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Posts on April 2014

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Photo by Can Esenbel [http://www.mundanepleasure.com/] Who benefits from Greece’s return to the markets?

Now that the euphoria is beginning to die down let’s take a second, more sober look at what Greece achieved last week when the investment community hailed the country’s return to the markets. Politicians from Prime Minister Antonis Samaras’s government were quick to join the chorus of cheerleaders, with impressive support from members of the media and market analysts.

Contributor: Jens Bastian

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Categories: Economy (326), Greece (493)

Photo by Myrto Papadopoulos [www.myrtopapadopoulos.com] Has SYRIZA's moment gone?

In June 2012, SYRIZA came within 171,000 votes of winning Greece’s national elections as part of an improbable but meteoric rise from raggle-taggle band of dreamy leftists to Europe’s premier anti-austerity crusaders. At the time it seemed that, even in electoral defeat, SYRIZA and its young leader Alexis Tsipras were laying a cornerstone for something much bigger. But events since then, especially over the last couple of weeks, suggest that we may have already seen SYRIZA’s finest moment.

Contributor: Nick Malkoutzis

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Categories: Politics (384), Greece (493)

Photo by Harry van Versendaal Does return to markets signal end of Greek crisis? The perils of ignoring macro-economic fundamentals

Politics today is the art of shaping a narrative, with the overriding preference being for one that is in harmony with markets and investors. This narrative is currently being formulated in real time in Greece. It is centred on the much anticipated return of the Greek sovereign to international bond markets.

Contributor: Jens Bastian

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Categories: Europe (281), Politics (384), Economy (326), Greece (493)

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