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German elections: An open race to the finish line
Agora(SPD) can be ruled out. Both governing parties have exhausted such an arrangement... such a threesome arrangement can look like is currently the most intensely debated issue of the electoral campaign... the elections there is little to indicate that the CDU and Laschet can reverse their free-fall among
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It's time to say farewell to TINA politics in Germany
Agoraadopt? How can this domestic issue be regulated with the export-oriented car manufacturers? What...? No political party in Germany can avoid answers to these vexing questions. But there is a sense... in Berlin, we can expect a rather different rhetoric and policy substance towards China
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Quo vadis Germany? Sunday's elections leave many questions in need of answers
Agoraat the polls. Credibility and competence are attributes in politics that are hard to attain and can be wasted... the past four years. They do not anymore trigger ideological debates about what can or should... proved correct, was based on the assumption that the candidate who can catch the highest share of her
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Androulakis receives strong mandate for renewal at KINAL
PoliticsGreek Politicsappeal as a moderate and the fact that he is still at an age where he can argue with some credibility, unlike some of his rivals, that he can lead an effort to overhaul KINAL. He was undoubtedly better... that he can no longer take it for granted that his party will dominate when it comes to support
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PM seeks to leave ICU controversy behind as Tsipras ups stakes with snap election call
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat the government does not have the credibility to claim that it can tackle the fifth wave... opinion poll ratings. Also, Tsipras believes that the pandemic is an issue that SYRIZA can now make... of the Greek public is not convinced that ND is doing all that it can to strengthen public healthcare
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Where is Odysseus? Part 5 - Productivity
Agorain that Plan. Productivity. Now that we have employment, in persons, and real GDP through 2023, we can... on productivity (growth) in the long run. Source of employment. Finally, we can ask the data if they offer clues... the results with pessimism, as economies can, and do, rebound, when events settle down into more
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PM mulls more assistance with energy costs through winter
PoliticsGreek Politicslast year that it is acutely concerned about the impact that rising energy costs can have on voters... likely to pay off in political terms as voters can measure the assistance more easily. Speaking over... helped create the necessary fiscal space. The PM repeated his belief that New Democracy can win
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Record FDI flow into Greece raises bar, but is it sustainable?
EconomyFeaturescontribution to the economy? There are several observations we can make based on the composition... and development agency UNCTAD we can get an idea of what portion of investments went into acquiring... can see that acquisitions dominated FDI flows during the tail-end of the crisis, with greenfield
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Transparency concerns emerge among voters as leaders clash over wiretapping
PoliticsGreek Politicspercentage of respondents who feel the government has done what it can, or more, has risen from 37.6 pct... the government is doing all it can to tackle the crisis, while 67 pct think that it is not adopting all the measures that it can. In terms of voting intentions, ProRata has New Democracy on 31 pct
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Tsipras stakes claim for election win despite discouraging poll data
PoliticsGreek Politics, SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras has insisted that a government can be formed after the first vote..., rather than approach them believing there will be two ballots. Only if he can galvanise SYRIZA’s vote... consumption taxes to combat the rising cost of living. Mitsotakis pledges Tsipras’s promises can be seen
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