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Newsletter 20 - 20/03/2015
with the technical teams sent to Athens has been limited, a major point of friction was created when... and not vice versa is a key point of departure. The chancellor phoned him on Monday afternoon and he... in Brussels, where the most recent one took place on Thursday. It is important to point out
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Unemployment rate at 25.7 pct in Jan, lowest since Aug 2012
EconomyMacroeconomypercentage point to 26.8 percent in December. The monthly change in January’s SA jobless rate mainly..., the aggregate figures point to a cumulative drop of 22.5 percent corresponding to 1,027,300 lower... by the European Commission in early February point to a decline of the unemployment rate from 26.6
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Greek coalition braces for internal debate over agreement with lenders
PoliticsGreek Politicswill point to the fact that the government has avoided scrapping the benefit for low-income pensioners (EKAS), as well as a 10 percentage point rise in VAT on electricity. Labour Minister Panos Skourletis also suggested that collective bargaining would return, which will be another useful selling point
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Newsletter 39 - 21/08/2015
before Greeks go to their polling stations. Meimarakis made a point of meeting parliamentary speaker Zoi..., 61-year-old career politician Evangelos Meimarakis, has made a point of saying he will renew... but pushing PASOK on from this low point will require more drive and vision than has been on view during
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Latest polls add to uncertainty ahead of Sunday's elections
PoliticsGreek Politicsof Macedonia poll for Skai TV, which had put SYRIZA 1 point ahead last Friday now shows New Democracy with a lead of half a point. A Prorata poll for Efimerida ton Syntakton newspaper still shows SYRIZA ahead (by four points) but with its lead narrowing by 1 point since last week. Kapa Research shows
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Newsletter 45 - 02/10/2015
than 15 November”. Although current estimates point to a lower level of official sector... or centre-right of the political spectrum. According to Public Issue, there was a 9.2 point increase... to the role that its EU partners believe it should fulfil as a point of entry. The European Commission
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Crumbling Greek pension system threatens big fiscal gap, budget derailment
Economykey figures for each pension fund that point to a bleak outlook for the social security sector... grants supplementary pensions and the latest figures point to 1.09 million pensions, with a monthly... funds and ETEA point to 142,644 pending main pensions and 129,885 pending supplementary pensions
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Gov't mounts defence of pension plan but lenders' approval may take time
PoliticsGreek Politics. On Wednesday, the coalition announced a point-by-point rebuttal of opposition criticism regarding its... pensions would increase by 1 percentage point (from 3 to 4 percent). Government spokeswoman Olga
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Uncomfortable parallels: The Greek and British referendums
Agora) is a worse place now than it was at some foggy point in the past where we achieved peak Blighty.” Last year... and doing away with the annoying details of reality, what the experts says and what the numbers point... – of the myths that politicians have only been too happy to allow to flourish because at some point it served
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Athens sticks by effort to build bridges with FYROM
PoliticsForeign Policycounterpart, Nikola Poposki, did not discuss the name issue, as “there was no point” given... at the most difficult point in the refugee crisis. Amid new concerns over how the crisis will evolve... and Skopje that will allow the resolution of the name issue at some point in the future. According
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