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Nikitas Kitsantas // 25 August 2022
In response to the debt crisis, the Greek government implemented excessively high tax rates in an attempt to save the country from financial collapse. …
14 October 2021
The voting patterns of political parties in the national parliaments of Greece, Italy and Spain, and of their members of the European Parliament, show …
Daniel Iturri Calvo // 30 July 2019
Unemployment peaked at 27.5%, more than 400,000 people emigrated in a single year, and the debt to GDP ratio reached 180%. The 2008 financial …
20 June 2019
Timbro’s methodological distinction in the Authoritarian Populism Index between extreme and authoritarian populist parties is highly relevant in the Greek political environment, as shown …
Nikos Miserlis // 20 March 2017
The challenge for Greece is how to reduce taxes without lowering government revenue in a stagnant economy that is under tight fiscal monitoring by …
Nikos Miserlis // 7 February 2017
Part 3 of our Greek economy series. For Part 1 and Part 2 as well. Some economists like Stiglitz claim that Greece should give …
Nikos Miserlis // 31 January 2017
Part 2 of our Greek economy series. For Part 1, please click here. The Institutional Problem Revealed through Global Indices One could arguably …
Nikos Miserlis // 30 January 2017
(Part 1) It appears to many that Greece is a lost cause and a country that can maybe only survive outside the euro. …
30 November 2016
November 30 marks Credit Day across the European Union. Credit Day is the day when member states’ central administrations exhaust their annual tax revenues …
Diego Zuluaga // 01.03.2016 As the debate on British membership of the European Union gathers steam, the Eurozone is getting a fair amount of …
Diego Zuluaga // 05.11.2015 One of the consequences of the Eurozone crisis has been to popularise the extremely high levels of unemployment now prevalent …
Michael Iakovidis // 04.11.2015 The Greek crisis has cost taxpayers across Europe hundreds of billions of euros, compounded a huge recession which has plunged …
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