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Benefits and banana skins for Greece in EU-Turkey refugee deal
PoliticsForeign Policy· A commitment to take in one Syrian refugee directly from Turkey for each one returned from Greece's Aegean... seekers will take part and there is no quota set by Brussels to keep to. This could be one... to open now as it fears it may lose one of the points of leverage available to convince Turkey to back
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The diversions of the past
Agoraand embarking on a destructive and divisive seven-year reign of terror and backwardness, one would have thought... that Greeks are capable of leaving the disunion of the past behind them. One would have thought... far-left, ideology. Of course, one could argue that Greek urban guerrilla groups
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Davutoglu departure prompts concern about Turkish unpredictability in Athens
PoliticsForeign Policypolitical crisis in neighboring country as no one can make safe predictions on what the consequences... with the Europeans during negotiations. According to EU sources, the proposal based on the one-for-one (meaning that for every refugee returned to Turkey, one will be resettled from Turkey to Europe) was Davutoglu’s
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Eurobank turns profitable in Q1 for first time since Q3 2011, with net profit of 60 mln
EconomyBankingof 94.4 million in the previous one. This was the first profitable quarter for the bank after seventeen quarters since Q3 2011. It is worth noting that stripping out a one-off gain of 57 million posted... income of 63.5 million in Q1, from -7.5 million in the previous quarter, mainly related to a one
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Vast majority of Athens homeless ended up on streets during crisis
Societya fifth lived with their families. One in ten are former prisoners. Of the non-Greek nationals.... One fifth of the total homeless (21.7 percent) said they had lost their home in the last year... to be restricted, one 51-year-old male interviewee told the researchers. Seven in ten are rough sleepers
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Crisis management policy: the sad lesson of the Greek case
Agoraassets with further foreign investment. One interesting idea tabled early on in the bailout period... potential by about three percent – on average of one percent a year – in the three year period from... percent per annum could be too optimistic. And growth rates of around one percent or less is all too
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Newsletter 79 - 24/06/2016
, “easily one of the most ill-conceived and profoundly damaging political events of Britain’s post-war... of reform with pain. “I want to reconcile reforms with progress,” he said. One might argue... bloody turmoil and division, one can read the surname of a Soviet soldier who scratched it into the wall
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From Berlin to Brexit
Agorathe decades. It was, as Jeremy Cliffe put it in his Bagehot column in The Economist, “easily one of the most... the idea of reform with pain. “I want to reconcile reforms with progress,” he said. One might argue... bloody turmoil and division, one can read the surname of a Soviet soldier who scratched it into the wall
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Tsipras travels to China hoping to fulfil ambition of closer Sino-Greek ties
PoliticsForeign Policyin Piraeus is part of its so-called “One Belt, One Road” policy. Beijing sees Greece as a vital partner... interested in Greece playing a greater role in “One Belt, One Road” plan. Athens believes Greece could
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Adult skills in Greece lacking, indicates OECD survey
Societyby the Paris-based organisation has found. Only about one in 20 adults in Greece attain the highest levels of proficiency (level 4 or 5) in literacy, compared to around one in 10 adults (10.6 percent) on average..., Greece is one of the few countries where women outperform men in literacy. In numeracy, some 5.6
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