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Newsletter 66 - 11/03/2016
and restaurants (+2.6 percent). Housing and transport saw drops of over 4 percent. 2 One for one, none for all... rendered it a shambles. Greece was promised that more than 60,000 people would be transferred over two years but less than 900 have been relocated since last year. However, even if the relocation
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Newsletter 72 - 06/05/2016
on April 19, is due to be discussed in plenary over the weekend and voted on Sunday night, earlier than.... Organised by the Public Diplomacy Council of Catalonia (Diplocat), the one-day event saw a series... and responsive than central governments, which face bureaucratic hurdles and are often hampered by political
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If you think it's bleak for Greece now, wait until tomorrow
Agorasaw growth of 1.2 percent. The equivalent for Ireland has been more than 2 percent. Since reforms... players in shaping policy in Greece recently foresees that it will take more than four decades... worse than the rest of the euro area. The combined effect of all this is that labour will contribute
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Uncomfortable parallels: The Greek and British referendums
Agora) is a worse place now than it was at some foggy point in the past where we achieved peak Blighty.” Last year..., and often shameless, appeals to emotion carry immense power. As we saw last year in Greece... last June that “we are far more united and have far more in common with each other than things
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What could Trump's victory mean for Greece?
AgoraKoumoutsakos said the wise thing would be to wait to see Trump’s policies rather than react to his... in all these countries. As we saw in Britain, an election result can be enough to allow latent anger..., with a sense of abandon rather than fear, “if it can happen in America, then why not here
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Survey shows 42 pct of Greek expats unlikely to return
Societyto Greece (42 percent versus 35 percent last year). Forty percent saw themselves returning in three... or work in tourism businesses. More than half of those surveyed (53 percent) are employees, 17... enough in engaging its highly talented diaspora, rather than considering a lost generation. It cited
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EC forecast acknowledges pressure on Greek households, revises down growth
EconomyMacroeconomyin all four quarters, the last quarter of the year saw a substantial slow down with growth of only 0.1... suggests that “households may be more financially stretched than previously assumed... is less than half the previous 1.2 percent growth forecast and next year’s is also lower from the 1.2
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Newsletter 168 -29/06/2018
unpopularity but also because it does not have more than around 12 months in power left. The political... thereafter. This long-term forecast is a downward revision from the previous DSA parameter that saw real... by over 21 percent to 1.91 billion euros, higher than the target by 561 million euros. PIB revenues
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Appeals over past pension cuts sow confusion about potential fiscal impact of backpay
Economyof cuts to pensions. The first saw main pensions above 1,300 euros per month cut by 12 percent... and, as such, there should have been a more detailed analysis and view rather than the across-the-board... that happened in 2012. However, more than 200,000 pensioners have so far submitted applications to a dedicated
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Newsletter 209 -07/06/2019
tries to correct his party’s errors from the European Parliament elections, which saw SYRIZA end up... of the tax-free threshold is more of a spanner in the next government’s works than a voter-pleasing... a fiscal cost of more than 1 percent of GDP in 2019 and beyond. These range from tax repayments
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