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Posts on December 2016
Another spin of the wheel for Greece
There couldn’t have been a more fitting end to the year in Greece than the Ferris Wheel fiasco in Athens’s Syntagma Square. It was the first year the city centre’s Christmas and New Year’s celebrations were to include this attraction. It went up amid much fanfare, only to come down a few days later as the structure did not have the necessary security certificates.
Contributor: Nick Malkoutzis
Categories: Politics (375), Economy (319), Greece (482)
![Photo by Myrto Papadopoulos [www.myrtopapadopoulos.com]](resources/toolip/img-thumb/2014/01/05/cyprus_myrto_1000_0501-large.jpg "Photo by Myrto Papadopoulos [www.myrtopapadopoulos.com]")
Why can't Greece be more like Cyprus?
During his visit to Nicosia last month, European Stability Mechanism managing director Klaus Regling was particularly praiseworthy of Cyprus’s efforts to exit the crisis.
Contributor: Nick Malkoutzis
Categories: Economy (319), Greece (482)
The IMF and Greece's bitter pill
Greece’s latest European Stability Mechanism programme generates a degree of austerity that prevents the “nascent recovery from taking hold.”
Contributor: Yiannis Mouzakis
Categories: Europe (280), Economy (319), Greece (482)
Shaping the post-programme narrative in Greece
The outcome of the constitutional referendum in Italy and the resignation of Prime Minister Matteo Renzi overshadowed last week’s Eurogroup meeting on Greece.
Contributor: Jens Bastian
Categories: Europe (280), Economy (319), Greece (482)
Eurogroup leaves Greece snared between its creditors
Just as years of fiscal irresponsibility pushed Greece into its permanent state of crisis, seven years and numerous Eurogroups later it was still the fiscal side of things that made the biggest impression on developments at Monday’s Eurogroup.
Contributor: Yiannis Mouzakis
Categories: Europe (280), Economy (319), Greece (482)