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Greece: After a deal, work on a solution
Agorato implement. The crucial deadline is now June 30th, when Greece promises to pay €1.6 billion..., not just a deal. The politics of a deal The key political question is: can Tsipras, Merkel... of a Schäuble-Merkel split are overblown. Schäuble can play the hawkish finance minister, which boosts his
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Newsletter 32 - 26/06/2015
. The institutions also propose increasing the healthcare contribution pensioners pay from their main... Minister Alexis Tsipras would face is whether he can ensure that a deal passes through Parliament... such as pensions. There can be an argument over the impact of the measures Tsipras proposed, which
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The enemy within
Agorathat the “haves” pay their fair share and that the cost of adjustment does not fall mostly... the country as a whole? How can someone in power lump people together in such generalised categories? Isn’t... to believe that it can regain its working class stripes by highlighting the cleavages in Greek society
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Greek leaders' contrasting visions all a blur
Agoracan expect as the next elections (which have to be held by the autumn of 2019) move closer... creditors have consistently taken when Athens tells them that it can reduce evasion. Their stance has... closely linked to Greece’s debt servicing. Athens has consistently been told that it can use any
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Going for Growth: What next for Greece's economy and banks?
Agoraproperty trades at a -46.3 percent real terms discount from its peak[5] and the sector can only recover...]. If growth is the medicine to end austerity and improve wealth, then how can Greece be so amazing.... Firstly, Greek shipping firms pay no direct tax to the public purse. Secondly, despite the largest
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We can't ignore population shifts within the European Union
Agoracan become in the future. In doing the research for these two books, I came upon an intriguing..., which has low fertility rates and is advanced in aging. The data can change and new projections emerge..., to bring home the divergence in demographics within the EU/Europe, one can divide the continent in two
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A closer look at Greece's Q3 2023 national accounts
Agora. Since this summarizes the whole economy, it is helpful to see what the data can tell us. In brief...—to help see the longer-term underlying evolution of productivity. We can make some observations: Trend... and necessary, but we may have to pay for it now, rather than borrow against a supposed future additional
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Who pays property tax and how much revealed by Greek authorities
EconomyMacroeconomy) of 2016 ENFIA stems from 7.37 million individuals that would have to pay a total amount of 2.71... were due to a pay a slightly higher amount of 2.83 billion. In addition, 55,244 legal entities are due to pay a total of 466.8 million euros this year, up by almost 10 percent from last year’s figure
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Capture of soldiers adds to complexity of Greek-Turkish relations
PoliticsForeign Policy: “We need to respect Turkey’s judicial process. I can’t predict anything with certainty but what I can say is that we believe we will not become involved in a diplomatic and political thriller... is characterised by increased restlessness, by a sense that it can open fronts everywhere, that it can violate
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Competing claims and narratives in Eastern Mediterranean
Agoraand EU law. You can follow him on Twitter. Nikos Skoutaris...). The official position of Greece is that if no common ground can be found in bilateral... of large sections of the media. Is that surprising? Not really. One can easily trace similar patterns
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