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

    Agora

    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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  2. I know what you did the summer before last
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    Agora

    it as a watershed moment rather than a recurring nightmare. *You can follow Nick on Twitter: @NickMalkoutzis Nick... of Greece. The economist’s take is undoubtedly engaging but should be treated with caution. We... paradox in lambasting Tsipras for adopting the tax hikes and pension cuts attached to the latest

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  3. Refugee influx pushes Tsipras towards crisis nexus

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    arrived in 2014 but already this year there have been more than 400,000 arrivals. On Friday, IOM... of September to 7,000 a day in October. Understandably, this has put a huge strain on the Greek state’s.... Housing, feeding and keeping people warm carries a much higher cost than scanning their fingerprints

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  4. 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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  5. Greek teens less likely to smoke, get drunk than European peers but gamble more
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    Society

    drink, and are the most likely to have gambled for money than their peers in Europe. These are some... percent of them more than once, compared to an average of 23 and five percent, respectively. As was the case in Denmark and the Czech Republic, more than 90 percent of teenagers in Greece reported easy

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  6. Newsletter 34 - 10/07/2015

    Newsletters

    Sliding from No to Yes Govt proposals resemble those put forward by Commission The Greek Parliament... an explanatory memorandum in Greek (compared to the English text sent to Brussels) that put the amount... in the same period last year. This translates into a net drop in retail sales by 305 million over

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  7. Newsletter 17 - 27/02/2015

    Newsletters

    of a rebellion from his MPs. It is unlikely that more than a handful would oppose the government... SYRIZA’s pledge to show greater respect for Parliament and the democratic process than previous... business investment. Additional potential factors of uncertainty involve lower than expected growth

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  8. Newsletter 18 - 06/03/2015

    Newsletters

    , more than 700 million (corresponding to at least half of the issue) was covered from the accounts of general government entities held More than 700 million of the T-Bill issue was covered from... allowing the government to utilise cash reserves of more than 300 million from two general government

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  9. North Macedonia's road to Brussels: Breaking the vicious cycle
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    Agora

    rightly put the rule of law front and center. However, such an approach is undermined by issues... partisanship. The borders were much more porous for illiberal democracy and populism than for the import... much livelier than the debate, based on analysis, on how the existing agreements are being

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  10. IMF examines where programme went wrong, what lessons were learnt
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    EconomyProgramme

    put a severe strain on the social fabric of the country. Frequent episodes of political instability... projections, largely due to lower growth and deflators, while unemployment was much higher than originally... and the OSI, public debt recorded a relatively modest immediate decrease to 305 billion euros (160 percent

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