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Five things to take away from the first round of Greek local elections
PoliticsGreek Politicsbefore. The graph below produced by Public Issue suggests SYRIZA saw a 13.2 percentage point increase... regions. Although New Democracy saw support for its candidates fall by just over six percentage
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Historic victory for SYRIZA in EU vote unlikely to dislodge Greek coalition
PoliticsGreek Politicsopposition party could point to the fact that New Democracy and PASOK (Elia) saw their share of the vote drop... saw its support decline by a combined total of almost 11 percentage points. Nevertheless, the fact
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Greece's biggest problem? Society's lack of openness
Agorabeen cited as being central to its malaise. Conservatives saw in the country a textbook case... of the private sector. Some analyses went a little deeper and saw clientelism as the core pathology, an acid
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Divided we fall?
AgoraAntonis Samaras became the arch-proponent of the anti-memorandum line, feeding the populism that saw... fed antagonism. Samaras's New Democracy cultivated the "theory of the two extremes," which saw
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Newsletter 36 - 24/07/2015
and 20. Sharp rise in Eurosystem funding Greek banks’ Eurosystem funding saw its sharpest rise... in 2010, which saw each country in the euro area as an island battling against the irresponsibility
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Newsletter 58 - 15/01/2016
, Mitsotakis saw off the competition from his rival Evangelos Meimarakis (52.4 vs 47.6 percent) to win Sunday’s.... Elected just over a year ago, the leftist party saw itself in the vanguard of the backlash against
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Newsletter 62 - 12/02/2016
fund (IKA) saw the level of contributions paid in by workers plummet by 31.5 percent between 2010... government’s wayward and naïve negotiating strategy last year, which saw the early signs of an economic
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Multiple crises fence in Greece
Agorafunds. The country’s main social security fund (IKA) saw the level of contributions paid..., which saw the early signs of an economic recovery wiped out and Greece’s banks undermined
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Newsletter 70 - 15/04/2016
the unilateral action we saw from the SYRIZA-led administration last year. The government made it clear... Macedonia (+11.6 percent) and North Aegean (+5.3 percent). January saw the number of building permits hit
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Tsipras sails through multi-bill vote, looks to disbursement and debt relief
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe government breezed through the multi-bill vote on Sunday and has put the ball in the lenders’ court regarding the disbursement of bailout funds and debt relief. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras saw.... Other late changes saw the tax on beer increase from June 1, 2016 (instead of of Jan 1, 2018
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