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The gruelling final straight of Greece's bailout
AgoraGreece should seek a precautionary credit line rather than a cash buffer, estimated at somewhere... Greece with extra insurance if markets are more turbulent than expected when it leaves the programme... for incomes (worth an amount equal to 1 percent of GDP) has to be implemented in 2019, rather than 2020
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Greeks show highest mistrust in newspapers, TV and online news across EU
Societyin particular had levels of trust in radio news that were lower than the EU average, and the highest..., at 44 percent for Greece and 47 percent for the EU. Conversely, Greeks had a higher than average... than the average to place responsibility with broadcasting management (30 percent) and more likely than
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Putting right everything that went wrong in Mati
AgoraWhen dozens of people burn to death a few metres from the sea, less than an hour’s drive from... perplexing. Rather than seek to reassure citizens that it was at least in control of the relief effort... managed to make a situation involving the deaths of more than 80 people even worse. It would
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BoG highlights areas of concern in underlying NPE data
EconomyBankingis that there was an increase in the percentage of loans that are past due less than 90 days which... not been serviced for more than 90 days, excluding denounced loans, fell further by 8.4 percent... to note, though, that 68.1 percent of the loans in this category have not been serviced for more than
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SYRIZA and ANEL: Far from picture-perfect
Agorato an end now, having lasted longer than many observers expected, but its deep flaws were visible...-wing party surged from the fringes to gain 36.3 percent of the vote – more than Greece’s traditional... of thoroughness than serving any practical purpose. In between them, there was a small cup of coffee. That’s
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Deal or no deal? Greece wrestles with the Macedonia issue
Agorabeen leaders or governments in the two countries that are keener to reach a resolution than now. Zaev... SYRIZA had traditionally taken a more flexible stance on the name issue than its political rivals... a referendum on the Prespes Agreement in FYROM. Although more than 90 percent of voters backed the deal
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Greeks dissatisfied with benefits scope and access, OECD survey finds
Societywith this statement than younger ones. Most respondents expressed low confidence... of Greeks expressed the sentiment that the economic situation in Greece is currently worse than... are getting more benefits than they should. The sense that their government was not listening to them
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Summit to usher in a new stage of EU-China relations
Agoraby an unprecedented level of confrontation between the two delegations, less than two weeks after the visit... gone through no fewer than 19 rounds of negotiation since November 2013. Europeans are increasingly.... But worse than the timing of the summit is a long list of structural challenges Europe is up against
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Overdue social security contributions top 35 bln in Q1
EconomyMacroeconomy) revealed. Until the end of 2016, KEAO was fed by overdue contributions of more than 5,000 euros from... showed that 70.4 percent of debtors owe less than 15,000 euros each for an aggregate amount of 3.83 billion euros (10.8 percent of the total). Overall, slightly more than 1 million debtors fall
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How SYRIZA lost and New Democracy won
Agorahalf a million registered voters, SYRIZA in September 2015 beat New Democracy by more than 10 percentage points (pps) 35.81 percent versus 25.29 percent. With more than 70 percent of Sunday’s votes... by more than 3 pps, 32.9 percent versus 29.5 percent. With 71 percent of Sunday’s votes counted
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