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Our cruel summer
Agora” or “Pakistani” to be used liberally as a catch-all description for anyone deemed to be inferior or dispensable... that is all we have known in our lifetimes. The certainties we had about our world, and our place... will continue to refuse to accept that we are all brothers and sisters with finite time, space
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Greece - Some structural macroeconomic arithmetic
Agoraunderneath the surface. Can we ascertain Greece’s structural underlying basis? All macroeconomic outlooks... slows from a positive output gap). The core idea is that all economies are subject to shocks... a need to provide an uplifting vision). But all these outlooks show slowing over time, suggesting
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Mitsotakis joins calls for EU to develop air defence system
PoliticsForeign Policydefence system to protect our common EU airspace against all the incoming threats.” Describing a lack... defense system. “We have to have a common air defense shield for all of Europe, like it was proposed... to get Patriot systems. “We all know who has them, we all know where they are, and we all know who
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Newsletter 483 - 07/11/2025
landscape was rocked by a storm of dissent, disillusionment, and internal rebellion, all triggered... of democratic institutions. Blame is spread across the spectrum: 34% fault the government, 31% all... pct of all new enterprises born in 2023, 61,169 out of 78,754, began with no employees
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Greece and the euro: The flight of Icarus
Agora. Competing with the likes of a resurgent German economy meant it had to be competitive on all levels... have all risen substantially. This year, Greeks have so far paid 450 percent more in property tax... in that direction, the eurozone faces some tough choices. It needs bold economic decisions but above all
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One night in Cannes
Agorawith Greece's decision makers over the past few years. For all their failings, ministers, prime ministers... the referendum was scuppered. It was undermined first of all by Papandreou himself, who failed... Greece to the brink of collapse. However, this begs the question of why Samaras did not go all out
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In the absence of light, darkness grows
AgoraDemocracy, which lost more than 525,000 votes since June 2012? Even if we were to set all this aside... but it feeds into a worrying refusal by all the main parties to accept or discuss the most worrying aspect of the recent elections. From May 26 it was business as usual: New Democracy, PASOK and SYRIZA all
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What would a clean bailout exit for Greece mean in numbers?
Agorafor the purpose of paying back debt. The decision is not endorsed by all central banks and does not change... with the IMF in the years to come. It is due to repay all funds of the first program by the end of 2016 and then start repaying the second program between 2016 and 2026, assuming Greece uses all
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Understanding the German approach towards Greece
Agoraoften overemphasise the importance of the AfD. After all, if the Germans have the right economic...-profiling. Finally, Angela Merkel is not, by all accounts, a cynic. She likes to understand... perspective could well pay off. Moreover, Merkel’s main interest is to forge a compromise that all sides
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The education of Alexis Tsipras
Agorapoint during his speech. Without a second though, Tsipras responded: “The time of all Greeks has come... all Greeks spoke to Tsipras’s growing realisation over the last few years that his evolution from... that Karamanlis’s greatest contribution was to make the “extra step” to unite the country. “All political
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