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The case for a general government balance sheet
Agoraor household) could not survive for long with these numbers. Net worth for Greece at -120 percent... that governments are finding ways to finance deficits outside the Maastricht definition of debt... not willing to stick to the 60-percent rule. They are also incrementally finding ways around
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Lesvos tragedy, Erdogan threat ratchet up refugee crisis pressure
PoliticsGreek Politicsit is fearful of migrants arriving in larger numbers. Migration Policy Minister Yiannis Mouzalas... talks with Turkey. Although the vote is non-binding and only recommends that talks halt while Ankara..., is to create a new facility on Lesvos, given that Athens wants to avoid moving people in large numbers
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Mitsotakis urges EU to be proactive, PASOK looks for silver lining ahead of congress
PoliticsGreek Politicswith strategic ambiguity, factional tension and stubbornly static polling numbers. For leader Nikos... several hundred delegates, though PASOK headquarters has treated these numbers with thinly veiled... the broader political text. Doukas, however, wants a clear, binding decision. His stance reflects
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Lack of vaccines led to panic in B&H, yet now they are going to waste
AgoraBack when Bosnia and Herzegovina hadn’t yet obtained vaccines, and the numbers of infected... day, and the numbers of infected persons (exceeding four-digit numbers on a daily basis) and deceased... a real little renaissance of B&H national football by winning the sympathy of many. The prescribed
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SYRIZA and New Democracy neck-and-neck as post-election scenarios become clearer
PoliticsGreek Politicsto the task. Nevertheless, the numbers indicated that Meimarakis’s homely style has revived New Democracy... Democracy cannot be ruled out. It will be extremely difficult for the winning party on September 20... of legitimacy but would also be in the interests of the winning party as whoever finishes second would start
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Holding out for a (reformist) hero
Agoraposition as he got closer to power and, after winning the June 2012 elections and heading a new three... for this position is former administrative reform minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, who caused an upset by winning... that by far the biggest reduction in civil servant numbers (down by around 160,000 from 2010 to 2014) took
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Tsipras looks for fresh start as Mitsotakis holds election cards
PoliticsGreek Politics, there is little prospect of SYRIZA winning the next elections, even though the simple PR system they will be held under means the winning party will not receive any bonus seats. Kyriakos Mitsotakis said last week... the numbers add up). Although he spoke of a “progressive” government, he did not specify which parties
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Fires continue to test capabilities and spark political confrontation
PoliticsGreek Politics, this would lead to ND winning 120 seats in Parliament, SYRIZA 86 and PASOK 44. In such a scenario, ND... is that they will lead to a second ballot under a different system, whereby the winning party will be awarded bonus... be within the conservatives’ reach. Its findings have caused some raised eyebrows as the numbers beg
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Mitsotakis eyes majority in second vote as SYRIZA reels from crushing defeat
PoliticsGreek Politicsit will be clear when the next elections will be. After winning such a resounding victory in which... that the party’s supporters do not become complacent and still turn out in high enough numbers to give the centre-right party a big majority, even though the winning party will be awarded a 50-seat bonus
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Greece submits reform proposals but Eurogroup unlikely to be moved
EconomyProgramme, fact-finding and fact-exchange sessions should be Brussels The government also calls for "higher-level... and relates to ‘onlookers’ VAT evasion-fighting scheme with large numbers of causal ‘onlookers’ to assist the fight against VAT evasion. Varoufakis proposes large numbers of non-professional inspectors
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