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Greece and the euro: The flight of Icarus
Agora, as some of the people in the audience today will know very well. Greece saw joining the euro as part... meant structural factors were overlooked. A period of belt-tightening before euro entry saw Greece’s... elections this summer that saw support for New Democracy and PASOK cut in half. The once-sworn enemies
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The enemy within
Agorathat lower income groups in Greece saw their tax burden increase by 337.7 percent from 2008 to 2012... groups saw their earnings from wages sink the most (by 16.4 to 34.6 percent) between 2008 and 2012, while the top income groups saw their income fall by much less (9.3 to 11.7 percent). What
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Newsletter 131 - 8/9/2017
Review could spoil positive mood Macron's visit lifts hopes in Athens, though much work remains on prior actions The arrival of French President Emmanuel Macron in Athens on Thursday allowed the government to step up its efforts to focus Greece’s domest...
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Newsletter 131 -15/09/2017
Post-Macron positivity runs out Tsipras struggles to keep upbeat message going as trouble at home prevails The government had been hoping this week to bask in the glory of French President Emmanuel Macron’s visit and Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’s appe...
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Polls give New Democracy wafer-thin lead over SYRIZA
PoliticsGreek Politicsvs 21.1 percent. Golden Dawn remained the third most popular with 6.9 percent. The same polling... of SYRIZA and had Golden Dawn as Greece’s third biggest party, reaffirming the figures that have... percent, against SYRIZA’s 20.5. Golden Dawn was at 7.8 percent, still surprisingly high but lower
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SYRIZA builds clear but not conclusive lead in polls as PASOK and GD fade
PoliticsGreek Politicspercent for New Democracy. Kapa Research for @tovimagr: SYRIZA 27.4, ND 23.5, G Dawn 6.4, PASOK 5.8... University poll for @kathimerini_gr: SYRIZA 27.5, ND 20, Potami 7.5, G Dawn 6.5, KKE 5.5, PASOK 4, Ind... from this weekend’s polls are To Potami edging out Golden Dawn for third place in two of the surveys
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Industrial turnover declines marginally in Feb, led by mining and local market
EconomyMacroeconomymarkets increased by 1.7 percent. In respect to sentiment indicators, Greece’s Manufacturing PMI saw... Global data. Greek manufacturing saw strong expansion at the end of the first quarter.... Overall, Greece’s economic sentiment (ESI) improved in March to 107.7 points, from 106.9
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Credit contraction decelerates to 0.9 pct in April, net additions climb to 659 mln
EconomyMacroeconomy. The positive flow in April is almost entirely attributed to corporate sector net additions of 763... positive for the third successive month, with net additions climbing to 763 million in April
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Consensus, conviction and the anti-racism bill
Agoraof consensus and saw herself as a “conviction politician,” she may have been smiling down as the heads... blows. A surge for far-right Golden Dawn is of particular concern to government officials. One... to improve in the hope that this will bring voters back to ND from Golden Dawn, Independent Greeks
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Kammenos ups rhetoric but Independent Greeks' future unclear
PoliticsGreek Politicshit a nerve. The term he used is particularly loaded at the moment because Neo-Nazi Golden Dawn has... of Golden Dawn's leadership began last month, several of the party's MPs went to the Supreme Court.... He saw several key members quit last year in a disagreement over his leadership style. One, Christos
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