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  1. One night in Cannes

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    crisis than (then Prime Minister) George Papandreou's decision on October 31 2011 to announce... they decided they would rather deal with the potentially catastrophic fallout from a Greek exit rather than... to the first bailout, Samaras would have had to put up and shut up. His opportunist anti-austerity facade

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  2. PASOK's future hangs in balance as Greece prepares for EU vote
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    is at the lower end of this spectrum on Sunday then PASOK’s future will certainly be put in doubt... 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

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  3. Drop ‘til you shop
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    of consumers of need rather than choice. Nevertheless, this is the debate that has been prompted... Sunday opening) but let’s leave that aside. The argument behind Sunday opening, as put forward in other... is that most Greeks simply do not have enough money to shop anything other than pretty much the basics

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  4. UnLuCky for some: Another painful lesson from the euro crisis
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    the damage on the economy and employment than had been thought initially. When this was combined... any punches, the report threw all the dirty water – as Olli Rehn put it - on the European Commission... they did not control. The euro’s problems suddenly became national rather than common. Until

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  5. A little more persuasion, a little less reaction
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    Dawn rather than SYRIZA, but a man with such an open and frequently declared affection for Greece... as a “committed European” and openly expressing its support for his candidacy, which had yet to be put... of progress through the synthesis of opinions and ideas. “It would help if, rather than fearing democracy

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  6. Top SYRIZA officials hint at path to compromise with eurozone
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    servicing costs, rather than a reduction in the principal. Giorgos Stathakis, who is likely to take up... that have been discussed at a European level and would put a new government led by the leftists much closer to an agreement than had seemed the case for the last few months. New programme SYRIZA’s

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  7. New Greek cabinet a mixed bag, prompting hope and concern
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    should be to reduce annual interest payments to less than 2.5 percent from the current 4.3 percent rather than a reduction in the principal. Stathakis's department will also be responsible for two key... was foreign minister more than a decade ago. More recently, he has worked as a professor

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  8. Samaras future unclear as New Democracy enters period of introspection

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    committee on Thursday, when he pointed out that the party had lost less than 2 percentage points... also underlined that the party had gained more than 400,000 votes since the European Parliament... convincing. His critics will point out that the conservatives lost more than 100,000 votes compared

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  9. The alternative of (tax-based) capital controls for Greece
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    leverage in the negotiations than they appear to think. Unless they were willing to put the Grexit option.... Capital controls would be less costly for Greece than Grexit. Moreover, capital controls would... greater cost for Greece than capital controls, it would be unlikely for Greece to go through

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  10. Will the real men of unity please stand up?
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    rather than joke. After all, would humorous references about the way that politicians from other... like the statements SYRIZA put out while in opposition. The language reflects a mindset that is still... to the “troika” of lenders, rather than the “institutions” mentioned in official documents, knowing this would

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