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Will the real men of unity please stand up?
Agorapenchant for not wearing ties has been the cause of lightheartedness from the moment SYRIZA came to power.... Tsipras, after all, has answered numerous questions about his refusal to wear ties and has been able... Varoufakis’s tendency not to tuck in his shirt has also drawn numerous, mostly negative, comments
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Newsletter 19 - 13/03/2015
and the European Stability Mechanism in Brussels. It is the first time that the ESM has had such a role.... The government has managed to survive another week within very tight conditions and reportedly repaid... in the Hellenic Financial Stability Facility (HFSF) after the ESM clarified that it has no legal
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Greece: After a deal, work on a solution
Agorathe polls currently suggest that Syriza has a comfortable lead, the consequences of rejecting a deal... finance minister, Wolfgang Schäuble, alongside CDU rebels? The answer has to be no: reports... are labour market and pension reforms, and the pace of fiscal consolidation. Greece has liberalised
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Amid fog of confusion, Greeks vote... again
Agora. The parties have failed to make it clear what this election is about. SYRIZA has focussed on the new versus... up the system. New Democracy has made this campaign about the issue of trust and whether Greeks can put their faith in Alexis Tsipras again after his erratic time in office. Neither theme has really
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Will Tsipras ride the waves in 2016?
Agoraan end to the Greek bailouts and the troika’s demands but has spent the last part of 2015 implementing... settled, the re-elected SYRIZA-led government has passed in Parliament measures that even... to private investors. On top of this, the government has also completed two privatisations launched
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Greek pensions: The unsolvable equation
AgoraGreece back into political anxiety. Historically, the pension system has been a major bone of political... of funding pensions and benefits has been one of the key factors that contributed... is still roughly 800,000 short of what it was back in May 2010. This has made a huge dent in social
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Newsletter 76 - 03/06/2016
some doubt over whether the EU–Turkey agreement on the refugee crisis, which has played a vital... revised 7.6 percent fall in February. The March figure means that the index has been falling for 10 months.... There has been much gnashing of teeth over the last few days after coalition MP Giorgos Kyritsis, who
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Newsletter 83 - 22/07/2016
Mitsotakis has said he will try to prevent it ever applying by submitting a new proposal... of the military and public administration that followed, has injected fresh uncertainty into the two.... Athens has given no indication that it is willing to grant asylum to the eight but wants to ensure
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What could Trump's victory mean for Greece?
AgoraLausanne Treaty establishing Greek sovereignty over Aegean islands, feels he has a good working... phase, with the Greek- and Turkish-Cypriot leaders locked in talks in Switzerland. Washington has... it also purchases arms from the USA. Trump has displayed scepticism of NATO, while flirting with Russian
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Newsletter 97 - 25/11/2016
by granting social allowances worth 871 million. The government has left its macro assumptions... billion. As a result, the NPE stock has dropped by 1.9 billion since the beginning of the year. NBG... Democracy is a very sensitive subject within the other two opposition parties. Potami has already
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