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Newsletter 207 -24/05/2019
) than the opposition. SYRIZA is hoping that it will be able to match or get close to the 26.5 percent... suggest that more than 10 percent of voters are undecided. It is this audience that Mitsotakis... than expected. For Tsipras to be under the kind of pressure that would make it very difficult
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Tracing the decline of the middle class as parties vie for its votes
EconomyFeatures) households’ disposable income fell by more than a third between 2010-2016 and has shown only... portion of them will have ended up lower down the scale due to lower incomes rather than exiting.... In most cases, the increases were steeper under SYRIZA than their predecessors. Households in the 5,000
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Newsletter 214 -12/07/2019
that comprise his cabinet were sworn in the following day. This was larger than the smaller, flexible team many... for renegotiating the target. Parliament is due to close for less than two weeks from August 10 onwards. Once... noted that Greece is in better shape than a few years ago, with a large cash buffer and low bond
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Post-election blamestorming or Why Harris lost and the Democrats should nominate Oprah
Agoracomic act and less than five years after the storming of the Capitol by an angry mob of MAGA... Clinton, by way of his decades of experience in the Senate. Biden had no such need for Harris other than... answer the question amongst undecided voters prepared to vote for someone other than Trump as to who she
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Debt relief or debt restructuring for Greece?
Agora. It took no less than European Commissioner for Employment Laszlo Andor of Hungary to get... to the conclusion of the first economic adjustment programme more than 85 percent of Greece’s sovereign debt... output in 2013 would surpass by more than 20 percent where Greece’s debt-to-GDP ratio stood in 2010
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Sowing the seeds of anomie in Greece
Agoraimplored the party’s lawmakers to be “whiter than white, purer than pure”. Unfortunately, it didn’t... to the hilt. It appears to be a case of wanting to avoid short-term political pain rather than laying... in questionable, or downright criminal, activity has been damaging for Greece, its ability to get away with it has
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Primary surplus beat target in 2015 on higher revenues and restrained spending
Economythis non-recurring revenue, which is not included in the fiscal target agreed with lenders, we get... marked by lower than expected primary expenditure by 626 million as well as higher than targeted Public... higher than target. Despite dropping by 294 million to 3.18 billion (1.8 percent of GDP), property
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Newsletter 93 - 21/10/2016
between Athens and institution' mission chiefs get underway The short-term recessionary impact... accounted for less than 39 percent of total hirings, which is by far the lowest reading in the course of this year. This means that flexible types of work made up more than 6 out of 10 hirings. The largest
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Wolfgang at the door
Agorathe Germans, who had implemented the challenging Hartz reforms provide outright solidarity, rather than... and recovered much more slowly than the US did after experiencing its massive financial crisis. During... more than 40 billion euros through lower interest rates on its government debt, while a study
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Part-time work, low pay characterise crisis-era job market
Societythan through a permanent position. Around one third of respondents (32 percent) said that the job... they had been insured for fewer hours than what they worked and 9.3 percent worked without insurance.... One in five of all workers made less than 500 euros a month, of which 11.2 percent were men
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