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  1. Ladies and gentlemen, please fasten your seat belts
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    Agora

    and a hammer blow for Greece’s beleaguered society. For one, Samaras and his ministers have been busy..., one has to wonder what else needs to happen before there is a show of political sensitivity from.... The latter is a particular irony given that one could argue that the economic policy pursued in Greece

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  2. How big is Greek fiscal gap? Will cuts be needed? Here's our Q&A

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    from the equation, Merkel has taken the matter back to square one and the troika's return to Athens... in general remains sensitive and is one of the areas of disagreement between Athens and the troika. One of the reasons that the troika believes there is a large fiscal gap is because it doubts Greece

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  3. When will Greek banks operate as credit institutions again?
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    Agora

    above water. On the one hand the Greek government has been successful through a multi-year austerity... payments; any one or a combination of these reasons risks landing them on an index of defaulting... for core tier one capital ratios set by the European Banking Authority (EBA). In return for this capital

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  4. Samaras proposes free wi-fi as crisis antidote for young Greeks
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    term, which expires in 2016. Apart from his proposal regarding wi-fi, Samaras only provided one more... by foreign investors. Indeed, the growth of Greek tech firms is one of the few economic bright spots... for improvement but going from this to full wi-fi access in one year seems a stretch and certainly does

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  5. Credit origination and transmission: Are Greek banks part of the problem or the solution?
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    Agora

    would have to resolve one critical issue, namely the financing platform for such an internal bad bank... funds are as low as one percent and seldom surpass the critical threshold of 10 percent. For Greek... to one of the few liquid assets still available to them: namely running down their bank accounts

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  6. The euro debate Greece is not having
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    Agora

    into the troika program there is very little evidence that one of these key objectives has actually been... the prices’ resistance to falling at the same pace as wages, and it is often one of the troika's... weaknesses have been so blatantly exposed over the last three years should not earn one a place

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  7. Has internal devaluation really helped Greek exports?

    Economy

    The performance of Greece’s exports has been one of the main disappointments of the troika-led program. One of the pillars of Greece’s adjustment was meant to be internal devaluation, which through... of doing business, have been too one-sided and may in some cases been counter-productive.

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  8. Support finely balanced as coalition enters make or break December

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    The New Democracy-PASOK coalition enters this December one of its most crucial months since... a narrow lead over SYRIZA and one poll put the leftists ahead. A Kapa Research poll in Sunday’s To Vima... percent. Just over 20 percent of voters were undecided. One of the survey’s most interesting findings

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  9. Why tax evasion threatens to become endemic due to how Cyprus was bailed out
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    Agora

    One of the most difficult economic concepts for politicians to understand is the idea of dynamic... (one is taxed after making 19,500 euros) combined with a relatively professional tax service, has... the one that is often missed by politicians. Lowering the tax burden of a population who finds its income

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  10. Greece takes on EU presidency and some significant challenges with it
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    will not attempt to focus on issues that could benefit Greece. One area of particular interest... to the access to natural gas and oil that this could give. One of the issues that Greece has inherited.... This was one of the main issues that Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras focussed on as he set out Greece

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