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  1. Govt looks to tax bonanza for autumn handouts announcement
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    of the year and to give a one-off payment to pensioners who missed out on the recent rise due..., being caught off-guard by public discontent over access to beaches, and presiding over a major... was celebrating the August 15 public holiday that the country had “every reason to be optimistic

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  2. PASOK leadership debate highlights tensions as SYRIZA unites briefly for Tsipras
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    The six candidates in the PASOK leadership contest squared off in a televised debate focussed more... and their loyalty to the party. Androulakis distinguished himself mainly by being able to shrug off the attacks... president argued that a progressive movement should avoid falling prey to “every preacher who will try

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  3. Greek consumers take effort to lower prices into their own hands

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    an immediate effect as Greeks were able to buy local potatoes for as little as 25 cents a kilo directly from... consumers to buy directly from the producers. In Katerini, it is estimated that 40 percent of the northern city’s residents buy their food from these markets. According to a survey conducted by the Hellenic

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  4. Greeks among world's most discontent with democratic process, survey finds
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    Society

    A survey by the Pew Research Center has revealed that Greeks are some of the least satisfied... are satisfied. Among the European countries surveyed, Greeks were most dissatisfied with how democracy was working in their country, with 84 percent saying that they were not satisfied. The next least satisfied

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  5. Newsletter 47 - 16/10/2015

    Newsletters

    lead to a run-off vote a week later), the rivets holding together the strange amalgamation... of the four hopefuls, has set off around Greece in a camper van. It’s not so much the kind of battle... than Alexis Tsipras, which satisfies those within the party who feel they need to be led by someone

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  6. Whither New Democracy?

    Agora

    lead to a run-off vote a week later), the rivets holding together the strange amalgamation... of the four hopefuls, has set off around Greece in a camper van. It’s not so much the kind of battle... than Alexis Tsipras, which satisfies those within the party who feel they need to be led by someone

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  7. Newsletter 58 - 15/01/2016

    Newsletters

    , Mitsotakis saw off the competition from his rival Evangelos Meimarakis (52.4 vs 47.6 percent) to win Sunday’s..., or attempting to convince others, that you are pioneers in a European revolution helps take the edge off... and the policy ideology that satisfies those who want to ensure Greece does not get an easy ride. The IMF

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  8. Greece's new finance minister lines up for a marathon (and several short sprints)

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    The naming of economist Gikas Hardouvelis as Greece’s new finance minister took most observers by surprise but the big challenges awaiting him are no secret. Hardouvelis’s appointment caught many off.... “Greece is suffering. Every household has at least one person who is unemployed or someone who is working

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  9. Drop ‘til you shop
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    Agora

    and that they lose their day off. There is also a political dimension (the opposition parties are against... by a new law allowing stores in 10 areas of Greece to open every Sunday. Unions representing store owners

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  10. The IMF crisis and how to solve it
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    its first major paper in a decade on sovereign debt restructuring. But its review got off to a false..., it is just plain silly that every MD has originated from Western Europe for the last 67 years. Why

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