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  1. Underlining stress on Greek society, suicide rate doubled in first years of economic crisis

    Society

    Since 77-year-old Dimitris Christoulas put a gun to his head a few metres from Greek Parliament and shot himself in April 2012, suicides gained a prominent and painful place in the narrative of the Greek crisis. In a suicide note, Christoulas decried the government and its austerity policies. His

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  2. An issue of statistical significance in Greece

    Agora

    than 1 percent of GDP in 2009. To put things in perspective, the only period in the last 20 years

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  3. Honey, I shrunk the Greeks

    Agora

    the debt restructuring was put on the table, vast majority of the eurozone and the IMF’s financing

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  4. Ring of Fire

    Agora

    with tear gas and batons on the other, too many lives have been put at risk. So, ahead

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  5. Polls show Golden Dawn support dropping after murder, New Democracy profiting most

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    by a Golden Dawn member. The Alco poll put New Democracy first on 21 percent and SYRIZA second on 19.2 percent

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  6. Who’s afraid of Angela Merkel?

    Agora

    Angela Merkel triumphed in the German elections. The 41.5 percent gained by the CDU/CSU put her in the same league as her conservative predecessors, Konrad Adenauer and Helmut Kohl. While most of Europe hoped for a different outcome, Germans opted for Mutti (mummy) Angela. Her simple message

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  7. Sharper drop for retail sales in July points to lingering recession

    EconomyMacroeconomy

    understanding is that Greek households prefer to put the little spare money they have in their banking accounts

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  8. Greek centre-left in search of new roots with own Olive Tree alliance

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    that the Greek version will also grow into a significant force. The proclamation has not been put

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  9. Ladies and gentlemen, please fasten your seat belts
    Photo by Can Esenbel [www.mundanepleasure.com]

    Agora

    at a Eurogroup meeting last November, will be put off until after May’s European Parliament elections

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  10. Words will always hurt

    Agora

    our thoughts and actions. To put it another way, if those in authority continue to spout words

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