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  1. Greece and the euro: The flight of Icarus

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    , as some of the people in the audience today will know very well. Greece saw joining the euro as part... meant structural factors were overlooked. A period of belt-tightening before euro entry saw Greece’s... hit a brick wall. It lacked the conviction to make the tough changes in the public sector, to make

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  2. More than half of small businesses saw turnover dive by at least 50 pct due to capital controls
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    Economy

    exceeding 70 percent. Overall, nine out of ten companies saw a decline in their revenues with the overall

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  3. The year that Greece (nearly) saw it all
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    the eurozone many more. They saw SYRIZA come to power from virtually nowhere a few years earlier

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  4. Samaras shoots, Samaras scores!
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    cherished. But Giorgos Samaras, the striker without a club, has beaten premier Antonis to the title... that also saw them through the game with Ivory Coast. At a time when Greek society is so deeply divided... in world football by winning the European Championships in 2004, have Greeks poured onto the streets

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  5. Second round of local elections deliver worrying results for PM, glimmer of hope for opposition

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    . However, he was soundly beaten by Dimitris Kouretas, a candidate put forward by centre-left PASOK... on social media. It should also be noted that the Communist Party (KKE) saw its candidates win six... winning seven of Greece’s 13 regional authorities in the first round, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis

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  6. Excess of vaccines in Serbia will go to waste
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    that the practice was stopped on the same day when they saw dozens of buses arriving with employees of public... with French President Emanuel Macron and the recent visit to Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates

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  7. Newsletter 58 - 15/01/2016

    Newsletters

    , Mitsotakis saw off the competition from his rival Evangelos Meimarakis (52.4 vs 47.6 percent) to win Sunday’s.... Speaking to the Wall Street Journal this week, Labour Minister Giorgos Katrougalos said that SYRIZA has.... Elected just over a year ago, the leftist party saw itself in the vanguard of the backlash against

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  8. Tracing the decline of the middle class as parties vie for its votes
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    EconomyFeatures

    , with the exception of the lowest earners who saw their tax increase threefold between 2012-2014 (though from.... Households earning 12,000-16,000 euros saw their tax increased by 21 percent in 2012-2014 and 26 percent... to wall, and that is why professional politicians mostly avoid it, preferring instead to allude

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  9. Possibility of snap elections after third bailout agreed is firmly on Tsipras's agenda
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    the possibility of working with ANEL again after snap elections, Gerovasili said she saw “no reason... (ANEL) has also voiced support this week for Tsipras and possible early elections. Top ANEL official... that there is no way that the electoral law, which awards 50 extra seats to the winning party, will change

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  10. Growth, not just of the economic variety
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    stage. Nevertheless, in the journey along the winding, precipitous road towards better days... the carpet anything that could be interpreted as a boost for the SYRIZA-Independent Greeks (ANEL) coalition.... One of the less obvious ones involves the media finding a role that lies far from the extremes

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