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  1. Government acts to prevent energy price shock in move critics say comes too late
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    Following days of speculation, the government is bringing back an emergency levy on electricity producers in a bid to pre-empt skyrocketing bills in August. The measure applies to electricity producers who use natural gas. They will be taxed on windfall profits for the months of July and August

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  2. Farmers dig in as clashes and political tension escalate
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    as a bureaucratic manoeuvre that leaves producers waiting. The government insists that this year’s overall support package will exceed last year’s, and that “honest producers” will ultimately receive

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  3. Farmers’ fury grows as government scrambles for response
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    by 2026, shaped through consultation with municipalities and producers. A new accountability... and the lived reality of producers facing delayed payments, rising costs, and systemic dysfunction

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  4. Cyprus “success” preludes something bigger in European banking

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    blunder. Yet the Cyprus Gaffe (or Cyprus Rehearsal, or Cyprus Scare) is successful in having produced one... - and be willing to pay heavily for them. These products, of course, will be credibly available only

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  5. The euro debate Greece is not having
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    arguments that there is not enough competition in the products markets. However, aside from the fact... is that, in the absence of the currency devaluation which automatically makes everything produced domestically cheaper

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  6. Two years on, Greek government ready to give up on higher heating fuel tax

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    Two years after the government decided to implement a contentious increase of 440 percent in the excise tax on heating oil, data produced by Greece’s General Accounting Office (GAO) has shown... mainly of burning wood and wood products, which had a negative impact on air pollution and quality

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  7. UnLuCky for some: Another painful lesson from the euro crisis
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    and core would be healthy by-products, they claimed. The euro’s nemesis would lie right within... they produced another mistaken diagnosis. As a result, 18 percent of Greece’s economy evaporated

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  8. Newsletter 19 - 13/03/2015

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    to the government’s decision and Tsipras’s accusation of “dirty tricks” against Berlin produced outrage... and Greece exports about 10 percent of its products there, putting among Greece top three foreign markets

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  9. Mentioning the war so we don't have to mention the war

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    and Tsipras’s accusation of “dirty tricks” against Berlin produced outrage. Bild newspaper labelled... exports about 10 percent of its products there. Also, 2.46 million Germans visited Greece last year

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  10. Newsletter 33 - 03/07/2015

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    is unlikely to en masse favour being part of a national emergency government. The other possibility... of customers rushing to purchase not only basic food products but also other imported goods, while.... As this newsletter was being produced, various European governments and international funding institutions

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