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Greek QE eligibility? We're not there yet
Following the European Central Bank’s governing council meeting on Thursday, Mario Draghi provided more detail about issues relating to the eligibility of Greek government bonds (GGBs) for the Quantitative Easing (QE) programme and reinstating the waiver on Greek government securities for ECB funding.
Contributor: Manos Giakoumis
Categories: Europe (281), Economy (328), Greece (495)
TINA politics and the Greek elections
Having struck a highly controversial agreement with Greece’s European creditors, former prime minister Alexis Tsipras is now confronted in real time with a fundamentally changing political landscape.
Contributor: Jens Bastian
Categories: Europe (281), Politics (385), Greece (495)
Election Watch: End of an era as Papandreous bow out of elections
With his announcement that his Kinima (Movement) party will not contest the forthcoming elections “for financial reasons”, George Papandreou seems to be drawing a close on his family’s almost century-long involvement in Greek politics.
Contributor: Damian Mac Con Uladh
Categories: Politics (385), Greece (495)
Tsipras and the binary opposition
The morning after July’s referendum win was a bittersweet moment for Alexis Tsipras. It dawned on him that he had an overwhelming mandate not to accept new, onerous bailout terms but, at the same time, that he could not risk Greece’s position in the euro. Fulfilling both desires would require a gold medal-winning balancing act on the political high beam.
Contributor: Nick Malkoutzis
Categories: Politics (385), Greece (495)
Why Tsipras might gamble on snap elections
Many people asking whether Greece can afford to hold snap elections in the autumn. Perhaps, though, we should also be asking whether it can afford not to.
Categories: Politics (385), Greece (495)