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Five things to take away from the first round of Greek local elections
PoliticsGreek Politicsbefore. The graph below produced by Public Issue suggests SYRIZA saw a 13.2 percentage point increase... regions. Although New Democracy saw support for its candidates fall by just over six percentage
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Historic victory for SYRIZA in EU vote unlikely to dislodge Greek coalition
PoliticsGreek Politicsopposition party could point to the fact that New Democracy and PASOK (Elia) saw their share of the vote drop... saw its support decline by a combined total of almost 11 percentage points. Nevertheless, the fact
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Greece's biggest problem? Society's lack of openness
Agorabeen cited as being central to its malaise. Conservatives saw in the country a textbook case... of the private sector. Some analyses went a little deeper and saw clientelism as the core pathology, an acid
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Newsletter 7 - 12/12/2014
2012. September also saw the highest reading for the month-on-month rise in the number of employed... demanded by the troika. Cool heads did not prevail in New Democracy either. Samaras saw his party
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Divided we fall?
AgoraAntonis Samaras became the arch-proponent of the anti-memorandum line, feeding the populism that saw... fed antagonism. Samaras's New Democracy cultivated the "theory of the two extremes," which saw
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Economic situation biggest worry for Greeks, latest Eurobarometer shows
Societyfound that only 16 percent of respondents in Portugal and 27 percent of respondents in Greece saw... percent) to Slovakia (57 percent), saw it as a bigger problem in their country. Greece’s economic
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Greek teachers low paid, but work shorter hours in smaller classes
Societyqualifications earned 60 percent of the OECD average of $42,825. Greek teachers also saw their salaries..., Greek teachers also saw their net salaries shrink as a tax for solidarity was created. This tax
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Newsletter 58 - 15/01/2016
, Mitsotakis saw off the competition from his rival Evangelos Meimarakis (52.4 vs 47.6 percent) to win Sunday’s.... Elected just over a year ago, the leftist party saw itself in the vanguard of the backlash against
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Newsletter 61 - 05/02/2016
strike saw one of the strongest turnouts in recent years, uniting a wide range of professionals... measures now that will last in order to make it sustainable. The general strike on Thursday saw one
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Tsipras sails through multi-bill vote, looks to disbursement and debt relief
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe government breezed through the multi-bill vote on Sunday and has put the ball in the lenders’ court regarding the disbursement of bailout funds and debt relief. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras saw.... Other late changes saw the tax on beer increase from June 1, 2016 (instead of of Jan 1, 2018
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