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PM pins hopes on conciliatory approach to soften farmers' protests
PoliticsGreek Politicsat the roadblocks set up across the country, but their immediate reactions suggest a softening among some... by seeking to lay the blame on the EU rather than taking responsibility for poor policy design and poor
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Is the Greek green transition running out of power?
Agorathe power sector off its emissions‑reduction trajectory. Greece is set to miss its 2025 power‑sector... is at a crossroads. The choices made now - on infrastructure, market design, and climate ambition
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In hindsight it would have been nicer
Agoradesign – including the non-concessionary interest rates of the eurozone’s loans – the fiscal... require additional financing that no one in the eurozone was willing to put up. In the meantime.... Paradoxically, political instability is often referred to as one of the program’s failures although
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It remains a mystery
Agoradirector Nogueira Batista. Once again, damning revelations about the design of the Greek bailout were mostly met with nonchalance. There was silence from Berlin and Brussels on the IMF leaks. One analysis... argue that a country which was broke, with no one willing to lend it, that had over half of its debt
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It's not the distance; it's the load you carry
AgoraIt is natural to attempt to instill some hope when one addresses a nation that has been battered..., irrespective of any objections one might have about its size and how it was achieved. The table... design and why fiscal multipliers did matter: A reduction of the primary deficit equivalent to 10.5
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ILO highlights social impact of Greek crisis, proposes change in policy
Societyin 2010-12. Nearly one-fifth of those public expenditure cuts was due to reductions in social protection... of unemployment benefits to self-employed, public works programme for long-term unemployed, one-off..., representing one of the steepest increases in poverty among EU countries. Indicators in absolute terms
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Newsletter 36 - 24/07/2015
), one of two prior actions that the Euro Summit statement of July 12 stated should be transposed... banks by another 900 million for one week. A similar decision by the ECB on July 16 was the first.... Some would argue that they have rarely managed to get at least one of the two in the room. In fact
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Justice can't be blind to facts in 2009 deficit case
Agorathe obvious, which is when the problems begin. We had one such example last week when the Supreme Court, following an appeal by one of its prosecutors, decided that the former head of the Hellenic... that has been peddled by all three at one time or another to suit their political ends. Having adopted
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The sale of natural gas firm DEPA and its possible legal complications
Legaland gas supply companies. In the event of the exit of one of the current shareholders of the gas supply... one month to complete. Then, the two sides will still need to agree on a price, before... & Associates: M&A (www.metaxaslaw.gr) is one of the leading law firms in Greece and regarded by all
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National Bank first to test market waters in post-election afterglow
Economythe agenda. National Bank of Greece is one of the institutions that isn’t waiting around in the post..., the preferred course of action will be to prioritise one or even both of the plans — from the Bank..., which would have to sign off on any plan. If the government wanted to design a plan from scratch rather
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