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Government courts backlash over squat raids, while opposition is absorbed in internal debate
PoliticsGreek Politicsbuses, were broadcast live on TV, drawing criticism from the opposition and from human rights... on Human Rights, while the police have started a disciplinary inquiry. In an attempt to manage... circumstances. Historically, the party had developed a very strong message on human rights issues and had
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ND looks to asylum bill, strong rhetoric to ease pressure from migration flows
PoliticsGreek Politicsof refugee flows, combating human trafficking and more funds to support asylum seekers to rebuild... assembly later this week, has been criticised by human rights groups. Groups including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and Doctors Without Borders held a joint press conference in Athens
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Does the EU Commission suffer from optimism bias? (Part 2)
Agora, Fast and Slow,” the psychologist Daniel Kahneman explains that human beings are often “not rational...” (Thinking, Fast and Slow, page 252) Mr. Kahneman also explains that such biases are entirely human... that the true baseline sits several degrees below the indicated one. We are all human and we all want
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ND suffers ratings blow after train crash, hopes time is on its side
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe accident was a matter of human error or whether there are other issues that needed to be discussed... by the human error argument that Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis initially offered as an explanation.... The dangers highlighted included those of human error, particularly by station masters. A key line
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New political storm heads towards PM following report on Tempe recordings
PoliticsGreek Politicsof human error more plausible. Sunday’s edition of To Vima contained a report which claimed... in the Greek media was edited. The government added in its official response that the “human error” element... that there is a concerted effort to destabilise the government by taking advantage of the human suffering caused
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PM defends stance on Turkey and troubled electricity cable project
PoliticsForeign Policyrelationship with Israel has not stopped him from voicing his concerns about the human suffering caused... about the way it is conducting its operation in Gaza, the unimaginable human pain and loss of human life
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IMF trims 1 point off 2022 growth, makes major revision to inflation forecast
EconomyMacroeconomyunder the current commitments expect Greece to return to a 2.2 pct of GDP surplus by 2024 and maintain...The International Monetary Fund (IMF) released its latest global macro and fiscal estimates... and by 2027 at 44.8 pct. Overall, the IMF is now aligned with the estimates of the Greek and European
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Newsletter 154 -9/03/2018
to the Hellenic Statistical Authority’s (ELSTAT) first estimate released this week. The headline figure came in below the Ministry of Finance’s (MoF) final budget estimate of 1.6 percent. The figure.... For 2018, the MoF revised upwards the growth estimate to 2.5 percent from 2.4 percent in the draft budget
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Newsletter 160 -04/05/2018
the country to grow by 1.9 percent this year, down from 2.5 percent previously. The estimate for next year... this year and 0.9 percent in 2019. The estimate for 2018 is less than half the previous 1.2 percent growth... estimate of 2.3 percent for this year and 2.6 percent for next year, although this may be revised
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IMF sees 2024 growth at 2 pct, debt on downward trend due to high primary surpluses
EconomyMacroeconomyby 2 pct in 2024, the same estimate as in October’s WEO. Next year’s growth is also broadly unchanged, with the growth estimate at 1.9 pct. The Fund remains significantly more conservative than the Greek Finance Ministry’s 2.9 pct growth estimate, which was the basis for the 2024 budget. The longer
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