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Doubts over IMF role in Greek bailout becoming source of rising tension
PoliticsGreek Politics, Schaeuble’s comments seem to be prompted by more than just concerns about whether the Washington-based....” The Greek reply singled out the German Finance Ministry rather than the country’s government as a whole
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Car sales resume double-digit growth rate in Oct with 15.2 pct rise
EconomyMacroeconomy. The number of road motor cars posted a sharp drop by more than 30 percent per annum in the 2009-2012 period. Since then, a modest rise by 1.3 percent was recorded in 2013 and a strong rebound by more than
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Unemployment rate fell further to 24 pct in Q3 on seasonally increased employment
EconomyMacroeconomyof ‘long-term’ (more than 1 year) unemployed remained well below the 900,000-mark for the second quarter... for a job) slightly fell by less than 1,000 to 100,700 in Q3 after increasing in the preceding three
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Greece and the IMF: An everlasting love-hate relationship
Agoraissues, the fund is a harder taskmaster than the European lenders. “The fund’s position... intervention in the country’s debt rather than just tinkering around the edges. The fiscal and economic
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No one has won in Spain
Agorathe result of the elections was completely different than in the rest of Spain. The PP is bordering... a simple majority; more yeas than nays. But both PP and PSOE have enough nays to prevent either of them
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The year that Greece (nearly) saw it all
Agora. Negotiations with the eurozone took on a much more confrontational tone than ever before, resulting... than this Jun 27 Politics The main political scenarios ahead for Greece should it reach a deal
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Greece stands on fault line between vicious and virtuous cycles for 2016
AgoraTsipras himself, that Greece would pay pensions and salaries rather than the IMF if it was forced... dropped to a mere 77 million as more than 2.5 billion had been sapped in the previous twelve months
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Unemployment edges down to 24.5 pct in Oct, lowest since May 2012
EconomyMacroeconomyrates of more than 27 percent, while the unemployment rate in the Aegean remains by far the lowest... as the economy is expected to enter into a deeper recession than in 2015. However, the Finance Ministry
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Current account deficit at 1.22 bln in Nov, down 18.6 pct
EconomyMacroeconomybalances by 302 and 61 million respectively more than offsetting a fall in the services’ surplus by 193... billion euros more than offsetting a drop in the services’ surplus by 1.09 billion and deterioration
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SYRIZA's long, slow march
Agoraaccepted that our influence on the long-term dynamics is going to be slower than expected,” he told..., will be loath to accept anything more drastic than what it has proposed. At last week’s Eurogroup, though
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