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Greece as an energy hub: Reality or wishful thinking?
EconomyFeatures“Energy is the spearhead of Greece’s economic growth policy. The government’s aim is to make Greece..., the minister reiterated Greece’s importance as an energy hub. But where does Greece stand on turning this concept into a reality? A difficult road On a domestic level, Greece’s energy sector is in line
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Newsletter 135 - 13/10/2017
to the organisation’s World Economic Outlook released this week. Annual GDP growth of 3.6 percent... with the macro data included in the staff report as part of Greece’s request for a precautionary Stand... is included in Greece’s draft budget. The IMF’s tax revenue projections also differ by about a third
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Newsletter 163 -25/05/2018
coordination between creditors. The new housing benefits agreed as part of last week’s negotiations... such as tourism, as well as transforming Greece’s growth and consumption paradigm and attracting... of Greece’s post-MoU growth strategy, which was presented to the cabinet by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras
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Greek leaders' contrasting visions all a blur
AgoraThe battle lines for Greece’s next general election have been drawn. Amid the bitterness spewing forth from SYRIZA, New Democracy and their supporters, the party’s two leaders have set out... exchanges revolving around soundbites, intentional misrepresentation of each other’s views, twisting
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Newsletter 192 -01/02/2019
of bailout exit Following the tension of last week’s vote on the Macedonia name deal, the government sought to pick up momentum this week by announcing an increase to the minimum wage and issuing Greece’s... that the institutions had reportedly suggested. The prime minister’s decision to ignore this advice
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Newsletter 207 -24/05/2019
into Sunday’s European Parliament elections a strong favourite to emerge with a convincing win over SYRIZA. In eight surveys carried out by Greece’s leading pollsters (including two by Metron Analysis... by the Communist Party (KKE), making up the five parties that will elect Greece’s 21 MEPs. The final days
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SYRIZA seeks to recover from election shock, ND prepares for power
PoliticsGreek PoliticsSYRIZA has begun the process of trying to heal the wounds from Sunday’s devastating election result... to be held on July 7. Alexis Tsipras spoke to SYRIZA’s central and electoral committees on Monday to launch... percent of the vote, almost 9.5 points less than New Democracy, was well below the government’s
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The positives and negatives that will decide Greece's elections
Agorais with the opposition party. This feeling was compounded by ND’s dominance in the municipal and regional...-nationalist Greek Solution, which gained almost 5 percent in the EU vote, and Yanis Varoufakis’s... support that goes to parties not able to elected MPs. If things fall ND’s way and the pollsters
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Newsletter 223 -11/10/2019
’s draft budget as the two sides try to ensure that there is no danger of a fiscal gap appearing... or electronically in order to qualify for the tax-free threshold. It remains to be seen if Greece’s lenders see... of the budget on social media. He accused New Democracy’s “friends” in the media of avoiding
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Promises and challenges of Greece's "green new deal"
EconomyFeatures. The focus on climate change policy represents quite a marked departure for Greece’s domestic political... of Greece’s “green new deal” begin to emerge, we assess the promise and the challenges of the new...’s state-owned electricity provider, published a radical restructuring plan, which paves the way
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