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        <title><![CDATA[Maria Petrakis - Financial Journalist]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Greece Revives Privatizations With One Difference: More Time]]></title>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-08-31/the-only-new-thing-about-greek-privatization-they-get-more-time</link>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2015 04:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Greek Islands No Holiday for Tax Inspectors Chasing Evaders]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[As Greeks make their annual exodus to islands and villages for summer vacation, there’s one group hitting those spots for work: tax inspectors.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2015 00:01:01 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[In Cash-Starved Greece, Plastic Casts Light Into Shadow Economy]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2015 23:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Tsipras’s Paradox Is Six Months of Pain and Enduring Popularity]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2015 21:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[IMF’s New Head of Greece Staff Team Is Veteran of Cyprus Bailout]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2015 15:48:38 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[What Are Greece's Capital Controls?]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Greece has imposed capital controls. Here's what the government has to say about the situation.]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Maria Petrakis]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2015 08:40:38 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Greeks Expecting More Taxes and Pain Hope at Least It’s in Euros]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2015 10:42:21 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Weekend of Fear in Greece as Banks, People Live Day To Day]]></title>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-20/weekend-of-fear-in-greece-as-monday-brings-salvation-or-ruin</link>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2015 09:30:58 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Tourists in Greece Seek Out Hotel Safes to Stash Extra Cash]]></title>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-18/tourists-seek-greek-hotel-safes-to-stash-cash-as-bookings-soften</link>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2015 22:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Greek Capital Controls Baked In as Firms Store Cash Abroad]]></title>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-16/greek-capital-controls-baked-in-as-companies-store-cash-abroad</link>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2015 22:01:01 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Greeks Who Want to Keep Euro Are Tired of Tsipras's Brinksmanship]]></title>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-14/tsipras-brinkmanship-in-talks-tires-greeks-who-want-to-keep-euro</link>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2015 23:01:01 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Keeping Greece in the Euro May Have Nothing to Do With Finances]]></title>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-11/keeping-greece-in-the-euro-may-have-nothing-to-do-with-finances</link>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2015 23:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Greek Pension Mess Shows There’s No Easy Way Out of Impasse]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2015 23:01:01 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Mother of two Maria Kounani, who opted for early retirement. Photographer: Kostas Tsironis/Bloomberg
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            <title><![CDATA[Tsipras Turns to Party Hand Tsakalotos to End Talks Impasse]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2015 14:26:13 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Here’s a Greek Business That’s Booming: Making Test-Tube Babies]]></title>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-05-26/here-s-a-greek-business-that-s-booming-making-test-tube-babies</link>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2015 04:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ground Zero in Athens Provides Refuge for Londoner Fleeing Costs]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2015 22:01:01 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[ギリシャ財務相、アテネのレストランで襲われる－妻と食事中]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2015 10:23:02 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Varoufakis, Spouse Attacked by Anarchists in Athens Restaurant]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2015 08:18:37 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Greeks Shopping for Easter Meat Reflects Nation Uneasy Over Cash]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2015 23:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Kissing Couples Urge End to Germany’s War of Words With Greece]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2015 16:38:39 GMT</pubDate>
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