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  1. Underlining stress on Greek society, suicide rate doubled in first years of economic crisis

    Society

    the three-year period. A staggering 104.8 percent more women committed suicide in 2011 compared with the previous year, while the overall rate of people taking their own lives grew by 26.5 percent (from

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  2. Credit contraction marginally decelerated to 3.9 pct in August

    EconomyMacroeconomy

    Credit contraction in the Greek market marginally decelerated to 3.9 percent year on year (yoy) in August from 4.0 percent in July with balances reaching 221.79 billion euros, according to the Bank of Greece (BoG). Loan balances eased 0.3 percent month on month (m-o-m) for the fifth consecutive

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  3. Lest we forget

    Agora

    “The people don’t forget, they hang fascists,” goes a chant that Greeks have been hearing for decades. This year, seeing the fascists being put behind bars will suffice for most. The slogan is born... summer at the same time that neo-Nazis were thriving in opinion polls. Earlier this year, his party

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  4. Greece's building activity continues its nosedive in July

    EconomyMacroeconomy

    Greek building activity (measured by the number of building permits) dropped 24.0 percent in July with the respective surface figure easing 8.6 percent, while volume remained flat year on year, according to the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT). Moving to the aggregate figures, which strip

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  5. Drop in Greek CPI decelerated to 1.1 pct in September

    EconomyMacroeconomy

    and 3.5 percent respectively, while clothing and footwear prices remained almost flat year on year

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  6. House of cards (The rise and fall of Akis Tsochatzopoulos)
    Photo by Can Esenbel [www.mundanepleasure.com]

    Agora

    ’s behalf at the Madrid European Council that year to the decisions to include Eastern and Central European countries in the EU and to name the single currency the euro. A year later, he came within

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  7. EU Task Force sees improvements in Greece, tends to damaged ties

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    carried out by Public Issue in June this year indicated that 52 percent of Greeks have a negative... percent each year than it would have without the help from Brussels . This was the third highest rate

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  8. Greece trying to lay 'phantom' pensions to rest
    Photo by Harry van Versendaal

    Society

    , completed its census in March this year. For the censuses, pensioners were required to present... to modernize the way pensions are paid and received. This year, for instance, will be the first that those

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  9. Deposits down for fourth month in a row as tax obligations rise

    EconomyMacroeconomy

    more than offsetting sight inflows of 501 million. The year to date flow is now marginally positive... of the year, is seen trimming deposit balances in the next months until recession bottoms out

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  10. A summit of little substance

    Agora

    schedule – should be adopted by legislators before the European Parliament elections in May next year... ‘mainstream voters’ to turn out at next year’s European elections by persuading them that their vote

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