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  1. Eight years later: Is Croatia finally truly ready for Europe?

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    rights, which, unlike most developed European countries, are much more happily discussed than put... International, in terms of the corruption index, Croatia did worse than Rwanda in 2020. For two years... programming period of cohesion policy, so it is announced that it will get more money than other countries

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  2. Podcast - Long live the revolution: The legacy of Greece's 1821 war of independence

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    Greece is celebrating the 200th anniversary of its war of independence, which began in 1821 and allowed Greeks to free themselves of Ottoman rule and oppression, and form their own nation-state. To mark this occasion, we spoke to Sakis Gekas, the Hellenic Heritage Foundation (HHF) Chair of Modern

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  3. Ring of Fire

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    with tear gas and batons on the other, too many lives have been put at risk. So, ahead of this autumn, when the government is likely to face a new round of protests, perhaps more intense than recent... the flames of the Marfin fire for more than three years but this week’s court decision should

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  4. Newsletter 68 - 01/04/2016

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    encouraging signs during March, when the UNHCR put the number of arrivals at 26,222 by the 30th... it will provide some respite for the government, which is struggling to cope with the more than 50,000... also scuffles on island hot spots and at Idomeni, where there are still more than 10,000 people

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  5. Helped by trading gains, Eurobank posts 305 mln in Q1 profits
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    EconomyBanking

    Eurobank posted an adjusted net income of 305 million euros in the first quarter of 2022 (Q1), compared to a profit of 72 million euros last year. Core pre-provision income (PPI) rose by 10.4 percent year-on-year (YoY) in Q1 to 240.4 million euros, with 62.1 million euros of loan loss provisions

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  6. The men who would be prime ministers
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    than his colleagues, should call for Tsipras to resign and snap elections to be held. It came... not been completed and the refugee crisis is in full flow? Being put in charge of these twin crises would... before him, he has more than the same single string to his bow. *This article first appeared in last

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  7. Sharper drop for retail sales in July points to lingering recession

    EconomyMacroeconomy

    period, with the average monthly inflow at c400 million euros over this 3-month period. Our understanding is that Greek households prefer to put the little spare money they have in their banking accounts rather than to resume consumption.

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  8. Retail's downward slide continued with 8.9 pct sales drop in August

    Economy

    , with the average monthly inflow at c400 million euros over this 3-month period. Our understanding is that Greek households prefer to put the little spare money they have in their bank accounts rather than

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  9. Omnibus bill passes but leaves marks on coalition and SYRIZA
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    to the short time the government granted MPs to debate legislation that stretched to more than 250 pages... reason for Tsipras’s move may have been to put Stournaras under scrutiny. The finance minister suggested... increases to take place at prices lower than those paid by the country’s recapitalisation fund

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  10. Are hirings in the public sector out of control?
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    EconomyFeatures

    is lifted is more than topical, as discussions start to focus on shaping the country’s post-MoU... since the beginning of the crisis, perhaps more than most people realise. The core public sector ended... hiring spree as charged by the opposition? Or, to put it in less adversarial terms, what is driving

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