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Opposition irate over watchdog briefing as govt hints at "rogue network" behind surveillance
PoliticsGreek PoliticsOpposition MPs stormed out of a meeting of the parliamentary committee handling the surveillance affair over what they claim is a concerted attempt by the government to cover up a politically motivated spying operation on domestic targets including jour...
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Kasselakis offers more hints of a positive narrative for SYRIZA's post-Tsipras era
PoliticsGreek PoliticsSeveral months after his surprise election to the leadership of SYRIZA, Stefanos Kasselakis has started sketching out the first lines that will distinguish his era from that of party founder Alexis Tsipras. Buoyed by encouraging signs from recent polls ...
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Mitsotakis hints at post-election policy tweaks to address economic concerns
PoliticsGreek PoliticsWith the cost of living and the economy dominating much of the public debate in the run-up to next week’s EP elections, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has started to sketch out several specific interventions that the government is mulling for after ...
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S&P leaves Greece's 'BBB' rating unchanged, hints at slower pace of upgrades
EconomyS&P on Friday reaffirmed Greece’s sovereign credit rating at ‘BBB’ with a stable outlook, citing confidence in the country’s fiscal discipline, solid economic growth, and an improving banking sector. In April, S&P was among the agencies that advanced Gr...
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Refugee influx pushes Tsipras towards crisis nexus
Agoraarrived in 2014 but already this year there have been more than 400,000 arrivals. On Friday, IOM... of a delayed reaction to a problem that until recently only affected its outer borders. It increased.... However, the scale of the problem means that much more will need to be spent in the months to come
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Gucci and Greece’s lost photo opportunity
EconomyFeatures. So notable was the impact of Bollywood films on Swiss tourism that in 2016, the Swiss government erected a statue in Yash Chopra’s honour. Times have changed for Switzerland - at its peak, more than... outside of Bollywood circles is the enormous success Switzerland enjoyed after working closely
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Newsletter 36 - 24/07/2015
it as a national rather than European problem. They chose to hide the absolute truth about the crisis... mandate in the autumn. There are several reasons to believe that this is more than idle speculation... 690 million euros year-on-year. 2 Divided we fall Treating Greek crisis as a national problem has
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Where is Odysseus? Part 1 - Demographics
Agoraspending and increasing aggregate demand. But Greece has never had a problem with spending or a lack... sustainability analysis. The problem is that the EC long-run outlook invariably has a political... in the future than in the past. This follows from the decline in the population and in the number
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NPL resolution in Italy and Greece
Agoraeuros, equivalent to a fifth of GDP, in 2015. The systemic nature of the problem is further underscored by the reality that more than 200 billion euros of these NPLs are termed sofferenze in Italian... on repossessions (which all governments have supported since 2008) and transferring the problem
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For better or worse: Greece's bailout exit deja vu
Agorawas underwhelming and Greece accepted less than it had initially targeted. The ensuing months shuttered... measures to zero the gap for 2015. To compound his problem, the Fund estimated that even if the gap... by regular, albeit less intrusive than in the past, monitoring over the next four years. The situation
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