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The EU, the troika inquiry and the big disconnect
AgoraPresident Herman Van Rompuy at the opening ceremony of the Greek presidency last week. “But we all... with the formalities of the presidency. It certainly made Van Rompuy’s assertion that Europe is “a constant
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that apart from further bolstering Greece-USA ties, he also had an opportunity to convey his beliefs... 5-year Mutual Defence Cooperation Agreement between Greece and the USA. He called it “A powerful... not show concern about the escalation in global military spending against the background of recent events
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Eighteen core goods led exports during crisis, NBG study notes
EconomyFeaturesthe crisis years to hold a 2 percent global market share. Across the years of the crisis, basic commodities retained their market share with an average global presence of around 2.5 percent. In the same... Greek export products saw their global market share decline slightly from 0.16 percent in 2009
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China's Footprint in Southeast Europe: Constructing the "Balkan Silk Road"
Agora. Increasingly, southeast Europe is the focus of institutional and global actors who are establishing..., Bosnia and Herzegovina and Hungary pose challenges for EU Delegations, multilateral lenders... with China, in particular in Poland, Romania and Hungary. Is there a risk of white elephants emerging
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Collateral damage in Europe?
Agorathe two global economic superpowers that reverberates through sectors and businesses on the continent..., it is obvious that Germany and France are in a better point of departure than say Greece and Hungary... by centrifugal evidence on the ground. To illustrate: Hungary under the re-elected Prime Minister Victor
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The "great replacement" comes to Greece - how a far-right meme appeared in mainstream politics
Societyas part of global conspiracy of “population replacement”. He cited a UN report which he said proposed... and identitarian movements such as the Le Pen family in France, Italy’s Matteo Salvini and Hungary’s... and recent histories as Italy, Hungary and Greece are able to quickly establish common ground
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Greece and the euro: The flight of Icarus
Agorahas threatened to destroy the euro, pull apart the European Union and cause global financial havoc... in itself but the government was still borrowing cheaply on global markets, which at the point had...’s public debt jumped by 56 billion euros between 2004 and 2007. So, when the global financial crisis
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Economic diversification vital to Greece's post-coronavirus future
Agoraeconomic austerity endured, Greece has put the USA, France and the UK to shame on both a per capita... future, because the reality is that demand global has fallen off an economic cliff. The effect of which.... That being said, there are arguably three global factors influencing the post-coronavirus world: social
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The World Cup, Argentina and Europe’s quest for moral clarity
Agora, militarily, geopolitically, demographically - is slipping, the continent that once defined global... standing, football represents national identity, global visibility and emotional expression in a way... on the global stage was built to a significant extent on its footballing achievements as it won
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Greece falls behind on gender equality due to drop in political empowerment
SocietyGreece has been singled out for its poor performance in the global rankings of the World Economic Forum (WEF) 2021 Global Gender Gap Report. The report measures how far countries have progressed... and society Greece comes closer to parity, and to the global average, on the other dimensions
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