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Helmut Schmidt, Greece and a valuable legacy for Europe
Agoraof leaders past rather than a measured assessment of what they offered. Like all politicians, Schmidt... cultivated prejudices and phobias rather than stand against them. This is where Schmidt’s contribution is so valuable. He was more resolute than to be shoved one way and then the other by developments
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Q3 GDP slips 0.9 pct QoQ on lower private consumption and investment
EconomyMacroeconomypercent YoY. Private consumption is the largest contributor, making up more than 69 percent of 2015 GDP... a nosedive by more than 32 percent in disposable income attributed to heightened unemployment, a series... decrease, also reflecting a double-digit growth in Q1. Since 2008, investment plunged by more than 68
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Newsletter 53 - 27/11/2015
losses to more than 90 percent over the past three months. As a result, the four core banks’ market value... as party leader to help his re-election campaign rather than competing against the other candidates... accusations that Sunday’s failure may have been the result of sabotage rather than incompetence
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Newsletter 56 - 18/12/2015
will be needed on January 10 if none of the four candidates wins more than 50 percent of the vote...-wing than the centre, which would be a continuation of the path on which Antonis Samaras set the party... euros, 21.9 percent higher than last year and 1.7 billion better than the target. After 11 months
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Notable increase in grants to social security sector leads to budget primary deficit in Nov
Economythan offsetting a revenue shortfall of 1.43 billion. November revenues and primary expenditure exceeded... billion lower than target. Expenditure As already evident in the preliminary figures, primary... by 1.7 percent to 42.49 billion, 2.34 billion better than target. The latter also reflects notably
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New Democracy counts down to Sunday's leadership vote
PoliticsGreek Politicsof areas. According to the Pulse poll, 38 percent of voters think Mitsotakis would be better than... their faith in Meimarakis. Meimarakis, however, does better than his opponent when voters are asked... levels of the party may prove more potent on Sunday than Mitsotakis’s active campaign, which included
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Search for solutions, not scapegoats in EU's refugee crisis
Agorayear (more than 850,000 arrived in Greece compared to 43,500 in 2014 – an almost 20-fold increase... on trying to find ways to pass around responsibility rather than to come up with a plan to respond... member states have been slow in providing personnel, rather than anything to do with Greek reluctance
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Declining flow of refugees gives struggling government some hope
PoliticsForeign Policybeen an average of 996 refugee arrivals per day. This is substantially lower than the daily average... on Monday, there are no more than 5,300 people (out of a total of just over 50,000) at the reception... arrivals for March appear well down on February's, they are far higher than the figures for last
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Asking Greece to stack more austerity measures ignores past failings
Agorawill need to implement 3 percent of GDP, more than 5 billion euros, in further austerity measures up... could find in the markets better rates than those charged by the IMF, justifying the government plan... an upwards-revised surplus of 705 million euros. This meant the target was missed by more than 2
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Newsletter 73 - 13/05/2016
reducing the tax-free threshold for taxpayers with fewer than two children or none, while the tax... unlock more than 5.7 billion euros, which will not only cover financing needs but also fund... Mouzalas to “Macedonia” rather than the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, coalition partner
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