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  1. Tech start-ups click into place to fight off Greek recession
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    Society

    of companies have also been founded during the crisis. Starting a business is one of the ways Greeks have... of almost 1.6 billion euros in subsidies applied to the scheme. Just 456 million euros was available. One... and the number of people it employees rose by 20 percent. Upstream has become one of the five largest mobile

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  2. Greece's ultimate sacrifice for stability
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    Agora

    One of the ironies about the video showing ex-cabinet secretary Takis Baltakos in a furtive... of double agent, giving Golden Dawn MPs harmless morsels in order to glean information from them. One has... Department described as supporting “virulent nationalism, anti-Semitism, racism and xenophobia.” One

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  3. Newsletter 18 - 06/03/2015

    Newsletters

    more evident as time passes. One of these is a result of Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis straying... of economic issues than most within SYRIZA. One of the matters on which his opinion deviates from... wages issue also points to one of the other causes of friction within the government, which

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  4. Bank holiday to end but capital controls remain and some transactions forbidden
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    Economy

    servicing pensioners to withdraw 120 euros from their pensions in one transaction once or twice a week..., money not withdrawn in one or more days may be withdrawn in one go per week (up to 420 euros per week). Until now, if a depositor did not withdraw the 60 euros in one or more days, this amount could

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  5. Newsletter 59 - 22/01/2016

    Newsletters

    ceiling than the one contained in the government’s initial proposal. At the same time, farmers... deal than the one they have proposed. days. Following a teleconference with the institutions... more tension and result in a harsher pension reform than the one currently under debate. Meanwhile

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  6. Greek pensions: The unsolvable equation
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    Agora

    of funding pensions and benefits has been one of the key factors that contributed... state is a significant contributor to the social security sector and is one of their main pillars... security contributions, one of the key funding pillars of the system, which were more than 22

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  7. Greek teenagers' behaviour charted
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    Society

    Of the one in four Greeks teenagers aged 15 who say they have had sexual intercourse, most say... was conducted. One in six boys and one in four girls surveyed said they or their partners did not use... 15. One in five said they had sex at the age of 14 and one in 10 at the age of 13. The survey also

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  8. Newsletter 78 - 17/06/2016

    Newsletters

    voters bought the argument, though, and one of the reasons was that the politicians arguing... to protect its interests. The same argument has been made in the UK, where one of the Conservative... in one case, for everyone from academics to world leaders. In Greece, as perhaps in Britain, this lack

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  9. Uncomfortable parallels: The Greek and British referendums
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    Agora

    being exaggerated was correct. Many voters bought the argument, though, and one of the reasons..., where one of the Conservative politicians in favour of leaving the EU, Michael Gove, argued... of distrust, even edging above 80 percent in one case, for everyone from academics to world leaders

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  10. Newsletter 90 - 30/09/2016

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    of attempting to make a breakthrough with lenders with one hand and trying to fend off attacks from... with the country’s lenders. One key advance came on Wednesday, when government MPs approved a multi-bill... of the year. It remains one of the few positive pieces of news that the government can dangle

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