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  1. The wrong prescription
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    Agora

    of speculation about how targets will be met. This time the focus is on the structural rather than fiscal side... experiencing Greece rather than the inside of a hotel or meeting room will tell you it is easier to find a pharmacy than a super market or convenience store. The argument that OTC medicines need

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  2. Has SYRIZA's moment gone?
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    Agora

    fund to sell its shares in lenders for less than Greek taxpayers paid for them - it overshadowed... motion to Parliament last November - when little was at stake - rather than in June 2013, when... to their nationalist agenda rather than the national interest, the leftists called for the resignation

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  3. Building activity continues to crumble, falling by 20.7 pct in Feb

    EconomyMacroeconomy

    percent respectively, more than 10 percentage points greater than the country average. Building activity... declined by 24.2 percent, which was slightly lower than the country average. Attica’s share of total... that is three times higher than the GDP contraction over the same period. The evolution of housing loans

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  4. Greece stuck in the long tunnel of political transition
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    Agora

    alliance took just over 8 percent of the vote. It was slightly more than expected but PASOK still attracted about 300,000 voters fewer than it did in the national elections of June 2012. This, along... about SYRIZA dragging Greece back to the dark ages rather than about the government pulling the country

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  5. Long-term jobless rate of 71 pct poses new set of social challenges for Greece

    Society

    -term unemployed, which is those who have been out of work for more than 12 months. Long-term... of Greeks without a job for more than a year ranged between 48 and 55 percent since Greece joined the euro... than a year. This represents over 71 percent of all those without work. Extensive research has

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  6. GSEE report stresses risks on employment and the pension system, outlines burden on wages

    Society

    firms are setting their prices following those of the competition rather than adjusting them... in Greece reached 21,930 euros, lower than that in Slovenia (24,472) and Cyprus (22,740... wages correspond to two thirds of the average of the 15 most advanced EU countries, stand lower than

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  7. Greece sets out plans for settling SME NPLs; mortgages to come

    Economy

    to small businesses (SMEs) and sole proprietors with annual turnovers of less than 2.5 million euros... from the new legislation, which could help them retain more than 350,000 jobs. Very small and small... of total bank claims against the firm. If this is less than 50 percent, than the amount of bank

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  8. Greek primary cash surplus up to 3.1 bln in September but state arrears also rise

    EconomyMacroeconomy

    billion) making up more than half of total, followed by extrabudgetary funds (1.15 billion). The state budget in particular, shows a material improvement by more than 3 billion YoY and 500 million month... mechanisms for 2013 in the larger healthcare provider (EOPYY) rather than a drastic cut in the creation

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  9. The rise of a "Spanish SYRIZA" transform’s country’s politics
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    Agora

    in a TV debate. As a result, Iglesias has 100,000 more followers on Twitter than the Spanish prime minister, Mariano Rajoy, and seven times more than the secretary general of the PSOE, the young Pedro... and is still larger than the sum of both parties’. But that is not what its rivals envy most: Podemos has

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  10. Greek loan rates remained well above euro area average in October

    EconomyMacroeconomy

    a sharper decrease by more than 200 bps. The deviation between the YtD decline of time deposit rates... easing by more than 3 percentage points. Despite the sharp drop, the Greek time deposit rate still remains well above the 1.12 percent average rate in the eurozone and more than 60 bps higher than

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