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When the refugee crisis met the bailout review
Agoraand other capitals. This type of rhetoric has been set aside, thankfully. Instead, Athens’s focus has mostly.... It is not clear if this is the deterrent, though, or whether the institutions feel that if Alexis Tsipras’s... Greece’s situation is due to the additional refugee crisis which is a major challenge but its interest
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Optimism for Cyprus solution abounds but talks at delicate phase
PoliticsForeign Policythat the EU is holding out high hopes for a successful conclusion to the island’s reunification talks....” Apart from speaking in Cyprus’s Parliament and holding talks with Cypriot President Nicos... politician made a note of disentangling the Cyprus talks from Turkey’s discussions with the EU
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Club Med in Washington
Agoratrepidation in their cabin bags. Their anxiety was justified. Let’s illustrate why. Finance... percent. More specifically, it argued that the eurozone’s mix of low investment capacity, continuous... is Portugal. Trouble is on the horizon in Lisbon. Portugal’s sovereign debt is currently rated below
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If you think it's bleak for Greece now, wait until tomorrow
Agora(DSA) last week, its gloomy projections regarding the unsustainability of Greece’s debt drew all... economy’s long-term growth prospects. The Fund outlines these details in a dedicated box within... the country’s present and future, its assessment deserves to be considered. The IMF assesses Greece’s
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Paddling with a wooden spoon
AgoraLast Tuesday’s bitty Eurogroup and its inconclusive outcome have provided room for numerous... of smart diplomacy, iron will and the benefit of representing the eurozone’s economic powerhouse... Tuesday’s meeting in Brussels, the International Monetary Fund issued a new debt sustainability
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Uncomfortable parallels: The Greek and British referendums
Agora, there are a lot of parallels between Greece’s referendum last July and the June 23 vote in the UK... critic AA Gill in a recent Sunday Times article. “It’s snorting a line of the most pernicious... in Greece, many politicians appealed to some supposed idyllic moment in the country’s past, when
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Fool Britannia
Agora. The disintegration of Britain’s political system over a few hours, following a victory for the Leave... they had no plan for what to do next. To cap it all, Johnson’s Leave campaign colleague, Michael Gove... of the Conservative Party, blocking Boris’s own bid. Johnson is an admirer of ancient Greek statesman
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Greece's public healthcare in a muddled and troubled state
EconomyFeatures-employed insured with the country’s social security system. However, plummeting government spending and rising unemployment have led to the country’s public healthcare landscape has taken a heavy beating. Greece’s healthcare system, like much of its social structures, went on a spending spree in the pre
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Parliament will not probe 2015 bailout negotiations but issue unlikely to disappear
PoliticsGreek Politicsinquiry into last year’s protracted negotiations between the SYRIZA-led coalition and Greece’s lenders... the motion (brought by the conservative party) for MPs to investigate last year’s events. A total of 96... that the small centrist party has supported the government, following last week’s vote on the new electoral law
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Factionalism rears its head in build-up to SYRIZA's congress
PoliticsGreek PoliticsSYRIZA’s many sides, as well as its sometimes complex inner workings, were highlighted this week... that are not in keeping with SYRIZA’s ideology, the leftist grouping is still prone to being unsettled by issues.... The contradictions did not end there, though. SYRIZA’s largest faction, the 53, also criticised the raids
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