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Agoramanner in which Greek governments have taken decisions to meet the various targets they were set... really helped Greek exports? The performance of Greece’s exports has been one of the main disappointments of the troika-led program. One of the pillars of Greece’s adjustment was meant to be internal
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Newsletter 29 - 05/06/2015
. Keeping the current pension regime intact is one of the key red lines for the SYRIZA-led government... to give their opinions in one form or another. Several ministers and SYRIZA MPs have suggested snap... to elections. One is that it would give him an opportunity to remove the more radical MPs from SYRIZA’s
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Losing game: Another doomed effort to revive Greek football?
Agoraprivately owned. Greece also has one of the few top-flight leagues in Europe where there is no foreign... of this income came from gate receipts, which is one of the lowest proportions in the top 20 revenue... “I hope Greece becomes again one of the top countries, like in 2004 when it won the Euro,” UEFA
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Has external competitiveness been fixed in Greece?
Agorain restructuring the Greek economy. One approach is to compare how inflation in Greece has evolved relative to its trading partners. We can do this for two big groups: the rest of the world as one group... to calculate two REERs, one based on harmonized consumer prices (HICP, upper trend line in figure 1) and one
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DBRS moves Greece a notch closer to investment grade as Moody's holds off
Economythe investment grade, which this administration has set as a national target. This is one...The Greek authorities anticipated two credit rating upgrades on Friday but had to settle for one as DBRS upped the country’s rating by one notch and just one step away from investment grade
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Newsletter 519 - 25/09/2026
experience has become one of the government’s most acute vulnerabilities, and it is fuelling anxiety within... of misleading the public about EU constraints on fuel taxation. He set out four mechanisms he said... whether a fixed ceiling was properly costed. SYRIZA tabled a parliamentary amendment specifying a one
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Newsletter 52 - 20/11/2015
passed the omnibus bill containing the last set of prior actions to unlock the next sub-tranche of 2... into the Unified Auxiliary Insurance Fund (ETEA). The first set of new pension measures would reportedly target... or included in the second set of prior actions. Harder and more painful, the second set of measures
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Tsipras in Brussels prep for Obama trip
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAngela Merkel. The one-on-ones were set up as the European Union worries in private but publicly ignores... warmed to the subject in recent weeks. The national debt is set to hit a massive 315 billion euros... of low interest repayment rates set by creditors. If the talks in Brussels go well, the government
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Labour market reforms did exactly what they were supposed to
Agoramoderation and led to higher prices. The wage-bargaining processes set relatively high minimum wage... allow local pay agreements to set wage growth below sectoral agreements and introduce variable pay... would be relaxed by extending the probationary period for new jobs to one year, the overall level
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Multi-bill passed, sub-tranche released but debt relief expectations dwindling
EconomyProgrammelow and the interventions that are due to be announced look set to fall below the bar set... for the last few weeks after being satisfied that Athens has met the targets that had been set... as a technical adviser. One of the debt relief measures proposed at the Eurogroup last June
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