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Greece and lenders trap themselves over labour reforms
Agorasupports the recommendations made by the eight-member panel of Greek and international experts appointed by Greece and the institutions to examine labour legislation in the country. The panel delivered... of the negotiating parties at sectoral or occupational level - The time extension, the after-effect
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Lenders put spotlight back on pending reforms ahead of second post-MoU review
EconomyProgrammeof the relevant legal framework [...] and taking all necessary actions to this effect.” The most recent... stakes in the systemic banks and the mandate of the selection panel. At the time of the report’s publishing, no progress had been reported on the extension of the mandate of the selection panel. Delays
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Greece and the euro: The flight of Icarus
Agora. Businesses, but mostly the government, soon began increasing wages to counter this effect. Between 2000... would have a destabilizing effect. The prevailing thinking was that current account deficits would... hit a brick wall. It lacked the conviction to make the tough changes in the public sector, to make
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Newsletter 59 - 22/01/2016
having adopted the bailout and agreed to implement it, appears to be having a binding effect. Tsipras...): these were all signposts pointing towards Alexis Tsipras crashing into the wall... to counter the effect of unemployment of around 25 percent, declining wages, non-existent liquidity
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Balance of payments shows shipping on course for bumper year, but economic benefits unclear
EconomyFeaturesto the Wall Street Journal recently noted that while oil sanctions will reduce the opportunities... For the Greek economy the benefits are less clear-cut. The effect of the shipping boom on the balance... billion in 2022. The effect on sea transport quarterly figures is roughly the same, at 25 pct. Overall
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What brought down Golden Dawn?
Societyplayed a part in bringing the party down, but its effect was not straightforward. Rather than causing instant public revulsion, the prosecution had a catalytic effect on the party’s internal cohesion... their representatives on panel shows and even lifestyle programmes stopped featuring them. Technical
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In hindsight it would have been nicer
Agoraon the 5th of June after its contents were leaked by the Wall Street Journal's Matina Stevis, the IMF openly... in the core of the eurozone. In effect, as the IMF describes in various places in its evaluation
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Why did Greece return to bond markets now? Was it the right decision?
Economypercent, banks for 14 percent and pension and insurance funds for 4 percent. The Wall Street.... There could also be a positive subsidiary effect for Greek corporates through a potential sharper
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Samaras seeks vote of confidence and moment of history
AgoraPop quiz: When was the last time Greece held elections at the end of the government’s four-year term? It was in 1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell, F.W. de Klerk started dismantling apartheid...? This time, Samaras is hoping for the opposite effect. By winning the ballot, the prime minister
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Newsletter 8 - 19/12/2014
at it,” wrote the Wall Street Journal in an editorial this week after the prospect of snap elections in Greece stirred concern across the continent. The other damaging knock-on effect from the comments by EU
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