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EU vote highlights Greek center-left's urgent need for renewal
PoliticsGreek Politicsin the European Parliament elections on Sunday has to some extent disguised the deep problems within... left halved at these European elections. If one goes further back, to the EU vote of 2009... the same grouping as PASOK in the European Parliament, the Socialists and Democrats. Although Theodorakis
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IMF report sees a number of risks lying ahead for Greece
EconomyProgramme. This is the first IMF report since the end of July 2013 and comes 40 days after the European Commission (EC... contingent relief measures from Greece’s European partners. The projected rapid decline assumes... path, it is essential that Greece’s European partners reaffirm their commitments to the agreed debt
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To Potami takes next step in mission to become key political player in Greece
PoliticsGreek Politicsin the European Parliament elections on May 25, the party’s result of 6.6 percent was still impressive given its... European Parliament elections. Running under the name Gefyres (Bridges), they attracted a disappointing... with Theodorakis, even though To Potami has chosen to join the group of social democrats in the European Parliament
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The IMF crisis and how to solve it
Agora%, and the ECB had to intervene massively to keep swathes of the European banking system afloat... a western European country is the biggest shareholder is nearly 40% of total Board votes, forming... experiment is revealing. None of the statements written by any European Director (other than Cyprus’s
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The challenge in Greece: Funding an emerging economic recovery
Agorathe National Strategic Reference Framework (ESPA) programmes of the European Commission... on ESPA resources from Brussels and cheap credit programmes from the European Investment Bank (EIB... and investment analyst for southeast Europe. From 2011 to 2013 he was a member of the European
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Samaras seeks late summer boost from talks with troika in Paris
PoliticsGreek Politicsand European elections in May showed that confidence in the government is slipping and the coalition feels..., such as the budget execution and next year’s fiscal gap. The European Commission, European Central Bank
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Commission points to poor access to finance, slow reform as hampering Greek competitiveness
EconomyIn its 2014 European Competitiveness Report published on Thursday, the European Commission (EC) ranks Greece in the third group along with 10 other countries in terms of industrial competitiveness... in 2013. The European Union average is almost double at 65 percent. In addition, a separate survey showed
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Tsipras starts to flesh out SYRIZA's economic policy but questions remain
PoliticsGreek Politicsof European Union funds to boost employment, a reduction in taxes and an increase of wages and pensions... on the remainder of the amount owed by Greece be indexed to the country’s growth rate. On a European... the European Central Bank. Tsipras said he would also demand that public investment programmes
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Greek debt: A case of learned helplessness?
Agoraby the deposit flight instigated by the repeated statements of European officials in 2011 and 2012 that either..., to until after Eurostat confirmed the surplus in April this year, then after the European Parliament... that will generate much needed growth and jobs. When the European Commission called via a report in July
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Wealth in Greece plunged by 170 bln since 2007, report finds
SocietyThe inaugural Julius Baer (JB) Wealth Report published this week showed that European wealth... population than Greece. According to JB estimates, the wealthiest 10 percent of European households have a net wealth of at least 850,200 euros and make up almost 50 percent of total European wealth, while
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