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Newsletter 9 - 30/12/2014
Greece heads to the polls Surveys suggest SYRIZA's lead is narrowing Greece has entered one... their fading political fortunes. DIMAR is now set to be absorbed into SYRIZA, while Independent Greeks..., have played up these fears over the past few days. It is certain that this will be one of the main
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Newsletter 11 - 16/01/2015
debates during this electoral campaign in Greece has tended to converge on one issue: Is the country’s... in any follow-up programme that the Greek authorities are set to negotiate with their European... than initially projected. Hence, one key condition of such a grand debt bargain has been achieved
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The demand for Greek debt relief: Is the cart being put before the horse?
Agoraon one issue: Is the country’s accumulated public debt sustainable or does it need to be restructured... that needs to be worked through in any follow-up programme that the Greek authorities are set to negotiate... level in the past year than initially projected. Hence, one key condition of such a grand debt
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Will the real men of unity please stand up?
AgoraAt first it seemed like a harmless joke. “And now for one member state, all the men need to take... a tie when he visited Rome, remarking that the Greek leader had promised to wear one when Greece’s...” in Spain and Portugal had attempted to “set a trap” for his government by driving a hard bargain
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Newsletter 20 - 20/03/2015
to a reaffirmation of the February 20 Eurogroup requiring Greece and its creditors to agree on a set... money market funds) and one-quarter was sent abroad. Before the June 2012 elections, around 60... in Brussels, where the most recent one took place on Thursday. It is important to point out
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First visit by quadriga to Athens leaves series of issues unresolved
EconomyProgrammecould be made possible next week he simply replied: “I don’t know”. Housing NPLS One of the key.... The government’s counter proposal suggests more relaxed criteria, with the value of the property being set... proposal and the one that was legislated in mid-August imposing a uniform VAT rate of 23 percent on all
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Greece a gateway and scapegoat in EU's refugee crisis
Agoramigrants, not refugees, from travelling to other countries. One of the reasons the EU wants Frontex... one. Greece returned 39 people to Pakistan but authorities in Islamabad rejected 26 of them, claiming... of bureaucratic obstacle is one of the main reasons that only several thousand people are repatriated from
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Newsletter 58 - 15/01/2016
fiscal strategy for 2016–19, which includes additional measures yielding one percent of GDP (0.75.... This represents a departure from one of his recent predecessors, Antonis Samaras, who sought to cultivate... three ways one could read this comment: as the product of barefaced cheek on the minister’s part
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Search for solutions, not scapegoats in EU's refugee crisis
Agoraskippers one of the island’s two patrol boats. In December 2014, Karakontis and his crew received an award... across the Aegean. The Netherlands has proposed a similar scheme, with the EU agreeing to take a set... that one of the ideas mentioned during an EU interior ministers’ meeting last week was for a large refugee
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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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