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Newsletter 53 - 27/11/2015
of hands to guide the country to calmer waters. However, those claims now appear very wide of the mark... for homeowners. Now, Tsipras – who eschewed any government offer to find common ground while in opposition – has... such dissenters by pointing to the political wilderness were the previous rebels now find themselves
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Newsletter 60 - 29/01/2016
near any table around which EU decision makers gather. For some years now, and especially over... that Greece now has 68 Eurodac machines, which were provided after repeated calls for assistance from Athens. A sign that the process is now more robust is that, according to Frontex, the proportion
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The refugee crisis and the beast within
Agoranow. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras described it as a Ku Klux Klan-type action, intentionally... of thousands of people from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.** Until now, Greek society has largely... of the refugee crisis in Greece appears to be changing dramatically now. An average of around 2,000 people a day
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Paddling with a wooden spoon
Agoranow and that immediate and unconditional debt relief would be needed. Officials from the Washington... brief was to get a deal on Greece done now, before the British referendum, Spanish elections...), the IMF will not walk away from the bailout, at least for now, and there will be only minor
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Crisis management policy: the sad lesson of the Greek case
Agoraeveryone eventually dies. Unfortunately, we are now witnessing a different kind of tragedy... fiscal tightening of three percent of GDP was necessary from this point of departure, while the IMF now... by 25 percent since the outbreak of the crisis, and are now relatively lower compared to other euro
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Newsletter 82 - 15/07/2016
to forge ahead with the change now, despite critics accusing the government of only advocating... the decades of carefully constructed ties with EU member states and institutions that will now... defined by strong words and weak actions. Renzi now faces the possibility that his country’s banks
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Newsletter 86 - 26/08/2016
All Marinopoulos stores will now be rebranded as Sklavenitis under the takeover deal. plan includes... to 59.62 billion and T-Bills stand at 14.87 billion euros. Bailout loans now account for almost 69 percent... percent in 2009, almost four in ten Greeks are now facing material deprivation in terms of basic standards
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IMF upgrades Greece’s GDP and unemployment rate estimates
![Photo via IMF photostream on Flickr [https://www.flickr.com/photos/imfphoto/]](resources/toolip/img-thumb/2014/08/11/imf_439_1108-medium.jpg "Photo via IMF photostream on Flickr [https://www.flickr.com/photos/imfphoto/]")
EconomyMacroeconomyforecasts released on April 12. GDP is now expected to grow by 0.1 percent in 2016 compared.... The IMF also upward revised its projection for GDP growth next year, which is now seen at 2.8 percent from... on Greece’s unemployment rate which is now seen lower by 1.7 percentage points to 23.3 percent
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Newsletter 93 - 21/10/2016
relief should it complete the second review (short-term measures now, medium- and long-term measures... primary surplus and a higher debt for 2015. In specific, the primary surplus now stands at 259 million... on debt relief measures “should start now and conclude as soon as possible”. BoG data showed
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Newsletter 94 - 04/11/2016
Nicosia Cyprus suffered terribly as result of the fell swoop landed in 2013, but it is now able...: Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain and Cyprus. Four of these are now success stories,” said Regling... the years but we’ve arrived at a point now where more than 80 percent of public spending is on wages
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