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Newsletter 342 - 17/06/2022
-card which is being touted as a measure to combat exploitation by rogue employers. New Democracy... mid- to late-August, partly because he has to make sure that threats, such as wildfires and Greek... to rent or buy homes. During a recent speech at a conference on the demographic challenge facing
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Newsletter 174 -14/09/2018
bailout ended on August 20, concluded on Friday without any definitive answer regarding Greece’s... reportedly set out its position that the measure is not necessary in fiscal terms because the 3.5 percent..., after Greece has submitted its draft 2019 budget and before the revised version has to be tabled
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The case for a general government balance sheet
Agorawill be necessary. Has any political system that the reader is aware of discussed this dynamic of the state? Has... something about it? We suggest that the answer is: no. And a key reason is that political systems.... This occurred because with the Greek crisis, markets did not want to buy more Greek bonds
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Newsletter 66 - 11/03/2016
For Greece, EU–Turkey refugee plan has pros and many cons Greece is the only one of the countries... since mid-August that the ECB did not reduce the ELA cap, which has been lowered 13 times by a total... on border poses biggest problem Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has staked a big part of his future
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Greece most socially unjust country in EU, study finds
Society, a measure of income inequality, was the 24th highest out of 28 and it has the Greece has the second... that in Greece “the crisis has had a devastating effect on poverty and social exclusion... deprivation has more than doubled from 9.7 percent in 2007 to today’s 23.8 percent.” While Greece ranks
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Greece worst-performer in EU 28 for social justice
Society, a measure of income inequality, was the 21st (down from 24th) highest out of 28 and it has the Greece has... consecutive year, a recent study by the Bertelsmann Foundation has found. In its Social Justice Index..., the report found that the gap between Greece and Bulgaria and Romania “has actually widened again, since
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Working-class homes or millionaires' mansions - what's going under the hammer in property auctions?
EconomyFeaturesAthens. A few dozen protesters organised by the anti-austerity “I Won’t Pay” movement and the political... are conducted virtually, on the electronic platform that has been set up for that purpose...-austerity agenda, has lodged a legal complaint against the electronic auctions, arguing
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Where did all the money go?
Agoraas the EFSF has disbursed 141.8 billion with one last tranche of 1.8 billion remaining. The IMF has... total stands at 31.9 billions (18 percent of GDP). These are staggering figures: No other nation has... 11.3 billion euros was used to buy back over 30 billion euros worth of debt in the second debt
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Cooperatives on Cyprus: Why they were treated differently to banks
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Agorain the USA has lessons for Cyprus and parallels to what happened on the island. One of the issues... the government will buy a 99-percent stake in the sector, effectively pausing (some say destroying) its... ownership, as well as a way for local and central government to borrow; in effect the Cypriot answer
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High hopes for Pompeo visit as new row brews over media handouts
PoliticsGreek Politicsto TV channels “to buy their silence or pro-government stance.” The government spokesman has argued... of State has visited northern Greece. Pompeo’s trip comes amid efforts to ease tension between... will show that Greece has the clear support of the USA, a NATO partner, in its fractious ties with its
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