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Between the sword and the olive branch: Dilemmas of Greek diplomacy
Agora. Rather than the basis for a long-term foreign policy strategy, this tactic bears the hallmark of a "my..., it looks as if he has created an even more complex problem for himself. By refusing to continue peace... to view the dispute in less cut-and-dried terms than it is seen in Athens, Nicosia and Ankara
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Troika inquiry: talk to the organ grinder, not the monkey
Agoraand narrow focus on the troika – a team of civil servants – rather than its political masters... after another. Self-fulfilling fear of “contagion” spread faster than blundering European authorities... dictating terms. The creditors needed an go-between and a scapegoat. (The reason for a troika, rather than
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In Spain, the best generation is in danger of becoming the lost generation
Agorathan half of the Spanish youngsters that are looking for a job are currently unemployed. This brings... against this “unacceptable” and “alarming” problem but the opposition and the trade unions have... in the educational achievements of the labour force does not always solve the unemployment problem
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Newsletter 14 - 06/02/2015
the key problem will lie. German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble made it clear on Thursday..., with a confidence vote due at midnight on February 10, a day later than initially scheduled... by Varoufakis suggesting a debt swap rather than a haircut. Again, anyone observing what key players in SYRIZA
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Newsletter 20 - 20/03/2015
, possibly with only enough to survive until mid-April. Overcoming this liquidity problem has become... problem has become Tsipras’s main task. programme (SMP) in the days after the Eurogroup. Greece has... that primary expenditure was 538 million better than the target in February. However, the fact that revenues
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Newsletter 55 - 12/12/2015
2016, which he set at around 3 billion, a higher figure than the 2016 budget target of 2 billion... put it. It is true that on some issues, the fund is a harder taskmaster than the European lenders... for lenders making a significant intervention in the country’s debt rather than just tinkering around
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Newsletter 66 - 11/03/2016
on border poses biggest problem Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has staked a big part of his future... problem for the government, especially if the deal with Turkey does not materialise or fails to work when... rendered it a shambles. Greece was promised that more than 60,000 people would be transferred over
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Camp conditions and fragile EU-Turkey agreement risks for Greece in refugee crisis
PoliticsForeign Policymajor problem but have created lots of smaller ones, especially given that conditions... standard by the UNHCR. The government is well aware of the problem. On Wednesday, Migration Policy... in Thessaloniki as a “necessity, rather than choice.” He said that 8,000 places were created in less than two
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About to soar? Greece's economy still needs to be handled with care
Agoraproven to be one of the most reliable measurements of sentiment, posted another inflow of more than... for families with many children, although that is only masking the problem in the headline primary deficit... of NPEs are non-performing for more than a year, whereas over half of them are non-performing
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Who lied about Covid-19 in Serbia, and how?
Agoratrust more friends and family as a source of information during disasters than the mass media... have height greater than the average are twice likely of being infected with the corona virus; also... about a phenomenon. The problem is happening at a time when there is no objective reason
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