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Investment: The forgotten casualty of the Greek crisis
One of the greatest casualties of the Greek crisis and a much-overlooked key contributor towards the depression that engulfed the economy has been investment, or lack thereof.
Contributor: Yiannis Mouzakis
Categories: Economy (169), Greece (260)
Multiple crises fence in Greece
In its first period in government, between January and September 2015, SYRIZA did not experience any general strikes. Since the September elections there have been three, making the number of such protests one of the few things in Greece that is heading upwards. The other rising indicator is the number of pressing problems Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras faces.
Contributor: Nick Malkoutzis
Categories: Politics (171), Economy (169), Greece (260)
Greek pensions: The unsolvable equation
Last July the conditionality of Greece’s third programme included savings of 1 percent of GDP from pensions. It did not require any major fortune telling skills to anticipate that this would soon lead the government of Alexis Tsipras into an extremely tense situation.
Contributor: Yiannis Mouzakis
Categories: Politics (171), Economy (169), Greece (260)
Honey, I shrunk the Greeks vol. 2
The IMF formally announced on Friday that it changed the policy of exceptional access criteria, in essence reversing a highly political decision of the Fund back in 2010, a decision that saved the euro and paved the path for half a decade of economic devastation that sealed Greece’s fate.
Contributor: Yiannis Mouzakis
Categories: Economy (169), Greece (260)
Is Regling right to be concerned about Greek liquidity?
In the press conference following Thursday’s Eurogroup. Klaus Regling, the head of the European Stability Mechanism – the eurozone’s bailout mechanism – called for the first review of Greece’s third bailout to begin (and conclude) as quickly as possible.
Contributor: Yiannis Mouzakis
Categories: Europe (119), Economy (169), Greece (260)