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Troika inquiry: talk to the organ grinder, not the monkey
Agorasavings over investment. This reflected a falling labor share and rising profit share of German GDP..., and domestic investment fell behind savings. German banks lent the difference – which rose to over 7 percent... economy if its bad foreign lending gets bailed out by the taxpayers of economies to which German money
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Newsletter 17 - 27/02/2015
, including German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, indicate that there is no intention... to the persistently blunt message being broadcast from German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble. After... how Varoufakis would explain the agreement in Athens, the German politician has maintained extreme
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Newsletter 19 - 13/03/2015
is: when was the right moment for Greece to raise this issue?” Athens-based German historian Hagen Fleischer, one of the leading experts on the subject, told the Irish Times. “From a German perspective... to seize German state-owned property in Greece, such as the Goethe Institute, as compensation for victims
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Newsletter 20 - 20/03/2015
Tsipras’s main task. His talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President François.... This Monday, the Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will fly to Berlin to meet the German Chancellor... immediately accepted the invitation. Following his interview in the German weekly Der Spiegel on 7
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Tsipras seeks tone of cooperation and persistence at Merkel talks
PoliticsGreek PoliticsA lengthy meeting between Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and German Chancellor Angela Merkel... reparations directly with a German Chancellor in public, arguing that it was a moral issue, not a financial one. He also called German authorities to help Greece investigate the Siemens cash-for-contracts
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Newsletter 51 - 12/11/2015
politics (Photo: Kleinschmidt/MSC). The death of former German chancellor Helmut Schmidt this week... what was then the European Economic Community in 1981. The late German politician’s part... to the one held for Germany after the Second World War. He also accused German Chancellor Angela Merkel
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Helmut Schmidt, Greece and a valuable legacy for Europe
AgoraThe death of former German chancellor Helmut Schmidt last week sent ripples of sadness across... Economic Community in 1981. The late German politician’s part in this process is usually overshadowed... the Second World War. He also accused German Chancellor Angela Merkel of lacking “helpfulness and sympathy
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Doubts over IMF role in Greek bailout becoming source of rising tension
PoliticsGreek Politicswas seized upon by German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble on Tuesday following the ECOFIN in Brussels. He... organisation will continue to be part of the quadriga. The German minister expressed concern about... of play. The tone of the German finance minister’s comments, though, were in keeping with the war
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Newsletter 77 - 10/06/2016
involve the ratification by five national parliaments, including the German Bundestag that approved... political purpose. First, local media picked up on a story in German daily Handelsblatt regarding... enough to receive its next bailout tranche. The German paper reported that there was a possibility
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After the tweetstorm - Tracing the course of #IStandWithGreece
Agora, with German, French and eventually Italian also featuring prominently. The tweets make heavy use..., authors a blog registered to a German internet address, with Italian themes, writing primarily... “with the exception of regionalism”. Several tweets follow in German. Many are illustrated with historical
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