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Where is Odysseus? Part 4 - Unemployment and Employment
Agora. One could ask why Greece wound up with such a sky-high unemployment rate during the crisis, in the first place. Discussions with labor groups prior to the crisis revealed one very interesting... in this view was that when one is in a currency union, domestic inflation is no longer the relevant
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Parties tussle over scope of surveillance probe as latest poll puts Mitsotakis in frame
PoliticsGreek Politics-tapping. A total of 142 opposition MPs voted for the centre-left party’s motion (one was absent). Only... conclusion. Parliamentary speaker Konstantinos Tassoulas said that the panel will have one month to deliver... the prime minister. The prospect of Mitsotakis testifying is one that ND will try to avoid, despite
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Fitch leaves rating unchanged at 'BB', sees small recession and primary deficit next year
Economyunchanged, leaving the agency one notch behind S&P that has Greece at ‘BB+’ and two notches from investment grade. It is also one notch ahead of Moody’s that has its own scale and is currently at ‘Ba3’. Fitch last upgraded Greece in January 2020 by one notch, while the latest upgrade for the country came
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S&P leaves Greece a notch away from investment grade as outlook blurs
EconomyGreece had one rating upgrade by S&P in April to just one notch away from investment grade and one... goal of returning to the top rating. A few days earlier, Fitch left the rating at ‘BB’, which is one notch behind S&P and Moody’s last month also kept Greece at ‘Ba3’, which is one notch behind Fitch
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MPs aim to probe spyware as govt brushes off latest reports
PoliticsGreek PoliticsParliament’s institutions and transparency committee is due to hear on Monday from one of the key.... It was notable that the ruling party has replaced one of its MPs on the committee, Konstantinos... SYRIZA and one each from the four other parties represented in Parliament. Dimitriadis’s appearance
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Newsletter 368 - 03/02/2023
one more handout before the elections. The outperformance last year reached around 400 million euros... winner. Any indication by Androulakis of a leaning towards either one of the main rivals therefore..., in the first rating review of the year, upped Greece’s credit rating by one notch to ‘BB+’. Greece
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Macroeconomic fundamentals for Greece
Agorawill sort themselves out without the government careening from one edge of the pinball machine... not be directly observable. One needs proxies or a different way of thinking to see them. For instance, in managing the macroeconomy, one may talk about the level and growth rate of potential real GDP
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SYRIZA on defensive as election campaign draws to close
PoliticsGreek Politicsin one of the worst possible ways as one of its leading figures, and a former minister, Giorgos... in 2015 is one that the party has never been able to shake off and the ex-minister’s comments seemed... strategies is one of the reasons that New Democracy is entering the final days of the campaign
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Newsletter 385 - 16/06/2023
to a decisive victory in the June 25 elections – one that will hand his New Democracy party a majority... amount to a confirmation of their first vote, and only one in four said their vote would... a point down on its May 25 result, SYRIZA 19.2 pct, almost one point down, and PASOK 11.1 pct, again
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Where are the Conservatives?
Agorathan one based on an ideological projection of being perceived as left, center-left, center-right... of them, without feeling any political pressure to sign up for one preference over another. Above... we have instead is a fusion of political streams that all have one thing in common: populism. All
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