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  1. Key factors in cost-of-living crisis not kept in check
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    Agora

    , from 871.3 million in 2021. Companies in the food sector saw their EBITDA increase by more than 50 pct... is up to 213 pct more expensive than in the EU. For the second time in so many months, Prime Minister... is cheaper than France, Italy, Spain and the UK in nominal terms, but the picture changes once

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  2. Greece in danger of repeating familiar mistakes with Golden Dawn
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    . In the 2009 national elections, Golden Dawn gained less than 0.3 percent of the vote. In June 2012, 6.9... in the political system, this time on solid rather than ramshackle foundations. There can be no room... counterweight to neofascist Golden Dawn. In this environment, right-wing extremism is enabled rather than

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  3. ILO highlights social impact of Greek crisis, proposes change in policy
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    (based on the poverty line fixed in 2008) showed that poverty in Greece has more than doubled... percentage points (pp) to 67.8 percent in 2013 and by more than 10pp to 50.1 percent for inactive... than the rest of the non-employed during the crisis. Among households, large families have suffered

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  4. Whither New Democracy?

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    of the coalition’s failings – is unfit to govern. After all, a party that takes more than three weeks to decide... was trying to sell Plevris’s book or engage in other LAOS conspiracy-mongering? Georgiadis has so far... principles were drafted more than 40 years ago and the party needs to find a new relevance in a rapidly

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  5. One year of SYRIZA

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    for longer than the US was decades ago, the message from those drafting the adjustment programme..., if not more so, than previous agreements. SYRIZA was right to challenge the logic of the bailout... the impression that it wants to engage in regime change but not so that it can alter Greece

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  6. Newsletter 79 - 24/06/2016

    Newsletters

    goods deficit of 1.15 billion, more than offsetting a narrowing of the services’ surplus by 875... million. The weak receipts are due to lower foreign arrivals (down 5.3 percent), more than offsetting.... This more than offset a decline in the services surplus by 307 million. The shrinking deficit

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  7. Thinking outside of the box

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    the government of the time and local businessmen could engage in the exchange of favours, often involving... by the government and more than four channels were already operating, has been questioned. Pappas’s... 200 million euros. The coalition’s view is that allowing more than four channels to operate

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  8. Newsletter 148 -26/01/2018

    Newsletters

    , ultra-nationalist party. He suggested that New Democracy will no longer engage with the government... than his public comments suggest so far and if Mitsotakis’s decision to extricate himself from.... Given that no more than 30 electronic auctions have been conducted in the last month of 2017, the 2018

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  9. Is the cost of Greece's public sector soaring again?
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    EconomyFeatures

    . As such, they are more a reflection of the use of private contracts in the public sector than the number... Secretaries, 29 “Horizontal” Directors General, and more than 60 Sectoral Directors General. The appointees... the direct exercise of political discretion even further down the seniority scale than previously

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  10. SYRIZA sets out strategy for European vote with eye on general elections

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    of discussion with Tsipras’s party, leaving the prime minister to engage with either individuals from... or even earlier than the European Parliament vote if Tsipras decides that his party is on course... opinion polls suggest that the gap between the two parties is much larger than 3.5 points, Georgidis’s

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