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  1. Adult skills in Greece lacking, indicates OECD survey
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    Society

    and problem solving is considerably smaller than the OECD average, an adult skills audit... are closer to the OECD average for that age group (4.4 and 4.8 percent, respectively) than 16-24 year... and their OECD peers is greater than that of older Greeks with the average in that age group. Around 4.6

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  2. Honey, I shrunk the Greeks

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    was demonized and ridiculed as conspiratorial in spite of the fact that one never needed to look further than... fewer than 9 billion euros. Meanwhile, the troika financed a primary deficit of 10.9 billion in 2010... ahead reminding them of the blatant blackmail from the troika that failing to pass the new measures

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  3. What we've got here is a failure to communicate

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    swap rather than a haircut. Again, anyone observing what key players in SYRIZA had been saying before the elections (rather than taking as gospel the official party line) would have been aware... themselves. For those who joined the game late, though, it appeared that there was a blatant contradiction

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  4. PM stands ground on property auctions despite broad concern
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    by banks. Despite new protest action by notaries, auctions involving individuals, rather than banks... properties worth up to 280,000 euros out of banks’ hands if their owners’ debts are less than 200,000... the prime minister, who added that this was his personal pledge. “They will involve blatant cases

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  5. Greece reaches for its pills
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    Agora

    of this was condensed (if that is the right word for something that last more than 20 hours) into Wednesday’s... laid bare. At the moment, there is no case against any of those accused other than the statements given... of the Greek state” have been followed by, among others, a blatant disregard for the presumption

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  6. Is there (sustainable) growth in Greece?
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    . In 2013 more than 17.5 million tourists visited Greece, numbers not seen since Athens staged..., Greece exported less products and services than it did in 2012. While countries in the eurozone’s... than domestic consumption, export capacity and investment. There is no silver bullet for Greece’s

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  7. Challenging three days of diplomatic talks, protests and budget voting ahead for Greece

    PoliticsForeign Policy

    charged than in the past because of a hunger strike by Nikos Romanos, a friend of Grigoropoulos who... strike more than three weeks ago to convince authorities to allow him to do so. His request has... than 7,000 police on duty and authorities will want to avoid any repeat of the rioting that occurred

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  8. Tsipras delivers SYRIZA's first, tempered message of Greek election campaign
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    than twice the 11.4 billion euros the opposition party claimed. SYRIZA’s programme has four themes... who are earning less than 700 euros per month and scrap the special excise tax on heating fuel... to be more caring than previous governments are true. Restarting the economy SYRIZA suggests the formation

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  9. Why is Europe worrying about SYRIZA?
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    Agora

    stagnation, seem far more important than the loss associated with the debt restructuring. The second key point of SYRIZA's electoral agenda is the abandonment of austerity that, albeit less stringent than... be significantly larger than in the case of restructuring. Then, probably more important, because Grexit would

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  10. Key factors to look out for when Greek election results come in
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    of government could be formed. Margin of victory A small margin of victory (less than around 2... The winning part is expected to get no more than 33 percent of the vote and, therefore, less than 140..., and To Potami. In SYRIZA’s case, though, things are more finely balanced. Despite the split

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