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Ring of Fire
Agora“I want my life back, now!” was one of the chants heard at a teachers’ rally on Friday, when... three years that our daily comforts, as small as they may have been, are slipping away one by one... Egnatia Bank in central Athens remains one of the most shocking moments of this crisis. Coming on May 5
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Our most popular stories in 2014
Agorareally helped Greek exports? The performance of Greece’s exports has been one of the main disappointments of the troika-led program. One of the pillars of Greece’s adjustment was meant to be internal... and not so much on the ease of doing business, have been too one-sided and may in some cases been
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Newsletter 29 - 05/06/2015
. Keeping the current pension regime intact is one of the key red lines for the SYRIZA-led government... to give their opinions in one form or another. Several ministers and SYRIZA MPs have suggested snap... to elections. One is that it would give him an opportunity to remove the more radical MPs from SYRIZA’s
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Newsletter 47 - 16/10/2015
the pattern for Greek politics over the next few months. Independent Greeks (ANEL) MPs. The only one... was ANEL’s Nikos Nikolopoulos, who heads the one-man Christian Democratic party. A hard right... up and down the land that he is the only one of the candidates who truly represents the common man
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The great turn-off: Greece's TV permits auction
AgoraAt the start of the process to auction four TV licenses in Athens last week, one of the people in the room was taken to the hospital. He may have been the lucky one. By that point what began... and football club chairmen, one of whom is under investigation for match-fixing. This motley collection
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Deal or no deal? Greece wrestles with the Macedonia issue
Agorato tiptoe between these pitfalls. If one sets aside the burdensome (although clearly important) history... of North Macedonia,” centres on whether the deal is good or bad, and whether a better one could... by one side or the other. Eventually, under the leadership of nationalist VMRO and its leader Nikola
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Losing game: Another doomed effort to revive Greek football?
Agoraprivately owned. Greece also has one of the few top-flight leagues in Europe where there is no foreign... of this income came from gate receipts, which is one of the lowest proportions in the top 20 revenue... “I hope Greece becomes again one of the top countries, like in 2004 when it won the Euro,” UEFA
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Greece takes first round against Covid-19 but fight continues
Agoraare in the National Health System, and one third in the private health sector. The number of hospital beds has.... The appointments were to abide by a 1:1 replacement rule (one hire for each departure) and would therefore... an advantage in responding to the pandemic. The most crucial one was timing. Greece, along with its southeast
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Has external competitiveness been fixed in Greece?
Agorain restructuring the Greek economy. One approach is to compare how inflation in Greece has evolved relative to its trading partners. We can do this for two big groups: the rest of the world as one group... to calculate two REERs, one based on harmonized consumer prices (HICP, upper trend line in figure 1) and one
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Tear gas instead of vaccines
Agorawho take to the streets en masse every Wednesday, constituting one of the most massive demonstrations..., and it is one of the reasons why Ljubljana has turned into a city of protests in the last two years... vaccine. Considering that only this vaccine enables one-time immunization and that, according
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