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The diversions of the past
Agoraand embarking on a destructive and divisive seven-year reign of terror and backwardness, one would have thought... that Greeks are capable of leaving the disunion of the past behind them. One would have thought... far-left, ideology. Of course, one could argue that Greek urban guerrilla groups
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Greek leaders' contrasting visions all a blur
Agorathey lacked, while fending off the advances of the few. Mitsotakis pledges The vision presented by Mitsotakis was very different. He argued that SYRIZA’s ideology places a limit on Greece’s recovery... that its economic programme requires, might be one of the questions directed at the opposition party
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Newsletter 428 - 21/06/2024
in the region of 300 million euros of which 250 million euros will be directed towards a one-off payment... of scepticism among other cadres about whether this is feasible or even a good idea. One... is being moved from the Interior Ministry to the Labour Ministry, where she is replacing one of the few
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Greece in 2014: The risks and opportunities of moving forward
Agora, at the height of the global financial crisis Latvia’s GDP shrank within one year by almost 18 percent..., when emphasising the achievement as unprecedented one has to bear in mind that the point of departure... the primary surplus achievement. It is but one element in a larger basket of economic and fiscal
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UnLuCky for some: Another painful lesson from the euro crisis
Agorafor tolerance. Over the last year and a half one of the three key players in Greece’s crisis management team... programme were off by a wide margin. As a result, the austerity being applied was inflicting three times....” “Their NFLs (net foreign liabilities) remain very high (implying higher net income payments
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Newsletter 42 - 11/09/2015
in 2016 and 2017, respectively. On the recapitalisation process, one of the rumoured scenarios... to the European Stability Mechanism in late February 2015. Almost one year after the first assessment... surveys are suggesting could be one of the closest Greek elections on record. The campaign themes became
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Tsipras and Mitsotakis cheer Macron win, hope to benefit
PoliticsGreek Politicsto “change the direction Europe is heading in” and to fight off the threat of the far-right. Although... and Gabriel to find a solution. His message ended thus: “I do not want my generation to be the one... these elections are important for Greeks,” said Moscovici “I know Emmanuel Macron very well,” added the EU
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Govt eyes own energy package if EU fails to approve joint action
PoliticsGreek Politicsbills is already very clear. According to Kathimerini, arrears at the Public Power Corporation are 5... taken the option of snap elections off the table officially, the impact that the cost-of-living... reported on Saturday that one of the options being mulled by government officials is to hold snap
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Newsletter 378 - 28/04/2023
of campaigning for the May 21 elections proved to be a relatively productive one for Prime Minister... one of its key strengths, the prime minister repeated his pledge to strengthen borders and improve... rating, keeping Greek debt one notch below investment grade, though it did up its outlook to positive
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Brexit and Grexit – Britain’s referendum and Greece
Agorashow a 50-50 split and no-one can safely say what the result will be. If Brexit happens Prime Minister..., the very term Brexit is derived from the fashionable journalist term, Grexit, coined 5 years ago... they will vote against the EU in solidarity with the people of Greece. Thirdly, the very idea of a referendum
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