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  1. Eurozone periphery condemned to low wages, demand, EC study suggests
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    Economy

    A research paper by an economist at the European Commission’s Directorate General for Economic and Financial Affairs (DG ECFIN), which was initially published online this week by accident, withdrawn.... However, economist Jan in ‘t Veld is clear in his criticism on the euro area opting to simultaneously

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  2. Greece's new finance minister lines up for a marathon (and several short sprints)

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    The naming of economist Gikas Hardouvelis as Greece’s new finance minister took most observers by surprise but the big challenges awaiting him are no secret. Hardouvelis’s appointment caught many off... economist to take up the job at the Finance Ministry. The new finance minister cannot say he is unaware

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  3. Stomach for the fight
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    Agora

    that, the only major change was at the Finance Ministry, where economist Gikas Hardouvelis replaced..., though, about how someone like Hardouvelis, a US-educated economist used to moving to technocratic

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  4. Tsipras hopes to muddle through, avoid internal clash for now

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    in 2013. SYRIZA continues to be split over how the government should progress. Marxist economist Yiannis... agreement. Fellow economist, and MP, Kostas Lapavitsas continues to publicly advocate a euro exit

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  5. Varoufakis and his friendly fire

    Agora

    of a button,” as the economist described it. While some people have interpreted the ex-finance minister’s.... “Being a good economist doesn’t mean you are also a good politician,” Tsipras told public broadcaster

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  6. Parliament will not probe 2015 bailout negotiations but issue unlikely to disappear
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis and US economist James Galbraith, who served as his adviser... with the outspoken economist. Varoufakis, though, shows no signs of wanting to let sleeping dogs lie

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  7. Newsletter 100 - 16/12/2016

    Newsletters

    came from a blogpost written by the IMF’s chief economist Maurice Obstfeld and the director of its...’s chief economist Maurice Obstfeld and the director of its European Department, Poul Thomsen, also

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  8. Lenders provide words of support and warning regarding debt talks
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    or what kind of compromise could emerge. Speaking at an Economist conference in Frankfurt, Finance... footing.” This opinion was echoed by the ESM’s chief economist Rolf Strauch in a speech in Athens. Strauch

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  9. I know what you did the summer before last
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    Agora

    of Greece. The economist’s take is undoubtedly engaging but should be treated with caution. We... SYRIZA came to power, yet this scheme has also been claimed by American economist James Galbraith

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  10. Moments to remember from the euro crisis
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    Agora

    , leading The Economist to label him “intransigent” in May 2011 and accuse him of putting... years later, The Economist wrote about Trichet’s “poison pen” and argued that the note strengthened

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