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  1. Three months on from imposition of capital controls, some restrictions being relaxed

    Economy

    to the amount of 500 euros per customer and bank. • A maximum amount of 5,000 euros per quarter may... or lessor's account. • Citizens travelling abroad may hold a maximum amount in cash of 2,000 euros per... or services such as clothing and internet betting. • Cross-country payments are allowed in case a bank

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  2. Newsletter 107 - 17/02/2017

    Newsletters

    Athens ramps up rhetoric Stiffening of Greek positions aimed at securing maximum possible... in the hope that the government can gain the maximum possible concessions from the creditors. Moscovici... and services (-1.5 percent) and recreation and culture (-1.4 percent). Upward movement in January prices

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  3. New increase in flow of refugees to Greece causes unease

    Society

    times over the maximum capacity, leading to dismal conditions. As popular holiday spots became... the numbers of those trapped on islands from 15,500 to 6,500 - or the maximum capacity of the island camps... services issued an order which reinforced the containment policy, prompting outrage from NGOs working

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  4. What could Trump's victory mean for Greece?
    Photo by Gage Skidmore https://flic.kr/p/EzvJ67

    Agora

    , neo-Nazi Golden Dawn has already hailed Trump’s defeat of Hillary Clinton as a victory

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  5. Kammenos's odd partnership with Tsipras still holding together
    Photo by Panayiotis Tzamaros/Fosphotos

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    is that in contrast to [Hillary] Clinton, Trump was never close to the big market players, like George

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  6. Tech start-ups click into place to fight off Greek recession
    Photo by Harry van Versendaal

    Society

    closed down, while the 2012 accounts of almost 4,500 firms analyzed by the Icap Group found that 52

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  7. China's Footprint in Southeast Europe: Constructing the "Balkan Silk Road"
    Photo by Andrea Bonetti/Fosphotos

    Agora

    This is the final of three articles in which the author analyzed China’s investment, lending and infrastructure initiatives in Southeast Europe for Macropolis. The first contribution focused on China’s ‘Gateway to Europe’ via the Port of Piraeus in Greece. The second part looked at China’s emerging

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  8. Where is Odysseus? Part 1 - Demographics

    Agora

    In 2019, one of us wrote a book[1] about the Greek economy called “The Macroeconomy of Greece. Odysseus’ Plan for the Long Journey Back to Debt Sustainability.” This book was published before the Covid Pandemic emerged. It was based on data through 2018. The book analyzed Greece’s economic trends

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  9. Slow pace of civil service evaluation, Hellenikon deal add to review agenda
    Photo by Panayotis Tzamaros/Fosphotos

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    Several areas of potential tension between the government and Greece’s lenders have emerged ahead of the third review. Athens is still struggling to find a way to conduct a performance evaluation in the public sector after civil servants’ unions instruc...

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  10. Athens struggles with civil service evaluation, reduction of arrears
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    EconomyProgramme

    The Greek government has its hands full at the moment with the effort to complete as many prior actions as possible from the fourth review so there can be a staff-level agreement by the May 24 Eurogroup. Apart from the fact that many of the 88 key deliv...

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