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  1. Farmers roll back into Athens as government fails to resolve long-running dispute
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    tensions – which had been fuelled by the OPEKEPE subsidy scandal - never truly eased. A meeting earlier

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  2. Government bets on big energy headlines while pledging discipline at the pump
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    with foreign energy majors are truly in the national interest. The opposition has also drawn attention

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  3. In hindsight it would have been nicer

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    The Greek bailout was primarily designed to protect the rest of the eurozone from contagion in its banking sector. It's basically as simple as that. International Monetary Fund managing director Christine Lagarde admitted as much in an interview on Monday. “The choice was made to make sure

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  4. Who’s afraid of Angela Merkel?

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    Angela Merkel triumphed in the German elections. The 41.5 percent gained by the CDU/CSU put her in the same league as her conservative predecessors, Konrad Adenauer and Helmut Kohl. While most of Europe hoped for a different outcome, Germans opted for Mutti (mummy) Angela. Her simple message

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  5. Are Independent Greeks and SYRIZA set to become odd bedfellows?
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    with SYRIZA could alienate the right-wing supporters backing Kammenos’s party. There is no simple

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  6. Credit origination and transmission: Are Greek banks part of the problem or the solution?
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    in SAREB. None of the aforementioned options are simple to implement in Greece. Apart from

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  7. A fierce political clash over medicine prices in Greece

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    , the opposition party was not able to give a simple and convincing response about why it would not back

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  8. Spain’s economic recovery languishes amid graft scandals

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    reinvigorated in such a way that a simple cancellation of the referendum would irrevocably deepen the wounds

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  9. Troika returning to Greece but key decisions still months away
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    this debt relief will take. A simple extension of maturities and lowering of interest rates, as has

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  10. Should Greece really ask for a debt haircut?

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    There are very good reasons for arguing in favour of Greek public debt undergoing a haircut. Unfortunately, there are also some reasons for wondering whether things are not that simple and that a haircut might not be an ideal solution. One good reason for a writedown of Greek public debt

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