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PM opts for unconventional choice to overcome snag at new ministry
PoliticsGreek Politics. The unusual nature of the appointment also makes it a high-risk one as Stylianides, who.... Mitsotakis will be hoping that he can transfer knowledge and skills from that role to the new one he... brief comments, Tournas focussed on strengthening the fire service as one of the key tasks ahead
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Newsletter 314 - 29/10/2021
manner. Furthermore, Gennimata was one of only a handful of female party leaders in Greece. Her passing... than to be pulled in one direction or the other by the prevailing political winds and the promise... voters. If the New Democracy leader could succeed in doing so, it would deny SYRIZA one of the few
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Newsletter 334 - 08/04/2022
of Ukraine forced policy makers to consider an alternative strategy to the one the government would... in Greece and one currently under construction until 2028, postponing the end of coal burning beyond... the Greek economy growing by 3.8 pct, down by one percentage point from the previous estimate and HICP
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Where is Odysseus? Part 4 - Unemployment and Employment
Agora. One could ask why Greece wound up with such a sky-high unemployment rate during the crisis, in the first place. Discussions with labor groups prior to the crisis revealed one very interesting... in this view was that when one is in a currency union, domestic inflation is no longer the relevant
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Fitch leaves rating unchanged at 'BB', sees small recession and primary deficit next year
Economyunchanged, leaving the agency one notch behind S&P that has Greece at ‘BB+’ and two notches from investment grade. It is also one notch ahead of Moody’s that has its own scale and is currently at ‘Ba3’. Fitch last upgraded Greece in January 2020 by one notch, while the latest upgrade for the country came
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S&P leaves Greece a notch away from investment grade as outlook blurs
EconomyGreece had one rating upgrade by S&P in April to just one notch away from investment grade and one... goal of returning to the top rating. A few days earlier, Fitch left the rating at ‘BB’, which is one notch behind S&P and Moody’s last month also kept Greece at ‘Ba3’, which is one notch behind Fitch
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Macroeconomic fundamentals for Greece
Agorawill sort themselves out without the government careening from one edge of the pinball machine... not be directly observable. One needs proxies or a different way of thinking to see them. For instance, in managing the macroeconomy, one may talk about the level and growth rate of potential real GDP
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SYRIZA on defensive as election campaign draws to close
PoliticsGreek Politicsin one of the worst possible ways as one of its leading figures, and a former minister, Giorgos... in 2015 is one that the party has never been able to shake off and the ex-minister’s comments seemed... strategies is one of the reasons that New Democracy is entering the final days of the campaign
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Attention turns to next government as Mitsotakis holds convincing lead over rivals
PoliticsGreek Politics. State Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis, who is one of Mitsotakis’s closest aides, is expected to get one of the top jobs in the next cabinet. Rumours have been swirling around former foreign minister... of parliamentary speaker but neither has been confirmed. Ex-Labour Minister Kostis Hatzidakis is one
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Where are the Conservatives?
Agorathan one based on an ideological projection of being perceived as left, center-left, center-right... of them, without feeling any political pressure to sign up for one preference over another. Above... we have instead is a fusion of political streams that all have one thing in common: populism. All
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