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The tie that binds
Agorathat the huge fiscal consolidation was harming the economy, his recipe for overcoming this problem..., unpaid taxes continue to pile up and have passed the 100-billion-euro mark, more than 20 percent... fortunes. At the same time, Thursday’s agreement does not settle Greece’s debt problem. In terms
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Debt relief or debt restructuring for Greece?
Agorato the conclusion of the first economic adjustment programme more than 85 percent of Greece’s sovereign debt.... It took no less than European Commissioner for Employment Laszlo Andor of Hungary to get... output in 2013 would surpass by more than 20 percent where Greece’s debt-to-GDP ratio stood in 2010
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A moment to reflect, not celebrate
Agorabe a moment for reflection, rather than celebration. The last eight years have been marked by avoidable... with a comforting sense of detachment, rather than an actual country with real people and flawed politicians facing... a soap opera playing out on their TV screens rather than a series of events causing real upheaval
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Study sheds light on different experiences, aspirations of new and long-term migrants
Societybelieve that the presence of immigrants in Greece doesn’t solve the country’s demographic problem... believe that the flow of refugees to Greece is a permanent rather than temporary issue. Perceptions... country rather than a destination. The majority of them expressed no intention of staying in Greece
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Where is Odysseus? Part 6 - Potential real GDP
Agorathat the future population is expected to be slightly bigger than suggested in the data from 2018. Consequently, in blog 17, the working-age population, on baseline, was also projected to be larger than initially thought in 2018. In blog 18, we found a slightly larger labor force than was assumed in 2018
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Erdogan's Hagia Sophia move adds to complexity, uncertainty of Greek-Turkish relations
PoliticsForeign Policy, bilateral cooperation between EU-Turkey on the refugee/migrant issue and developments related to Libya... violation of the arms embargo in Libya, according to a high-ranking EU official. There is a growing... by Turkey and the Turkey-Libya memorandum, Dendias said that “Greece has capable armed forces
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Greece signs EEZ deal with Egypt, aiming to halt Turkey's designs
PoliticsForeign Policydeal signed last November between Ankara and the UN-recognized government in Libya’s Tripoli. Even... within the Turkish continental shelf” and that the agreement also violates Libya’s maritime rights... Libya maritime deal. Kastellorizo and the eastern part of Rhodes were left out, as was widely expected
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Greece working on plan for multilateral talks in East Med
PoliticsForeign Policyin the proposal are Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, Egypt and Libya. The conference does not include Israel... to be Ankara’s refusal to participate in any forum that excludes Turkish Cypriots, while Libya... from Libya to represent both factions. Whether conditions on the ground make this feasible remains
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Helmut Schmidt, Greece and a valuable legacy for Europe
Agoraof leaders past rather than a measured assessment of what they offered. Like all politicians, Schmidt... cultivated prejudices and phobias rather than stand against them. This is where Schmidt’s contribution is so valuable. He was more resolute than to be shoved one way and then the other by developments
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Search for solutions, not scapegoats in EU's refugee crisis
Agoraa whole new type of problem. There were more than 850,000 arrivals in 2015, only 414 of whom have been... year (more than 850,000 arrived in Greece compared to 43,500 in 2014 – an almost 20-fold increase... on trying to find ways to pass around responsibility rather than to come up with a plan to respond
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