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  1. When the refugee crisis met the bailout review

    Agora

    After weeks of dancing around the issue, it seems that Greece and its lenders have started, even tangentially, to link the refugee crisis and the pending bailout review. So far, publicly the Greek government has not sought to establish a connection betw...

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  2. Draft budget sees stronger growth, fiscal targets being met
    Photo by Panayotis Tzamaros/Fosphotos

    EconomyMacroeconomy

    The Finance Ministry (MoF) tabled on Monday in Parliament’s Economic Affairs Committee the 2018 draft budget, which contains its fiscal estimates as well as the underlying macro assumptions. The MoF expects that the improvement in economic confidence du...

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  3. Amid risk of 2015 re-run, Greece searching for deal with lenders
    Photo by Myrto Papadopoulos [www.myrtopapadopoulos.com]

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    that the negotiators parted on bad terms, with European Stability Mechanism managing director Klaus Regling

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  4. Greece in danger of repeating familiar mistakes with Golden Dawn
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    Agora

    Barring any last minute upsets, Golden Dawn will officially become Greece’s third-largest party when local and European Parliament elections are held in May. At least that is what opinion polls have been indicating for some time. It would represent anot...

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  5. In Spain, the best generation is in danger of becoming the lost generation
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    Agora

    A double degree in communication from Paris and Madrid universities, and a master’s in cultural policy at a prestigious British institution may have been enough for getting a job a decade ago in Spain but not now. Laura, 25 and unemployed for one year, ...

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  6. Podcast - Riding into the danger zone: Greece gets new jets

    Agora

    Greece recently received the first six state-of-the art fighter jets it has ordered from France, hoping that their arrival marks the start of an upgrade of its military capabilities, but also an improvement in its geopolitical standing. The Rafale plane...

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  7. Greece courts danger
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    Agora

    This could go down as the week that Greek justice took over from Liz Truss as the world’s briefest joke. It would be funny if it wasn’t so worrying. On Tuesday, Greece’s Supreme Court announced the findings of a preliminary 9-month investigation into th...

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  8. Budget primary surplus at 3.16 bln in December, missing target for full year by 443 mln
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    EconomyMacroeconomy

    billion euros and was below target by 611 million. Net revenues came to 50.96 billion euros, under... expenditure came to 44.20 billion, below target by 611 million euros. Interest payments declined YoY

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  9. We need to talk about unemployment

    Agora

    its peak, the chances of the Finance Ministry’s unemployment projections being met seem remote... further deteriorate. They are in danger of joining the ranks of some 800,000 people that have lost

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  10. The challenge in Greece: Funding an emerging economic recovery
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    Agora

    in Greece must be met by the fundamental question of how this dynamic can be made sustainable over time.... The danger may rest in a rising dependency of third-party public financing, relying primarily

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