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Newsletter 454 - 07/03/2025
and towns saw the largest protests held for several decades in Greece last Friday, marking.... Greece last saw these yield levels in June last year and has been firmly on a downward path... of the weekUnemployment January saw a sharp drop in the unemployment rate to 8.7 pct, a drop of 3 percentage
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SYRIZA's left wing hoping to prevent Tsipras from concluding bailout talks
PoliticsGreek Politicscommittee, which is due to hold an emergency meeting on Thursday. Tsipras had proposed on Monday that an emergency congress be held to allow SYRIZA to settle its differences over whether the government... with the creditors. 2) An emergency congress would mean new delegates being elected rather than the ones who
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Newsletter 242 -06/03/2020
the move. The European Commission approved 700 million euros of emergency funds to help Greece cope... the European civil defence mechanism, including medical personnel and emergency supplies. Hosting... for public dissent from the governments’ actions. With the situation presented as a national emergency
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Will the Covid-19 crisis undermine the EU Green Deal? A view from Europe's periphery
Agorahave equally called for post-emergency recovery packages (fiscal and monetary expansion to prop up our... for a transformative green recovery strategy in the EU, after the emergency stage of the epidemic is over... serious “green recovery package” (i.e. post-emergency green fiscal expansion) aligned with the EU Green
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Govt pleads with firms to absorb inflation as surveillance claims prompt calls for accountability
PoliticsGreek Politicsgrowth are being eroded by emergency support measures. On Monday, Alternate Finance Minister Theodoros..., the 42 billion euros spent on emergency support measures relating to the pandemic, natural disaster relief and emergency subsidies on energy bills have created a 7.2-billion-euro budget deficit
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Time running out for government action out as water crisis deepens
PoliticsGreek Politicsof emergency status and forced ministers to admit that “difficult decisions” can no longer be delayed... in drought emergency, forwarding its opinion to Papastavrou for ministerial approval. The designation... that collapsing reserves in Attica prove emergency action should have been taken earlier. The party
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ND presents united front at anniversary event, but factional tensions lurk
PoliticsGreek Politicscontract under pandemic emergency powers to a polling company run by a close associate. The paper linked... members. Georgiadis responded to defend the emergency procurement process, while disputing... ignited fears of the emergence of new political entities which could draw support away from ND’s
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Greece and the euro: The flight of Icarus
Agora, as some of the people in the audience today will know very well. Greece saw joining the euro as part... meant structural factors were overlooked. A period of belt-tightening before euro entry saw Greece’s... elections this summer that saw support for New Democracy and PASOK cut in half. The once-sworn enemies
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Tsipras confounds expectations, creates new doubts by reviving coalition
PoliticsGreek Politicsdifference was a surprise, as was the fact that SYRIZA saw its January support drop by less than 1... into Parliament, with 3.6 percent of the vote, also confounded pollsters, most of whom saw the nationalist... for centrist party To Potami, which saw its support drop from 6 percent in January to 4.1 percent
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The enemy within
Agorathat lower income groups in Greece saw their tax burden increase by 337.7 percent from 2008 to 2012... groups saw their earnings from wages sink the most (by 16.4 to 34.6 percent) between 2008 and 2012, while the top income groups saw their income fall by much less (9.3 to 11.7 percent). What
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