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  1. Lowest income groups in Greece saw wages drop and taxes rise most during crisis

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    Lower income groups in Greece saw their tax burden increase by 337.7 percent from 2008 to 2012... percent from 2008 to 2012, the bottom three income groups saw their earnings from wages sink the most...) was in the 5th decile while those at the top saw their wage income fall by 9.3 percent. It also finds

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  2. Coalition hopeful on pensions, looks to maximise impact of limited relief measures
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    . Defence Minister Panos Kammenos, who has threatened to pull his Independent Greeks (ANEL) party out... after being beaten in the European votes, which is a strong deterrent factor for the SYRIZA leader.... request to scrap the reduction to spending on retirees. Speaking to public broadcaster ERT on Tuesday

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  3. Pressure from government MPs pushes PM towards resolution with farmers

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    “beaten up out there”, while others claimed they were fearful of being “lynched” if they attempted... and police at roadblocks, Justice Minister Giorgos Floridis called the farmer’s leaders “gangsters

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  4. Newsletter 149 -2/02/2018

    Newsletters

    also put the coalition on tenterhooks. SYRIZA’s partner, Independent Greeks (ANEL), is backing... about a possible rift in the coalition after chairing a meeting of the Independent Greeks (ANEL...-ANEL partnership falling apart at this stage. The pull of the completion of the third programme

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  5. More than half of small businesses saw turnover dive by at least 50 pct due to capital controls
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    Economy

    exceeding 70 percent. Overall, nine out of ten companies saw a decline in their revenues with the overall

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  6. The year that Greece (nearly) saw it all
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    Agora

    the eurozone many more. They saw SYRIZA come to power from virtually nowhere a few years earlier

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  7. Newsletter 58 - 15/01/2016

    Newsletters

    , Mitsotakis saw off the competition from his rival Evangelos Meimarakis (52.4 vs 47.6 percent) to win Sunday’s.... Speaking to the Wall Street Journal this week, Labour Minister Giorgos Katrougalos said that SYRIZA has.... Elected just over a year ago, the leftist party saw itself in the vanguard of the backlash against

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  8. Newsletter 85 - 05/08/2016

    Newsletters

    In a non-paper issued on Wednesday, the Finance Ministry clarified that budget revenues had beaten..., even though SYRIZA’s governing partner, Independent Greeks (ANEL), did not back it. This was not a surprise as Greek Orthodox hardliners are among the party’s core supporters. ANEL’s refusal

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  9. SYRIZA's long, slow march
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    Agora

    to the depth of problems facing Greece growing that bit larger. Speaking to the Wall Street Journal last week..., the leftist party saw itself in the vanguard of the backlash against austerity in the eurozone... been tampered with, pensioners or would-be retirees are extremely sensitive to any attempts to make

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  10. Newsletter 68 - 01/04/2016

    Newsletters

    was in 1989, the year that the Berlin Wall fell. Since then, there have been 12 general elections... was beaten again. Despite the economy entering recession, Greece being monitored for its oversized public

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