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Strait of Hormuz tensions test EU unity and Greece's strategic limits
PoliticsForeign Policyto engage in initiatives originating from the US. On Monday, most European leaders also confirmed
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Newsletter 10 - 09/01/2015
. Unemployment edges down again The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate edged down to 25.8 percent... that goes to the winning party rather than hand New Democracy a surprising victory. The percentage that the winning party would need to win at least 151 seats in Parliament depends The strength of the parties
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Newsletter 82 - 15/07/2016
and get the country’s stagnant economy growing again. His premiership, though, seems to have been... seats at all for the winning party in a general election, applies immediately. If the bill gets a simple... for the winning party. Potami has proposed it should be one extra seat for every two percent of the vote
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Macedonia name issue: Agreement and disagreement
Agorathat it belongs to the family of the Slavic languages and draws again a very clear distinction with ancient... in September 1995. They continued negotiating on finding a 'compound' name with a geographical qualifier...-binding referendum. However, the 37 percent turnout was lower than the 50 percent threshold
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Deal or no deal? Greece wrestles with the Macedonia issue
AgoraGreece in The Hague in 2011, it has been made clear that Athens cannot block this process again.... This positivity towards finding common ground was evident in the relatively quick time that the two... the fact that the plebiscite was non-binding allowed Zaev to proceed with the process
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Has external competitiveness been fixed in Greece?
Agorawas no longer available. Competitiveness deteriorated again through a peak in the REER in 2010. The REER declined again after the onset of the crisis, and price competitiveness, as measured by the IMF... based on inflation as indicated by the implicit GDP deflator (middle trend line). Once again, we
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Where is Greek growth coming from?
Agoraagain, and my estimate suggests that it is now around 0.7 percent a year. Putting these supply.... The differences are once again striking: Greece spends much less than partner countries on investments... downturn again, perhaps constraining the recovery. A country with excessive consumption will have
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Paddling with a wooden spoon
Agoraanalysis to, again, draw attention to its belief that the Greek programme cannot work as it is designed.... Firstly, because throughout the course of the Greek crisis the task of finding whose goals have been.... Right now it doesn’t really sound like a winning formula. *An earlier version of this article appeared
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Govt mulls Easter bonus as cost-of-living crisis causes public concern
PoliticsGreek Politicsagain in search of fiscal space for more relief measures, just days after the prime minister and senior... divergent challenges for Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s government, which is finding it increasingly difficult..., which is widely credited with winning Mitsotakis the party leadership and the national elections
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PM accepts economic recovery not being felt by all, argues for more time
PoliticsGreek Politicsof respondents do not think that SYRIZA has any chance of becoming a party of power again after its... of winning the next general elections, due in 2027. A GPO opinion poll for Parapolitika radio indicated..., while two thirds say that they are finding it difficult to cover all their needs. An overwhelming
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