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  1. PASOK's future hangs in balance as Greece prepares for EU vote
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    percent of the vote. Getting even less than this in the EU vote would be a serious blow to PASOK... anything more than help overcome turbulence in the short-term. Equally, if Venizelos calls a party... in the EU elections prove better than expected then Venizelos will be under much less pressure, especially

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  2. EU vote highlights Greek center-left's urgent need for renewal
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    The expectation that the PASOK-led Elia alliance would receive less than the 8 percent it got... accepted that the government’s legitimacy would be in question if Elia did not gain more than 10..., Greece's far right parties, Golden Dawn and LAOS, came away with more than 12 percent. Compared

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  3. Data for May shows Greek PMI in growth territory for second straight month

    EconomyMacroeconomy

    in production levels in May was slightly lower than that in April, but it remained solid, according... levels was slightly higher than that of inflows of new orders partly reflecting the continued progress... since the end of 2007, although the rate of job creation was slower than that posted in April. Firms

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  4. In the absence of light, darkness grows
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    Agora

    that although Golden Dawn won about 95,000 votes more than it did in the 2012 elections, this proves... Democracy, which lost more than 525,000 votes since June 2012? Even if we were to set all this aside... the last two years. If they had, the conclusions they would have drawn might have elicited more than

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  5. Budget execution shows primary surplus of 711 mln, 503 mln ahead of target

    EconomyMacroeconomy

    revision mainly reflects higher forecasts for revenues (by 1 billion), more than offsetting higher... of 620 million to April) more than offsetting lower Public Investment Budget (PIB) balance (-129 million... is lower than the 495 million recorded in April. In contrast, the May budget deficit stood at 839

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  6. Political tremors shake Spain, overshadow economic progress
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    Agora

    parties The PP and the PSOE’s joint share plummeted to less than 50 percent for the first time... for these two parties totalled 16.5 percent of the votes, seven percentage points less than the PSOE. However... jobless people. Around 60% of them have not worked for more than a year nor did 1.2 million workers over

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  7. Drop ‘til you shop
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    Agora

    of consumers of need rather than choice. Nevertheless, this is the debate that has been prompted... is that most Greeks simply do not have enough money to shop anything other than pretty much the basics... for working on Sundays if the scheme is to be anything other than a cheap stunt for owners to pocket

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  8. UnLuCky for some: Another painful lesson from the euro crisis
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    Agora

    the damage on the economy and employment than had been thought initially. When this was combined... they did not control. The euro’s problems suddenly became national rather than common. Until... than resources who managed to keep their employment. Even if you want to take the “Protestant” view

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  9. Parliament's budget office sees Greek recovery finely poised

    EconomyMacroeconomy

    that the Greek economy could grow by more than expected this year but that a series of concerns... weigh on the recovery. The PBO estimates that the economic recovery this year may be stronger than... is one of the biggest in the world, higher than that of other countries with systemic crises

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  10. The tarnished legacy that will haunt the Athens Olympics

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    warned the euro area that its public debt and deficit figures would be worse than expected. The deficit for 2004 came in at 6.1 percent, more than double the eurozone limit, while Greece’s debt... have been held accountable? Greek taxpayers, who were largely the victims rather than perpetrators

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