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ND and SYRIZA clash over costing of opposition economic programme
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe government of lying over the source of the cost estimates it has been using to challenge the opposition’s... the latter is generally done in a jocular manner, the theme has been pursued at length by government... domestically, as well permitting its export against EU rules and allowing training facilities
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Fears and reassurances over PPC's dire finances
EconomyFeaturesa billion euros from continued operations, the future of the Public Power Corporation (PPC) has been a topic of hot debate in recent weeks. What caused the company’s finances to turn so dire has also come... units, the net loss came closer to one billion euros. Criticism has come flying from all sides
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Newsletter 75 - 27/05/2016
as a counterbalance to the clutch of unpopular measures his administration has just approved...-bills this month and getting very little that tangible in return from Greece’s lenders has caused... surrounding debt relief for Greece. The fact that the discussion has been delayed again until later this year
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Newsletter 207 -24/05/2019
to tempt voters Although its lead in the opinion polls has been contracting, New Democracy goes... pledge made by SYRIZA in this campaign, where it has made a particular effort to target pensioners... parliament elections, SYRIZA has pulled out the stops with a host of last-minute fiscal promises
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Quasi-statesmanship and political gymnastics
AgoraIt’s been quite a few days for Alexis Tsipras. The Greek Prime Minister has been deemed worthy... like to deal in when it comes to the Macedonia name issue. Tsipras has been hailed as a statesman... indeed take political courage to settle a dispute that has dragged on for more than a quarter
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The case of SYRIZA's fiscal performance
Agorahas behaved relative to this target. Accordingly, what we see in Figure 1 is that Antonis Samaras... question is: how did SYRIZA accomplish this and why did they do it? Before we answer that question... and has incurred substantial additional debt. The risks from very high debt have, if anything
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Policing in spotlight after shocking domestic violence incident
PoliticsGreek Politicsstation where she had gone to seek protection has put the New Democracy government on the spot over... officers had received training in handling domestic violence, and the probe would focus on whether protocols had been followed. An internal investigation has been launched by the police. Opposition parties
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Here's what's in the 2015 draft budget the Greek government has just unveiled
EconomyMacroeconomy. According to the MoF’s updated forecasts, the fiscal gap for 2015 has narrowed to 225 million euros from 912
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Where has the money withdrawn from Greek banks gone?
AgoraSince December, the Greek banking system has been suffering from extended deposit outflows, which reached 26.8 billion euros at the end of March. Almost 90 percent of these withdrawals stemmed from time deposits, while only around 600 million euros was taken from savings accounts. The evolution
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Tsipras wins confidence vote, has to repeat trick in ballot on name deal
PoliticsGreek PoliticsTo Potami on Wednesday regarding what stance its five MPs (Danellis has been ousted) will take. Two
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