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  1. One year of SYRIZA

    Agora

    for longer than the US was decades ago, the message from those drafting the adjustment programme..., if not more so, than previous agreements. SYRIZA was right to challenge the logic of the bailout... then will SYRIZA have a chance of being remembered for anything other than being the instigator of Greece’s

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  2. Greek pensions: The unsolvable equation
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    Agora

    security contributions, one of the key funding pillars of the system, which were more than 22... than a quarter and the majority of sector wage agreements that tracked the minimum wage then followed... dropping from more than 13 billion euros in 2009 to an estimated 10 billion in 2016. Contributions

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  3. Q4 GDP contracts 0.6 pct QoQ, recession of 0.7 pct in 2015
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    EconomyMacroeconomy

    , which was downward revised. The YoY GDP contraction in Q4 was deeper than market polls estimating... to the persisting deflation of 1.7 percent in 2015. The real GDP contraction in 2015 is higher than... for a 2.3 percent recession, is largely attributed to better than expected private consumption and tourism

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  4. Mapping the views of the Greeks
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    Society

    than those who define themselves as “leftists”. Amounting to 17 to 20 percent of the population... has offered more to the EU than it has received from it, which the authors believe indirectly implies... wary of terms like “capitalism” and “shares”, only a very small minority (less than 6 percent

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  5. Coalition hopes to ride out pension and tax dispute with farmers

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    that at the moment around 85 percent of farmers declare incomes of less than 5,000 euros, meaning... the coalition may have a little more leeway timewise than the farmers. The other factor on the government’s... low incomes, with only 4 percent saying they earned more than 10,000 euros in 2014, has been widely

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  6. The refugee crisis and the beast within
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    Agora

    psychological connection. It is less than 100 years ago that Greeks from Asia Minor packed onto boats... that Greek society has been more welcoming to the refugees than others in Europe is that Greece has so far been a transit country. It may have received close to 900,000 arrivals last year, and more than

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  7. Athens and creditors edge closer on tax and pensions but gap remains on NPLs

    EconomyProgramme

    working years and a higher rate for those with more than 25 years, with the end-rate seen at 2.2... entail a cut in supplementary pensions above 150-170 euros by more than 20 percent. The Labour... understand that the tax-free threshold would be maintained above 9,000 euros, which is lower than

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  8. Newsletter 68 - 01/04/2016

    Newsletters

    it will provide some respite for the government, which is struggling to cope with the more than 50,000... also scuffles on island hot spots and at Idomeni, where there are still more than 10,000 people... and urbane than his colleagues, should call for Tsipras to resign and snap elections to be held

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  9. Four in 10 Greek firms thinking about moving abroad, survey shows

    Economy

    and/or operations outside Greece. According to Endeavor's own projections, this would mean that more than 9,000... higher than the figure of 23 percent in the previous survey published last July in the aftermath... in the technology and health care sectors are the most willing to relocate, while the vast majority (more than 80

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  10. Overdue contributions rise by 429 mln to 15.78 bln in Q1

    Economy

    billion euros (more than 73 percent) relate to main debt and the remaining 4.23 billion to surcharges... to almost 280,000 in Q1, with 38.3 percent owing less than 15,000 euros each for an aggregate amount... of the spectrum, 1,049 debtors (just 0.4 percent of total) owe more than 1 million each for an aggregate

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