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Asking Greece to stack more austerity measures ignores past failings
Agorawill need to implement 3 percent of GDP, more than 5 billion euros, in further austerity measures up... could find in the markets better rates than those charged by the IMF, justifying the government plan... an upwards-revised surplus of 705 million euros. This meant the target was missed by more than 2
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The benefits of being Greek
Agora, economically liberal voters have nowhere to go other than towards New Democracy. With the demise... foreign. Therein lies the second problem. Even if one assumes (which is far from certain) that non-EU... more desirable than foreigners, or perhaps are some Europeans better than other Europeans? Are all
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Some sad lessons the Western Balkans can learn from Bulgaria's EU Journey
Agorathan in 2009. The 2020 Rule of Law Index by the World Justice Project has given Bulgaria the worst.... There are more Bulgarians working abroad than in Bulgaria. Mass emigration has left key sectors barren — more than half of the doctors in Bulgaria are above 55 years old. The country has the highest death
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The unbearably slow vaccination process in Croatia
Agorathat in Croatia, according to the Government's vaccination plan published in December, there are more than... vaccination are "significantly less delivery of vaccines than promised" because "all manufacturers failed... of the EU (11.3%), but also countries such as Spain, Portugal or Greece have vaccinated more than 7
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The virus may be slowing, but fake news is still rampant
Agoraspread faster than the virus itself. This type of news knew no borders, nor did they distinguish age...% of Kosovars said they did not believe the Covid-19 virus existed at all, while 61.5% said the problem with the virus was overestimated, because they thought the virus was much less dangerous than
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A closer look at Greece's Q3 2023 national accounts
Agoraattention may then shift to other levers in the toolbox, rather than always thinking of credit and fiscal... an aggregate demand problem, as though there is a deficiency. Rather, Greece has permanent excess... to focus on efficiency and productivity, rather than on spending stimulus. Consider Figure 1 below
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Mitsotakis tries to rally MPs amid lacklustre poll data, resurfacing of Tempe
PoliticsGreek Politicsmuch greater support than its rivals - none of whom have made any great strides either - but has... Analysis polls converge on a narrative of stagnation rather than consolidation. Mitsotakis’s... is expanding, with MRB placing the total uncertain vote at 22.4 pct and Metron at 12.6, up more than
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Political tremors shake Spain, overshadow economic progress
Agoraparties The PP and the PSOE’s joint share plummeted to less than 50 percent for the first time... for these two parties totalled 16.5 percent of the votes, seven percentage points less than the PSOE. However... jobless people. Around 60% of them have not worked for more than a year nor did 1.2 million workers over
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Newsletter 85 - 05/08/2016
the beginning of the year, arrears have grown by 1.23 billion, corresponding to a rise of more than 20 percent... or more than 900 million compared to the figure of 5.89 billion in the corresponding period last year... the Georgiou case as an “open wound”. He is right, but not for the reason that he suggests. Rather than
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Is VAT all you've got?
Agora, the symbolism of the reduction is perhaps more important than its economic impact. Samaras presented... for Greece but much less than a triumphant achievement. From the troika’s side, it appears more of an attempt to fob the government off rather than a genuine concession aimed at stimulating the economy
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