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  1. Athens balances EU line and opts for observer role in Trump’s Board of Peace

    PoliticsForeign Policy

    , the Greek government has tried to follow a balanced approach aligned with the EU. This meant rejecting

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  2. An issue of statistical significance in Greece

    Agora

    deficit for that year should have been just under 4 percent of GDP, rather than the final figure..., was pumped up so it would be bigger than Ireland’s, which was 14.3 percent, and therefore the biggest... of Greece’s fiscal derailment in 2009. If for no other reason than that it is important to appreciate

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  3. Does new troika visit spell fresh drama for Greece? Maybe not

    Economy

    rather than war.” What are the factors preventing the release of Greece’s next loan tranche? Greece still... to find out if the government has found a way to settle more than 500 million euros of state debts... surplus of more than 2.8 billion euros. Shortly after the draft budget was produced, European

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  4. Newfound variety helps Greek winemakers enjoy exports boost

    Society

    . In 2012, exports reached more than 26,000 tons with a value of almost 40 million euros, making... importers of Greek goods overall, accounts for more than 40 percent of Greek strawberry exports... million euros in 2008 to 66.2 million euros last year. This improvement has been based on much more than

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  5. 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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  6. Has SYRIZA's moment gone?
    Photo by Myrto Papadopoulos [www.myrtopapadopoulos.com]

    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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  7. 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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  8. 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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  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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