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  1. Are Independent Greeks and SYRIZA set to become odd bedfellows?
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    elections. Tsipras’s party is polling less than 30 percent at the moment and is likely to require over 40... other option than to explore whether it could work with Independent Greeks, which is still the country

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  2. Unemployment rate remained unchanged at 27.3 pct in August
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    EconomyMacroeconomy

    lower than the historic high of 27.5 percent in May this year. Despite an increase in the number..., the unemployment rate has more than doubled from August 2010 figure of 12.8 percent. At the same time

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  3. Credit origination and transmission: Are Greek banks part of the problem or the solution?
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    Agora

    as NPLs (repayment delayed by more than ninety days) reaching 22.9 per cent. Such staggering NPL... bankers involved in the negotiating process, the offers put on the table have been nothing less than

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  4. Is Democratic Left set to make a shock return to Greece's coalition?
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    than a three-party one. “Given the policy that was followed and our disagreement with it, but also... walked out of the administration rather than support the terms of Greece’s second bailout. DIMAR’s

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  5. The euro debate Greece is not having
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    Agora

    such a sacrifice. There is no gain without pain, goes the argument. However, more than three years... Greece and Germany is about 43 percent and Greece needs the euro to be 25 percent cheaper than its

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  6. Greece leads way in cutting spending on healthcare, finds OECD
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    Society

    Greece made the biggest reduction in its healthcare budget of any OECD country between 2009 and 2011, cutting spending by more than 11 percent, according to a report published on Thursday. The OECD’s... of improving health than spending money once a disease takes root. However, prevention expenditures

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  7. After Merkel, Samaras faces immediate challenges on domestic front
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    called on to pay roughly eight times more in property tax next year than they did in 2009... on foreclosures for homes worth less than 200,000 euros. The latter is a particularly difficult

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  8. Percentage of people in Greece at risk of poverty rises, tops EU list
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    Society

    . However, the threat of hardship also affects those with work. More than 27 percent of Greeks... billion next year – a cut of more than 18 percent. When the element of social exclusion is added

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  9. Time running out for coalition to find formula on home foreclosures

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    with a taxable value of less than 200,000 euros. The temporary measure was introduced to protect households from... ahead of the crisis meant that homes with a taxable value of less than 200,000 euros included

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  10. Building activity in Greece fell by nearly 40 pct in year to September

    EconomyMacroeconomy

    percent in volume. As expected, the bulk of total building activity (more than 90 percent) is related...-performing loan ratio has more than tripled to 24.0 percent at the end of June 2013 from 7.4 percent

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