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For better or worse: Greece's bailout exit deja vu
Agoratax rates and investment spending if targets were beaten. All crisis governments had first-hand... a fiscal gap of 1.1 percent of GDP, or 2 billion euros. This meant that if Samaras wanted to close
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Parliament starts process of probing Greek debt and MoUs - further division likely
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe 2004-2009 period, when New Democracy was in power. New Democracy wanted the probe extended to 1981, when... the inaugural sessions of Parliament’s “Truth Committee for Public Debt” over the weekend. The panel was set... will be responsible for the Greek panel’s scientific coordination. A brief trailer advertising the committee’s work
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SYRIZA seeks to exploit ND's faltering handling of coronavirus crisis
PoliticsGreek Politicsafter a member of the panel of experts resigned. Spyros Zakynthinos, a pneumonology professor, stepped... on the panel from outside. He cited the example of the experts being forced to base their decisions on fewer Covid-19 tests than they would have wanted. Zakynthinos went on to argue that a second lockdown
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Parties at loggerheads over inquiry into media handouts
PoliticsGreek Politicsspokesman) has begun its proceedings but the ND deputies, who form a majority on the panel, rejected... as part of the inquiry. SYRIZA had wanted Stelios Petsas, now the alternate interior minister, former... people. The panel includes people from various walks of life, including academics based in Greece
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Newsletter 350 - 09/09/2022
. Parliament launched its inquiry into the affair and the first few days of the panel were marked... for witnesses who should be called to answer questions. The opposition parties wanted Mitsotakis... result in each party represented on the panel submitting its own report. Also, given the governing
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PASOK, SYRIZA leaders show little appetite for touted alliance of progresives
PoliticsGreek Politicswith whatever the panel decides or face the prospect of expulsion. This was interpreted as a sign... in a way to “send a message” to the government. Of those, 40 wanted to show their frustration... ultrantionalist Greek Solution said they did so because they wanted to express their disapproval
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Eighteen core goods led exports during crisis, NBG study notes
EconomyFeatures. These include aluminium, marble, olive oil, olives and feta. The second category consists of what... percent of the market share. In terms products such as marble, cement and aluminium, a strategy
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Uncertainty lingers after Tsipras and opposition leaders find no common ground
PoliticsGreek Politicsargued that he wanted Greece’s political leaders to achieve a common position on the refugee issue... a parliamentary panel discussing the constitutional review. On pensions, New Democracy, PASOK
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Newsletter 84 - 29/07/2016
the closure of public broadcaster ERT in June 2013 was rekindled. One of the panel’s participants, New... closed the state broadcaster because they wanted to silence it rather than for fiscal reasons
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Thinking outside of the box
Agorathe closure of public broadcaster ERT in June 2013 was rekindled. One of the panel’s participants, New... closed the state broadcaster because they wanted to silence it rather than for fiscal reasons
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