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Final act in ERT closure carries significant risk for coalition
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat for many Greeks the coalition’s handling of ERT’s closure will be a defining moment in the way... refusing to accept any final numbers until it has details about how many of ERT’s almost 2,700 employees... position with the troika and have a clear idea of how many more civil servants it will have to find
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Last man standing
Agoraare absolutely united on the matter. There may be as many as a third of SYRIZA members who are highly... there are many things to rally against in Greece, the tired format of street protest that SYRIZA, among... that there can be no promise of an expansionary fiscal policy from any Greek government for many years
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OECD sees 3.3 bln euros of savings Greece can make by cutting red tape
EconomyMacroeconomyburdens each. Many of the 87 recommendations involve elimination of obligations to submit several paper copies of a document or dossier to different public authorities. In many cases they suggest... administration instead of forcing businesses to deal with many public institutions separately. Obligations
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Greek politics in thrall to new faces and old ideas
Agora. When Tsipras stood in the 2006 election, many commentators dismissed it as a gimmick and slated SYRIZA.... Sakellaridis’s candidacy was also dismissed by many observers. As a little-known economist who spent his... on candidates whose strengths lie in their professional achievements rather than how many rungs up
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With prior actions pending, PASOK showing signs of adjustment fatigue
PoliticsGreek PoliticsLoverdos (PASOK) over how many university administrative staff will be rehired and how many... by Deputy Prime Minister Evangelos Venizelos, wants to rehire as many as 880 of the 1,134 university
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Greek union data suggest workers get paid late or in kind
SocietyMany Greek workers are not receiving their salaries on time or are being paid in kind rather than... of report but based on information gathered by the union, many workers are paid not on a monthly basis...). In addition, many Christmas and Easter bonuses (a total of 1.5 monthly salaries) are paid in kind
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Snap elections in Greece: The scenarios ahead
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe triggering of snap elections in Greece has prompted many to believe that a SYRIZA government... weaken support for PASOK. This raises doubts about how many seats the Socialists could win and whether... the euro played a significant part in preventing SYRIZA from winning the elections but many Greeks have
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Our most popular stories in 2014
Agorais likely to have many nervous days ahead as it keeps an eye out for court verdicts... exports and highlights a number of factors that are holding back their growth. Many of these elements... refunds from the state and delays in payments by customers, in many cases the state itself
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Tsipras sticks to pre-election pledges as eurozone negotiations loom
PoliticsGreek Politicsto his pre-election pledges, many of which run counter to the policies that the country’s lenders would... but at the same time was vague on the timelines for many of the measures that the Eurogroup, which..., starting with Wednesday’s extraordinary Eurogroup. Negotiations Many of the measures set out
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Newsletter 16 - 20/02/2015
with the president Tsirpas selects New Democracy grandee as head of state For many of his supporters... is also a passable choice for many in SYRIZA because he has been critical of the way that the troika... who was at the centre of sowing the seeds of many of these problems has just been elected as Greece’s
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