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

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    At first, it looked anything but successful. Both Brussels and Nicosia seemed hopeless, had shot themselves in their feet, steamrollered over taboos, destabilised capital flows - created a mega blunder. Yet the Cyprus Gaffe (or Cyprus Rehearsal, or Cyprus Scare) is successful in having produced one

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  2. Samaras ratchets up tension in clash with SYRIZA over violence
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    produced so far. Twenty people have been questioned in connection to the attack on Hellenic Gold

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  3. The euro debate Greece is not having
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    is that, in the absence of the currency devaluation which automatically makes everything produced domestically cheaper

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  4. Greece and troika: Bailout tranche, funding gap and debt relief still pending

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    the 24th, when Eurostat is expected to confirm that Greece produced a primary budget surplus in 2013

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  5. Industrial production rises for three months in a row for first time since 2007

    EconomyMacroeconomy

    , when 11 of the 12 months produced positive readings. The key drivers for the modest growth

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  6. SYRIZA leads in most age groups, professions but coalition parties dominant among pensioners
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    Greece’s political parties have been looking at the May 25 European election results to understand whether there has been a decisive shift in public opinion that makes a SYRIZA or New Democracy win in a national vote more or less likely. Among the most interesting statistics produced over the past

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  7. 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 that the measure was largely fruitless. The tax rise was introduced in October 2012 with the aim

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  8. UnLuCky for some: Another painful lesson from the euro crisis
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    they produced another mistaken diagnosis. As a result, 18 percent of Greece’s economy evaporated

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  9. To Potami intensifies efforts to mop up disgruntled Greek voters
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    To Potami, the centrist party founded by journalist Stavros Theodorakis in February, has published the closest thing to a manifesto it has produced in the last seven months. Theodorakis set out on Sunday the party’s 21 “governing priorities” after months of discussions within the fledgling movement

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  10. Greek trade deficit widens by 29.4 pct in July as import rate soars

    EconomyMacroeconomy

    in imports by 10.2 percent. The contraction in exports produced the fifth negative reading in the seven

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