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Newsletter 74 - 20/05/2016
the point that Tsipras had opposed privatisations in opposition but that he is now creating a sell.... In point of fact, the situation in Greece is even more dramatic. The so-called kokkina daneia (literally... loan defaulters. Various estimates point to about 20 percent or even more than 30 percent
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Uncomfortable parallels: The Greek and British referendums
Agora) is a worse place now than it was at some foggy point in the past where we achieved peak Blighty.” Last year... and doing away with the annoying details of reality, what the experts says and what the numbers point... – of the myths that politicians have only been too happy to allow to flourish because at some point it served
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Newsletter 96 - 18/11/2016
figures for the eight months up to August still point to a drop of 7.9 percent in building permits... the limits of austerity demands on Greece. What is rather uncertain at this point is the amount... crisis during the electoral campaign. But Trump did point out in July 2015 in an interview with Fox
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Newsletter 100 - 16/12/2016
that it is not willing to countenance the idea of adopting further measures to close the 2 percentage point fiscal gap... in Berlin on Friday with the impression that the IMF’s demands for another 2 percentage point... in the last three months, the aggregate figure for the first nine months of the year continues to point
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Why can't Greece be more like Cyprus?
![Photo by Myrto Papadopoulos [www.myrtopapadopoulos.com]](resources/toolip/img-thumb/2014/01/05/cyprus_myrto_1000_0501-medium.jpg "Photo by Myrto Papadopoulos [www.myrtopapadopoulos.com]")
Agora, as if to drive this point home and rub salt into the wounds of the Greek entrepreneur. Taxes Let’s stick... for a better balance over the years but we’ve arrived at a point now where more than 80 percent of public... inside and outside of parliament dwindle to the point that their survival is in question. Against
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Newsletter 105 - 03/02/2017
that the Greek economy is still searching for an equilibrium point after eight years of recession, while it has... point (bp) to 0.70 percent in December, a record low since 2001, Bank of Greece (BoG) data showed..., namely construction confidence (-7.8 points) and consumer confidence (-1 point). Over last twelve months
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What Dijsselbloem didn't say
Agorawere met and the countries exited the bailouts. Greece is yet to reach this point but each step..., there is no need to cultivate the feeling that someone is getting a free ride. Wasteful south? The other point... it. As economists Alexandr Hobza and Stefan Zeugner point out in a 2014 European Commission paper they wrote
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Don't celebrate a French reconnection for EU just yet
Agorabut this misses the point that extremists do not necessarily want to be in power when they can... unemployment has fallen to the lowest point in nine years. This is encouraging but it should not make us... in France, will prove a turning point for European politics and the EU as a whole. The evidence suggests
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Newsletter 118 - 12/05/2017
time deposit rate edged down 1 basis point (bp) to 0.66 percent in March, Bank of Greece figures... point to net hirings of 125,770, up by around 1,000 from last year’s figure of 124,465. This year’s... that it is unlikely to be enough to block legislation, but it could be the starting point for further legal
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More changes needed to unlock private sector's potential, report says
EconomyFeaturespoint out that “onerous reporting obligations and bureaucratic hurdles” also discouraged innovators...; at the lowest point of the development in 2014, it was at about 42 percent,” the authors explain... as well as well as a reliable and predictable tax system,” they point out. The report suggests
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