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Greece is gasping for a deal
Agora, further draining the liquidity in the country’s economy. In fact, while all the attention has fallen... default has been avoided, but they also bring greater anxiety that a default is getting closer. Greece has not received any bailout funding from its lenders since August but has kept meeting its debt
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Newsletter 420 - 12/04/2024
appearances around the country as ND seeks to tap into his personal popularity, which has not waned.... Government officials have downplayed the significance of the decision, arguing that it has limited... ministers such as Yiannis Maniatis and Philippos Sachinidis. SYRIZA leader Stefanos Kasselakis has opted
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Greece in danger of repeating familiar mistakes with Golden Dawn
Agora, wean them off Golden Dawn’s poisonous populism. Can anyone do it? So far, the answer has been...-Nazi party, which has proved a challenge Greece’s political system has been unable to tackle..., which erupted shortly after the 2009 polls, has created fertile ground for extremists. Six years
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Newsletter 99 - 09/12/2016
posted in 2007, Greece’s wealth has plummeted by 622 million or around 40 percent, while the respective average European figure has decreased by less than 10 percent. According to preliminary figures... channel indicates that the gap between SYRIZA and New Democracy has widened over the last few
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Draft budget maps out narrow fiscal path for coming years
EconomyMacroeconomysurpluses in that region for decades. The inflation wave that started after the Ukraine conflict has... transactions, as well as higher VAT revenues. The measure was rolled out before the summer so it will be easier to measure its efficiency in due course. Although the government’s line of argument holds
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House of cards (The rise and fall of Akis Tsochatzopoulos)
Agoraa way to measure people’s units of thought, they would discover that the British think in pints... meters. This is the yardstick that many Greeks use to measure their social status, their wealth... wife, ex-wife, daughter and cousin. The only square meters Tsochatzopoulos can measure now
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Mitsotakis argues there is no alternative as SYRIZA officials push Kasselakis out
PoliticsGreek Politicsto a “safe port” in 2027. He said that his administration has 1,000 days ahead of it until..., New Democracy is still the only party that has a credible plan and the ability to govern. The PM... revenues has paved the way for this year’s spending to increase from 3 to 3.5 billion euros, allowing
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Newsletter 356 - 21/10/2022
November, though. The Finance Ministry already has 1 billion euros set aside for any energy needs... to pay off in political terms as voters can measure the assistance more easily. Nevertheless, this has not stopped criticism from the opposition. This week, SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras criticised
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Optimism in Athens as Cyprus talks move into delicate phase
PoliticsForeign PolicyThe Cyprus issue has entered a critical phase ahead of a new round of talks between Cyprus... that there has been “significant progress” on the issue of territory but it remains to be seen... Kotzias appeared cautiously optimistic about how negotiations are going. “I think that the Cyprus issue
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What's in an Irish border?
Agorathe dividing line between two countries. He has one leg suspended in mid-air, like a stork. ‘If I take one more step I am... somewhere else, or... I die’. The reality of borders between EU member sates... the significant progress that has been achieved in one of the most impoverished areas of the UK by creating
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