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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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Greek employers struggling to fill positions with right people
Society. A lack of experience on the part of applicants represented the biggest single problem for employers... on the part of applicants was the biggest problem. Some 16 percent of employers said they faced a lack... for require collective and systematic action to tackle the problem, Koussia said it was pointless
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Obama ends with big picture amid dwindling hope
Agora? Not much. What did it get from Barack Obama’s brief stay in Athens? Probably more than it expected... the eurozone has dealt with the crisis, and continues to approach the problem in Greece. Firstly, he... partners satisfied. “…this cannot be viewed just as a Greek problem, this is an international problem
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Coalition survives no-confidence vote over name deal but sees majority trimmed
PoliticsGreek Politicsahead of Saturday’s vote, opposition leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis suggested that the main problem... administration has achieved a better compromise than any of its predecessors were poised to agree. He... problem is not that it is a bad agreement,” he said. “Its problem is that we have an agreement, a good
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PM takes to stage in Davos as migration worries persist at home
PoliticsGreek Politicsmultiple pledges to tackle the problem have fallen by the wayside. Less than a year ago, SYRIZA... problem of dealing with refugee flows was troubling his government back home. In Switzerland... that ND underestimated the magnitude of the problem and has no been forced to backtrack. Either way
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Greeks see corruption as rife, going unpunished in new survey
Society. The results found that 72 percent of Greeks agreed that corruption was a very important problem... they view graft as a "quite important" problem. This means that an overwhelming 98 percent of all those... that corruption was a problem in the private sector. Greeks also considered the chance of corruption occurring
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Ex-PMs engage in public spat, highlighting contrasting approaches to Turkey
PoliticsForeign Policyto Cyprus’s accession due to this problem, which remains unresolved. The Greek government also managed to turn Greek-Turkish differences into an EU-Turkey problem, meaning Turkey’s accession could only..., as it seems now, wished no more than to have a special relationship with the Union. The other
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Our most popular stories in 2014
Agora, the government is estimated to have collected more than 2.5 billion euros from Greek taxpayers... a number of households are living in their shops. On home ownership, the study displayed that more than..., whilst the respective rate for inhabited houses larger than 100 sqm posted an annual drop of 3.6
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