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IMF examines where programme went wrong, what lessons were learnt
EconomyProgrammeprojections, largely due to lower growth and deflators, while unemployment was much higher than originally... and the OSI, public debt recorded a relatively modest immediate decrease to 305 billion euros (160 percent... the sustainability assessment around the gross financing needs (GFN) metric rather than a specific debt
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Will the real men of unity please stand up?
Agorarather than joke. After all, would humorous references about the way that politicians from other... to the “troika” of lenders, rather than the “institutions” mentioned in official documents, knowing this would.... “It is this egotism motivated by nationalism that disconcerts me more than anything else today,” he told
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The flag of permanent defeat
Agoraa day longer than Antonis Samaras (951 days), almost 200 more days than George Papandreou (766... cannot give a convincing interpretation regarding what the last 2.5 years have been about. Rather than... government in the world could be condemned for being more focussed on holding on to power rather than
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BoG reveals figures for repatriation and banknotes returning to banking system
EconomyBankinginflow of 430 million, which is lower than the respective figure of 560 million recorded in the two-year... banknotes, the monthly repatriation of funds worth 470 million over the last 17 months was more than... in the July 2015 – November 2016 period stood at 180 million, which is substantially higher than
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Newsletter 291 - 02/04/2021
for more than a day before they could be placed in an ICU bed. The public appear divided... February 2020. However, Markit noted that the rate of expansion was only marginal, and slower than... in the form of grants, 6 billion euros will be given over to the Green Transition – one of four pillars
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Off the isles of Greece
Agorathis into account, though, nothing can excuse treating the people who arrive here as anything less than... anything less than this is to demean this tragic event. Even so, this week’s events leave a feeling that we have surrendered much more than the 12 lives engulfed by the Aegean. Like Xerxes in Byron’s poem
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The institutional weakness poisoning Greek politics
Agoraare published online each year but in reality they are just a catalogue of each member’s assets rather than... voters that it is straightening up its act. The checks uncovered less than 10 cases in which anything untoward was found, suggesting the whole process was nothing more than a sop. Karatzaferis
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Challenging three days of diplomatic talks, protests and budget voting ahead for Greece
PoliticsForeign Policycharged 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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Newsletter 17 - 27/02/2015
of a rebellion from his MPs. It is unlikely that more than a handful would oppose the government... SYRIZA’s pledge to show greater respect for Parliament and the democratic process than previous... business investment. Additional potential factors of uncertainty involve lower than expected growth
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Tsipras raises debt relief at UN but refugee crisis may prove more pressing issue
PoliticsForeign Policyrather than debt relief or attracting investment. Refugee crisis Tsipras mentioned the refugee crisis... by the fact that, according to IOM, less than 34,500 thousand people arrived in Greece by sea during the host of last year. This was less than one fifth of the total number of arrivals in Europe
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