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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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Newsletter 31 - 19/06/2015
moderate outflows of around 2.9 and 1 billion, respectively. More than 70 percent of total withdrawals... get a better deal than if the negotiation focuses only on fiscal targets and adjustment measures..., spending miss targets Greece’s budget execution showed that the 5-month primary surplus more than doubled
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Will the Covid-19 crisis undermine the EU Green Deal? A view from Europe's periphery
Agoradiscourse and reality becomes more than obvious. Particularly on the funding front - absent a strong... are likely to undermine, rather than catalyze, the EU Green Deal particularly in the Eurozone’s southern... with it. Under this scenario the idea of a green recovery would consist in little more than wishful
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Crisis management policy: the sad lesson of the Greek case
Agoraworse than necessary. This is particularly evident in relation to the 2015 agreement, which was reached..., this opportunity was instead missed and the public deficit problem was even aggravated by pursuing... that the unemployment problem had been vastly underestimated, as the effect on economic activity
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Montenegro's vaccination adventure: Lord, bless us with good health
Agorain February more than 150 people died as a result of COVID-19. Another infamous record was broken on March 8... focusing on politics for more than half a year. At the end of August, for the first time in 30 years... more telling than this is the fact that there was absolutely no interest of the public and the media
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