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Varoufakis and his friendly fire
Agorain the euro area has a clear idea of how it would deal with a Grexit if it comes. It would be criminal... that Varoufakis’s leaks about the parallel payment system prompt is how the prime minister could entrust... interest is to tell a good tale, regardless of how damaging the consequences may be. In a recent TV
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TINA politics and the Greek elections
Agora. But the same campaign strategy will not work again, given how discredited many of its advocates are and how disillusioned voters have become in the course of the past seven months with Syriza... and international stakeholders are and how long it may still take. Honesty towards the electorate instead
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Newsletter 41 - 04/09/2015
on 20 September is small, say less than 2 percentage points, it is difficult to see how one could govern.... As a result, the focus of each party’s campaign over the next couple of weeks may well be on how to edge... picture, failing to answer the key queries we had going into this brief campaign. These include: How
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Newsletter 44 - 25/09/2015
Hard slog starts for Tsipras Despite experience of some, new government still lacks know-how After... in technical expertise, in other words the know-how needed to run the country, just as it was in January... probably generated more questions about Greece’s political future and how stable it will be than it has
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Newsletter 46 - 09/10/2015
his position on how he expects SYRIZA to move forward following the tumultuous last few months... of how the micro-management of the Greek political economy remains the focus of international creditors... “milestones”, as they are officially called, represent a prime example of how the micro-management
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Newsletter 47 - 16/10/2015
given us a flavour of how events are likely to play out in Greek politics in the weeks and months... that changing the man at the top will breathe new life into New Democracy shows just how far the rot has set... headquarters in 2012. How could one forget, for instance, that the supposedly rehabilitated Georgiadis
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EU meets on refugee crisis, bailout review but Greece's immediate fate seems sealed
PoliticsForeign Policybetween European Union members and Turkey will define how the refugee crisis evolved in the short-term... is very clear about how difficult the situation will be to manage on the ground and how ill-equipped... to take suggests that there could be some movement at Monday’s Eurogroup but it is not yet clear how
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Newsletter 77 - 10/06/2016
should be made, as well as how, will rumble on for a while. An issue that is likely to be placed... on the developments that suit their agenda. That is, to some extent, how we ended up with part... of how a lack of accuracy, based on poor comprehension, could be manipulated to suit a particular
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Newsletter 78 - 17/06/2016
forced to defend the EU and how that echoes the way in which Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has had... punch bag for Cameron when he wanted to score political points at home, not too much unlike how... of the total UK population when it is actually around 5 percent. Britons also vastly overestimate how much
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Crisis management policy: the sad lesson of the Greek case
Agora. Background to the 2009/2010 crisis A few figures demonstrate how untenable the situation that Greece had... how unpleasant the economic and social consequences may be, the agreed fiscal tightening in the 2012... is to start by finding out how big a surplus is needed to pay off all the debt, the second point is to find
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