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Newsletter 129 - 28/07/2017
the corresponding period a year ago. Credit contraction has prevailed in the Greek market... to the brewing dispute between the coalition and some judicial officials, which has been threatening to boil... raised. Outspoken Alternate Health Minister Pavlos Polakis has frequently criticised the judiciary
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Government rounds off legislative activity, Mitsotakis offers alternative on education
PoliticsGreek Politicsgovernment, the health system and education. All three are opposed by New Democracy, which has probably... a substantial say in the running of their universities. The proposed law has also been strongly... that his party has almost completed drafting an alternative bill, which would see universities
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The whole truth and nothing but the truth
Agorarather than fantasy has understood that the case against the former head of the Hellenic Statistical.... The latter charge has repeatedly been proven to be preposterous and based on numbers that do not add up... government has admitted that when it was opposition and made claims about artificially inflated
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Report highlights latest living conditions and demographics in Greece
Society) paints a picture of life in the country and the impact that the prolonged economic crisis has had. Life expectancy has continued to grow for both men and women in Greece, currently standing at 18.7... the quality of those years of life expectancy has deteriorated over the years. Healthy years of life after 65
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Third review agenda becoming more complex for Tsipras
PoliticsGreek Politicsalready has to implement 1 percent of GDP in pension cuts in 2019. Having to raise the equivalent.... The Finance Ministry has been trying to make up for the shortfall through confiscations so... and whether Greece would be able to achieve 1.8 percent of GDP growth this year, as has been predicted
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PM looks for positives as Eurogroup and oil spill cause concern
PoliticsGreek Politicsmeans that the European Commission has now dropped its investigation into 692 million euros of alleged... Tsipras an opportunity to put behind him the difficulties that the government has had in defending... announcement on Monday, the government has sought to smooth things over with the company
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China's footprint in Southeast Europe: Constructing the "Balkan Silk Road"
Agoraas well as Russia. The three contributions are based on a report which the author has written... across Africa to the Middle East and Europe. Beijing's vision of BRI has geo-economic implications... China has begun to establish in the Balkan region even before the official launch of the BRI two years
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Onus on Athens to speed up review after German election result
PoliticsGreek Politicsto prompt European leaders to wait until the new government has been formed, which could take several months. The FDP has taken a hardline stance on Greece during the campaign, with its leader Christian... Bloomberg in August. “Greece gets a debt cut, the money is gone, but for that Greece has to leave
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Newsletter 133
, it appears that a solution has been found – much to the relief of the government in Athens... organisation’s demand for a new set of asset quality reviews (AQRs) to be conducted. The IMF has... for the government to navigate its way through the third review. However, the IMF has also called for the reduction
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Mitsotakis targets working class votes, centre-left struggles with leadership race
PoliticsGreek Politicsclass – a section of society where his party is competing for votes with SYRIZA, which has repeatedly... on Thursday that this was a deliberate choice as the area has been hit hard by unemployment... months. Two recent opinion polls have suggested that SYRIZA has started eating away at the big lead
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