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  1. A moment to reflect, not celebrate

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    be a moment for reflection, rather than celebration. The last eight years have been marked by avoidable... with a comforting sense of detachment, rather than an actual country with real people and flawed politicians facing... a soap opera playing out on their TV screens rather than a series of events causing real upheaval

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  2. Greek leaders' contrasting visions all a blur
    Photo via @kmitsotakis

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    because it has the power to get the weakest back on their feet and provide them with the protection... percent) than is currently expected. The opposition leader proposed a range of policies to help..., the cost is substantially higher than the pledges made by the prime minister, which were seen

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  3. The main economic challenges that will define the Mitsotakis reign

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    better economic shape than in it has been for many years. While many of the scars of the long... continuously since the first quarter of 2017, while employment has grown by more than 300,000, which has... buffer purported to be more than 35 billion euros. Even Mitsotakis admitted in a recent interview

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  4. Promises, promises
    Photo by Myrto Papadopoulos [www.myrtopapadopoulos.com]

    Agora

    , is now ready for a different style of politics, more in keeping with a European boardroom than an Oriental bazaar. It is true that Mitsotakis took a more low-key approach than many previous party... was more measured than Greek voters had been accustomed to. It is also true that he bucked

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  5. Newsletter 282 -29/01/2021

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    President Recep Tayyip Erdogan may be trying to get in the good books of the incoming Biden..., rather than focussing just on the matter Greece is willing to discuss – the delineation... billion euros of offers in less than two hours. Given the strong momentum, the book was officially

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  6. Montenegro's vaccination adventure: Lord, bless us with good health
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    Agora

    in February more than 150 people died as a result of COVID-19. Another infamous record was broken on March 8... focusing on politics for more than half a year. At the end of August, for the first time in 30 years... more telling than this is the fact that there was absolutely no interest of the public and the media

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  7. The case for a general government balance sheet

    Agora

    of GDP is much deeper than the -42 percent of GDP for the Euro Area-19 as a whole (Euro-19 includes... (according to the Maastricht criterion). The reader may verify that financial liabilities are larger than... does, then the financial net worth to support our governments is even worse than if we include

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  8. Does the EU Commission suffer from optimism bias? (Part 1)
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    Agora

    . The EC growth outlook in its “baseline” scenario is higher than the “high” or optimistic scenario... rebound in employment shortly after the Covid shock to the EU economy than foreseen by the EC... that the EC assumes that the EU27 growth rate in average labor productivity going forward will more than

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  9. Newsletter 390 - 21/07/2023

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    , looks set to pass through Parliament with a super-majority (more than 200 out of 300 votes) thanks..., west of Athens, is thought to have burned more than 1,500 hectares of land and damaged... that preparation for the fire season began earlier than ever this year, in January. It also argues

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  10. Nobody has less confidence in their government than the Greeks, OECD finds
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    The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has published its annual Government at a Glance report for 2013. The study includes some interesting data on Greece, particularly with regard to people’s plummeting trust in decision maker...

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