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Newsletter 391 - 01/09/2023
that more than 160,000 hectares of land have been burned since the start of the year, representing a 270... Observatory of Athens. By Thursday, more than 800 square kilometers of the Dadia National Park.... The prime minister claimed that despite the horrific record Greece had been better prepared than any
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Newsletter 404 - 01/12/2023
that he would not back such legislation and a few weeks ago, reports suggested that no more than 30... of support, the PM will withdraw the bill rather than face outright rebellion by a large section... of directing their fire at New Democracy rather than become embroiled in a battle with their former party
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Post-election blamestorming or Why Harris lost and the Democrats should nominate Oprah
Agoracomic act and less than five years after the storming of the Capitol by an angry mob of MAGA... Clinton, by way of his decades of experience in the Senate. Biden had no such need for Harris other than... answer the question amongst undecided voters prepared to vote for someone other than Trump as to who she
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A fierce political clash over medicine prices in Greece
PoliticsGreek Politicsof medicines being lowered but the legislation has proved far more controversial than its content would.... Of this, about half was spent by the state. This is substantially lower than when the crisis began... is for government spending on medicines to be no more than 1 percent of GDP, or 1.7 billion euros. One
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Greece, the troika and banks' capital needs: A step-by-step guide
EconomyProgrammethat Greek banks would need no more than 6 billion euros. However, there is now speculation... that the IMF has estimated capital needs at 20 billion euros, almost four times larger than... journalists that under the adverse scenario capital needs would rise to 8-9 billion, still less than half
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Samaras shoots, Samaras scores!
Agorasporting achievement can provide anything more than a temporary release. Qualifying from the group stages... but more than a decade later the rise of the racist Front National threatens the legacy of the “Black... of promise rather than the herald of greater things to come. Much like the mountain climber who
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Greeks living in smaller, older, poorer quality homes during crisis, BoG study shows
Societythat more than 60 percent of households (2.55 million) are homeowners without any mortgage... of 7.3 percent, whilst the respective rate for inhabited houses larger than 100 sqm posted an annual... share (4.8 percent) in 2008 was registered from households with income less than 750 euros. This more
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Here's what's in the 2015 draft budget the Greek government has just unveiled
EconomyMacroeconomy, the MoF anticipates the primary surplus will reach 3.6 billion euros (2 percent of GDP), lower than the 2.3 percent included in the Medium-Term Fiscal Strategy (MTFS) 2015-18, but still higher than... than the 2.5 percent incorporated in the MTFS and slightly below the EAP target of 3 percent
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Greek time deposit rate down to 1.88 pct in November, lowest since euro entry
EconomyMacroeconomydeposit rate reached a high of just over 5 percent in June 2012 and has slipped by more than 3... in excess of the euro area average of 1.05 percent and more than 60 bps higher than the respective... a sharp rise of 51 bps posted in October. However, this rate still stands more than 2.5 percentage points
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Sowing the seeds of anomie in Greece
Agoraimplored the party’s lawmakers to be “whiter than white, purer than pure”. Unfortunately, it didn’t... to the hilt. It appears to be a case of wanting to avoid short-term political pain rather than laying... to understand why he did not receive more severe punishment than a one-year suspended sentence. An average
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