 1.5 percentage point in the last month. The opposition... and PASOK polling 4 percent or less in two of the three. While PASOK’s decline has been evident

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  6. How Samaras backed himself and Greece into a corner over bailout exit
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    Agora

    of a government on the run. In less than five months, the coalition has backed itself and the country... months on, the review has still not been concluded and Samaras and Venizelos are still meeting every... of oversight. It should not be forgotten that European Central Bank president Mario Draghi has made

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  7. Crisis weakens confidence in Greek representative institutions
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    Society

    pollster has found. Conducted by Public Issue since 2007, the annual survey looks at the public’s... confidence in the military, which has seen its rating grow from 71 percent in eight years, while trust... of respondents expressed confidence in political parties, a figure which has remained almost unchanged since 2007

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  8. Greek MPs pass 2015 budget but give few clues for presidential vote
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    the ballot and has also suggested she will vote for the coalition’s presidential candidate. Grigoris... into claims of plans to bribe deputies has been dropped but another has just begun. If the second set..., the tension from Saturday could carry over as Romanos has entered the fourth week of a hunger strike

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  9. How snap elections in Greece fit into Samaras's strategy
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    Agora

    . There has been a distinct sense over recent weeks that the government has lost the appetite to see through the adjustment programme it has repeatedly argued is the only option for Greece to exit the crisis.... The polarisation of the political debate in Greece (in which the opposition has also played

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  10. Golden Dawn: Forgotten but not gone
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    With its leader and half of its parliamentary group in jail, it is no surprise that Golden Dawn has... the election campaign, Golden Dawn has had little presence in the Greek media over the past few... Michaloliakos and several of its leading candidates were on TV regularly. The party has been pushed

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