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Newsletter 100 - 16/12/2016
moved up a notch again on Wednesday when the European Stability Mechanism revealed that it has put... Tsipras last week. The ESM said the debt relief process has been put on hold as the institutions.... Tsipras also managed to put New Democracy in an uncomfortable position. The conservatives had
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Will the Covid-19 crisis undermine the EU Green Deal? A view from Europe's periphery
Agora2021-2030). It is important to put these figures into perspective: as many observers have already noted... the 2020s. As a former adviser to (then economy minister) Emmanuel Macron recently put it, under... damaged. It is highly unlikely that these member-States will be able or willing to put together
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Parliament will not probe 2015 bailout negotiations but issue unlikely to disappear
PoliticsGreek Politicsclaimed that Varoufakis had put him in charge of a team with the “delicate task” of preparing a plan... central bank and ensuring law and order. Galbraith, seeking to put to bed suspicions that Varoufakis... Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis and US economist James Galbraith, who served as his adviser
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From Berlin to Brexit
Agorathe decades. It was, as Jeremy Cliffe put it in his Bagehot column in The Economist, “easily one of the most... about what consequences it could have. He put his attempt to establish control over his party ahead... market economists in the UK, for instance, indicated that the anti-EU sentiment tended to be bigger
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This is where the last few days have left Greece and lenders
Agoradifficult measures, ones that could put its slim parliamentary majority at risk, and needs a positive... message to put out at home. But the reality is that Greece will have to produce large primary surpluses for many years to come, which will continue to put pressure on its economy and citizens, while
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Newsletter 398 - 20/10/2023
was soundly beaten by Dimitris Kouretas, a candidate put forward by centre-left PASOK and supported by main... within its own ranks. Despite the defiant spin put on the results, the outcome was a chastening one... that this sense of malaise does not set in as it will put his government on the back foot, perhaps
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Eurozone periphery condemned to low wages, demand, EC study suggests
Economyconsolidations that put more emphasis on the expenditure side. The paper also casts doubt...A research paper by an economist at the European Commission’s Directorate General for Economic.... However, economist Jan in ‘t Veld is clear in his criticism on the euro area opting to simultaneously
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Tsipras hopes to muddle through, avoid internal clash for now
PoliticsGreek Politicscontinues to look for a way to avoid, or at least put off, confrontation with dissenting voices in his... in 2013. SYRIZA continues to be split over how the government should progress. Marxist economist Yiannis... agreement. Fellow economist, and MP, Kostas Lapavitsas continues to publicly advocate a euro exit
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Lenders provide words of support and warning regarding debt talks
PoliticsGreek Politics. “This is the only way for Greece to return to the market and to put its economy on a sustainable footing.” This opinion was echoed by the ESM’s chief economist Rolf Strauch in a speech in Athens. Strauch... or what kind of compromise could emerge. Speaking at an Economist conference in Frankfurt, Finance
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Moments to remember from the euro crisis
Agorabeing put in place. He suggested that before the crisis, longstanding current account imbalances..., leading The Economist to label him “intransigent” in May 2011 and accuse him of putting... years later, The Economist wrote about Trichet’s “poison pen” and argued that the note strengthened
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