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Seven in 10 Greeks raiding savings to pay bills, two in 10 have no deposits
SocietySeven in 10 Greeks are raiding their savings in order to make ends meet, while two in 10 say they have no deposits at all, according to a new survey by Public Issue. As the government and the troika... the last year. At the same time, the proportion of Greeks who say they have no deposits at all has
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Greece in danger of repeating familiar mistakes with Golden Dawn
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Agorain December have all caused anger and anxiety, prompting many Greeks to seek easy answers to the country’s complicated problems. But that’s not all. The economic crisis tells only part of the story... as there are unemployed people. Public Order Minister Nikos Dendias last week lamented the “tragic quality” of immigrants
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Beyond economic policy, new Greek coalition starts setting out agenda
PoliticsGreek Politicson Sunday, all the attention has fallen on whether Greece will be able to reach an agreement with its... but did not indicate what, if any, action would be taken. Public order The government aims... The government has pledged to provide free or subsidised healthcare for all Greeks, including those
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Newsletter 25 - 08/05/2015
will need to tap additional funding sources in order to meet external obligations of 2.5 billion... of a single VAT rate of 18 percent for almost all goods and services – it is difficult to imagine... pensions and having to implement a zero deficit rule that will lead to all of these auxiliary
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An impossible choice
Agora. If the reader feels confused about all these developments, you are in good company. The twists and turns.... They are at the receiving end of all these erratic developments. They have to digest the call for a referendum on Sunday 5... of their surname, in order to access their account. For a government that proclaimed the word “dignity
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Newsletter 82 - 15/07/2016
to the IMF, all institutions highlight the relatively higher minimum salary in Greece, proposing... seats at all for the winning party in a general election, applies immediately. If the bill gets a simple... the reform in order to give SYRIZA more power if it loses the next election. He argued that Greece has moved
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Tsipras sets out social policy goals in last stage of effort to shift political debate
PoliticsGreek Politicscontribution at all, and the retirees being excused from having to make a 6 percent contribution to healthcare costs (this was increased for all pensioners from 4 percent as part of the measures passed... with the institutions, onto the agenda. New Democracy seems to feel that the law and order issue in particular could
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Newsletter 85 - 05/08/2016
and order. The conservatives argue that because of its ideological constraints, a SYRIZA-led... Democracy). It is, as we will examine, a myth that has been peddled by all three at one time... revenues remained relatively flat. That the Greek justice system has failed to see all this after so
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The great turn-off: Greece's TV permits auction
Agoraas a supposed effort to establish some order in the opaque world of Greek broadcasting had descended... was greeted with the launching of legal action by all and sundry against the government and each..., all this was absent from the process, making the tender for TV licences a series of missed
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Tsipras and Mitsotakis speak to their MPs but address wider audience
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe compromises he is not willing to make in order to secure a deal. “We will not even bother... of the crisis, but the one that takes the country out of the crisis once and for all.” Mitsotakis... the challenge of a major political change,” he said. “The time has come to leave aside all
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