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Fuels propel 10.1% rise in retail sales for May despite volume drop
EconomyMacroeconomyThe growth of Greece’s retail sales accelerated with 10.1 percent year-on-year (YoY) rise in May, after an increase of 4 percent in the previous month, Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT) data.... The volume’s monthly movement was up by 3.3 percent. Compared to May 2025, automotive fuel was up
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Kammenos calls for lynching of mayor but ends up boxing himself into a corner
PoliticsGreek Politics. The damage, however, may have already been done. Kammenos formed Independent Greeks early last year after... leadership and the party’s limited agenda caused some departures late last year. The former ND man’s
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Coalition unwound
Agora. Samaras, feted by some of the international media as the man who turned Greece around, saw an opportunity... Greece’s structural problems. He may be right but, to paraphrase George Orwell, when you talk about
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Greece could still leave euro, says Simitis, PM who engineered entry
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe threat of “Grexit” was supposed to have disappeared in 2013 but the man who led Greece into the euro, ex-Prime Minister Costas Simitis, believes that a departure from the single currency should... to unite Greece’s social democrats ahead of the European Parliament elections in May. His op-ed can perhaps
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Politics trumping economic prudence in Greece
Agorawould improve further in 2015 is akin to informing a drowning man that the rescuers are still... Paulson & Co. has had to suffer during the past 12 months. But he may start looking at Piraeus Bank
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Tsipras and the binary opposition
Agorahold little sway. The European Parliament elections of May 2014 marked a watershed in this respect... has included stints in local government and various ministries. Cooperation with the forgotten man
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Newsletter 92 - 14/10/2016
believes that this is what the eurozone agreed to in May and hopes that it can secure a favourable... skipper also just sees himself as a man doing his job, albeit in extraordinary circumstances. However
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Newsletter 95 - 11/11/2016
the previous month to land at 89 in September, which is the lowest reading since May. The Board... man (in fact, he was notorious for having treated some of the people who worked for him poorly
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Debt deal eludes Greece and lenders, June 15 set as final deadline
PoliticsGreek Politicsin the next three weeks. "It should not be beyond the wit of man," he said in comments to reporters after... for the measures it adopted last week. Some SYRIZA MPs may wonder whether they were misled ahead of the vote
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No late rally for Tsipras
Agoraleave convinced their party was on the way to its fifth consecutive victory at the ballot box (May... and anti-memorandum clash that peaked between 2012 and 2015. Tsipras came across as a man trying
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