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Newsletter 501 - 03/04/2026
on the B1 bridge near Tehran yesterday. For Greece, the crisis has shifted from an acute shock... as oil, energy, and raw material prices increased, pushing operating expenses up at the fastest rate
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Newsletter 511 - 03/07/2026
, 57.5% of SYRIZA’s 2023 voters now say they will vote for ELAS, confirming the near‑total migration... to another marked increase in operating costs. Higher transportation, fuel, energy, and raw material
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Newsletter 384 - 09/06/2023
elections near, Kyriakos Mitsotakis is intensifying his efforts to convince voters to back his party... as the post pandemic bounce has run its course, tourism is near full recovery, at pre-pandemic levels... chain globally that led firms revving up production of goods while stock of raw materials
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Income and living conditions survey shows persisting inequality
Societylight on the economic conditions experienced by Greeks in the reference year 2016, including material deprivation, income inequality and risk of poverty. The data released showed that material deprivation stands at 21.1 percent, with reference data from 2016. According to the findings, material
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What Greece imports and why
EconomyFeaturesin particular have remained at low levels and not got near to their pre-crisis levels, dropping after 2014... imports shows that energy leads the way, with mineral fuels, lubricants and other materials coming... million euros. From Russia, Greece imports 2.81 billion euros of materials under “Mineral fuels
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Goalposts shift as European elections near and SYRIZA cements lead
PoliticsGreek PoliticsA look at recent opinion polls would tell you that the Greek government is under pressure going into the local and European Parliament elections in May but New Democracy and PASOK’s anxiety is also evident from the fact that the two parties are altering...
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Tension builds in Greek coalition and with SYRIZA as elections near
PoliticsGreek PoliticsTension is building on Greece’s political scene as the local and European Parliament elections approach, with divisions emerging within the coalition and the verbal exchanges between governing parties and the opposition intensifying. With PASOK struggli...
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Greek GDP drops by less than expected 0.2 pct in Q2, signalling recession exit near
EconomyMacroeconomyThe Greek economy recorded the 24th consecutive period of decline in Q2 of 2014 as Gross Domestic Product measured in constant prices declined by 0.2 percent year on year, which was better than the estimates for a -0.4 percent drop. The first quarter wa...
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SYRIZA shows keener interest in foreign policy as possible elections near
PoliticsForeign PolicySeeing the government close to buckling under the pressure of having to meet the troika's targets, SYRIZA's Alexis Tsipras chose to inflict his own kind of pain on Wednesday, when he claimed that a leftist government would not be bound by the demands ma...
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So far and yet so near for Greece and eurozone after second abortive Eurogroup
PoliticsGreek PoliticsFor the second Eurogroup running, Greece and the eurozone failed to reach an agreement on how to move forward. However, an apparent acrimonious falling out may be less damaging than it first appears and, in essence, the two sides do not seem to be far a...
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