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Famellos aims for fresh start but existential questions dog SYRIZA
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe latest conference held by SYRIZA, Greece’s fading leftist party, raised more questions than... Kasselakis in 2023. However, rather than Kasselakis, it was the ghost of Alexis Tsipras that haunted..., became vacant earlier than expected when Maria Syreggela opted to step down well ahead of the party’s
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Greece's labour market is austerity's biggest casualty
Agoraof approximately 700 million euros and for the first time in over a decade spend less than... plan to address the issue of unemployment. The construction sector saw its peak in employment... repeatedly reduced. In Germany alone, according to the Federal Employment Agency more than 123,000 Greeks
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Consensus, conviction and the anti-racism bill
Agoraof consensus and saw herself as a “conviction politician,” she may have been smiling down as the heads... disastrous showing in the 2009 general elections. Although less than four years have passed since... and elsewhere rather than to back the anti-racism law now in an effort to disperse the far right
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Nightmare on Democracy Street
Agorato heal as the 50s and 60s saw the continued persecution of leftists, culminating in the military... from Greece’s two largest parties, New Democracy and SYRIZA, are often little more than hate-filled... groups with varying participation rather than a common, forceful expression of concern and solidarity
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Final act in ERT closure carries significant risk for coalition
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat in the eyes of some Greeks, ERT was just another branch of a public sector they saw as bloated... to be to push for NERIT, rather than a pared down interim TV service, known simply as Public... to be more transparent and better managed than ERT, then there is a possibility that the impact of events
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Is Democratic Left set to make a shock return to Greece's coalition?
PoliticsGreek Politicsin Parliament but saw its presence reduced to just 154 of 300 seats when PASOK deputy Theodora Tzakri was ousted... than a three-party one. “Given the policy that was followed and our disagreement with it, but also... walked out of the administration rather than support the terms of Greece’s second bailout. DIMAR’s
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With troika OK pending, 2014 budget sees primary surplus at 1.6 pct of GDP
EconomyMacroeconomyprojections are higher than those incorporated in the 2014 draft budget, which saw a primary... for 2013 will be more than offset on an accrual basis with additional revenues of 1.16 billion
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Spain’s economic recovery languishes amid graft scandals
Agorais not expected even though the main Spanish banks’ saw their profits surge in 2013. Analysts warn... the 0.5 percent rate calculated by the European Commission but lower than the 1 percent estimated.... According to the European Commission’s economic forecasts, Spain’s deficit won’t be lower than 6 percent
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EU elections do not mark end of numbers game in Greek politics
PoliticsGreek Politicsthan 24 hours after the elections were held SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras claimed his party’s 3.9... New Democracy and PASOK saw their support decline by 11 percentage points compared to the June 2012... sitting as independents to back its candidate. However, this is unlikely to yield much more than four
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Greek PMI falls to 49.4 in June, lowest since November 2013
EconomyMacroeconomyamid a slight fall in new orders, while employment saw a renewed decline. In addition cost inflation... heading south, while post-production inventories dropped at a solid rate, although slower than in May... was slower than in May. Markit analysts concluded that: “Greece’s manufacturing PMI fell back below
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