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Newsletter 246 -03/04/2020
or whose business has been affected by the measures to limit the spread of Covid-19 means that up... of the measures presented by the government so far as well as the extra spending on healthcare that has been... lack of a surge in cases in the country. The Health Ministry has given assurances that the system
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Multiple crises fence in Greece
Agorathe only source of funding available at the moment, it has to adopt measures (such as VAT rises... matter much. One banner summed up the mood perfectly: “Our patience has run out.” This is the result of the fatigue of spending 5.5 years under an adjustment programme that has failed to get Greece back
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This is where the last few days have left Greece and lenders
AgoraIt has usually been the case during the last seven years that when a Greek government is nearing... that the era of austerity has come to an end, claims that the International Monetary Fund has abandoned its long-held positions and that the coalition has signed up to even higher primary surplus targets. Quite
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The rise of a "Spanish SYRIZA" transform’s country’s politics
Agoranot have any precedent in the nearly 40 years of democracy in Spain. Nut nor has the country experienced... the “Spanish SYRIZA” has sprung up. Consequently, national politics in Spain seems to have turned... decisions or resolute actions that could somewhat satisfy voters. That has invigorated Podemos. “What Spain
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Newsletter 38 - 07/08/2015
The imposition of capital controls on June 29 has had a clearly negative impact on consumption.... This has been mostly evident in the clothing and footwear sector, while the impact in other sectors... (EFTPOS) from small firms and the self-employed has grown, with press reports citing bank sources
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A year of risk and reward for Greece
Agorathat contributed to one of the most damaging economic crises the developed world has seen. If everything goes to plan (admittedly, it rarely has during the past eight years), the third programme’s third review... has to be produced next year and every year until 2022. After that (and subject to what is agreed
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Newsletter 327 - 11/02/2022
has pledged since the start of the energy crisis last autumn to 2 billion euros. Finance Minister Christos Staikouras noted that the government has very limited room for manoeuvre as far... virtually all the fiscal space has been taken up by the recent reduction to the ENFIA property tax
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Newsletter 21 - 27/03/2015
budget. SYRIZA has pledged to replace ENFIA with a tax on large properties, after a downward... SYRIZA had initially predicted the new tax would return 2 billion less in revenue and has refrained... unclear. That said, Energy Minister Panagiotis Lafazanis has repeatedly ruled out the privatisation
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Rise of smaller parties a barrier to decisive result in first elections
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe past few days has also shifted to the smaller parties, which may yet play a significant role... by Skai TV on Tuesday night suggests that the gap between New Democracy and SYRIZA has grown by 2.5... purely in terms of voting intentions, support for New Democracy has increased by 1.5 points since
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Newsletter 53 - 27/11/2015
no longer support the measures the government has to implement as part of its bailout agreement... election fiasco wounds conservative party unity New Democracy has just experienced one of the most... the Meimarakis and Samaras camps. Samaras has been largely silent during the lengthy leadership campaign
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