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Who’s afraid of Angela Merkel?
Agoraa Merkel trademark that will not be as clear as one would expect after the elections. Some concessions... been mentioned many times in the election campaign. On the one hand, Merkel offered to continue her
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Greek Manufacturing PMI eased in September but remains close to a 44-month high
EconomyMacroeconomyone month earlier. Accordingly, September data pointed to a sharp and accelerated decrease... in the manufacturing sector dipped from August’s recent high to only a modest rate, and one that was the weakest
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A quarter-pounder democracy
Agora. If we thought that this had been rectified in one fell swoop with the prosecution of Golden Dawn’s... to extract incomes and wealth from one subset of society [the masses] to benefit a different subset
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Ex-minister's jailing a boost for faltering sense of justice
PoliticsGreek Politicsnetwork of offshore companies and property deals. The 74-year-old was one of PASOK’s co-founders... will not rectify this overnight but if his prosecution proves to be just one strand of a multi-pronged
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For Stournaras, it's out of the frying pan and into the heating oil
PoliticsGreek PoliticsWith winter approaching, the subject of heating oil has become somewhat of a burning issue in the coalition government. One of the more contentious fiscal measures of the last three years... the public that it is reducing taxes, not just raising them. One only has to look at the time
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Volunteers try to fill void left by retreating Greek state
SocietyOne of the most worrying aspects of the crisis has been that the financial constraints on the state and its ever-decreasing role in a number of areas, such as social welfare, healthcare and urban...) is one of the organizations that has attracted most attention over the last couple of years as it uses
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Rare moment of unity as MPs agree to stop Golden Dawn’s state funding
PoliticsGreek Politicsis one of the few times since the Greek crisis began that SYRIZA has voted with the government.... This did not stop two SYRIZA deputies from failing to back the amendment and one voting for it under
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Coalition agrees policy framework: Purpose unclear, impact doubtful
PoliticsGreek PoliticsSixteen months after one-time rivals Antonis Samaras and Evangelos Venizelos put aside their differences to form a coalition government, the two have agreed on a policy framework..., the policy framework drawn up last year by the three parties put one goal above all others: Renegotiation
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Greece trying to lay 'phantom' pensions to rest
SocietyOne of the main problems the Greek state faced at the start of the crisis was putting right the obvious public administration inefficiencies that had become an undue burden on the country’s finances... has begun, although it promises to be a lengthy one due to the backlog of cases in Greek courts
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A summit of little substance
Agoraone can draw from this Summit regarding the future of the EMU, the relationship between Paris... of domestic politics and European policy-making. Even if no one says this explicitly, many
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