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  1. Pressure from government MPs pushes PM towards resolution with farmers

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    “beaten up out there”, while others claimed they were fearful of being “lynched” if they attempted... and police at roadblocks, Justice Minister Giorgos Floridis called the farmer’s leaders “gangsters

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  2. Tax chief's departure brings coalition revenue plans under scrutiny
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    the troika, which wanted the task of collecting taxes to be ringfenced from political interference... euros. #Greece new unpaid taxes at €763 mln in Apr (from €1.21 bln in Mar) & at €4.33 bln year

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  3. PASOK and SYRIZA turn up heat on govt as surveillance case realigns political forces
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    briefing “in his ear” but wanted the entire record of his surveillance to be passed to the parliamentary... and the two journalists implicated so far represent the tip of the iceberg, suggesting more

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  4. Two hurdles left for coalition this year before bigger challenges in 2014
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    Greece’s coalition has two more hurdles to clear before it stumbles over the finishing line at the end of the year, exhausted and battered but not quite yet beaten. The first challenge is to pass... are presumably softer than those that would have been demanded by the troika, which wanted

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  5. For better or worse: Greece's bailout exit deja vu
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    Agora

    tax rates and investment spending if targets were beaten. All crisis governments had first-hand... a fiscal gap of 1.1 percent of GDP, or 2 billion euros. This meant that if Samaras wanted to close

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  6. Newsletter 48 - 23/10/2015

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    into the Lagarde list iceberg. If history is a guide, Tsipras’s path seems to have been set: after talking... not mean that it can yet be deemed a winning strategy. Why was it a risk to claim he could be the new

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  7. Tsipras and SYRIZA: More old than new
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    Agora

    administration’s drive also stalled before it drifted into the Lagarde list iceberg. If history is a guide...Alexis Tsipras staked his political future on the “new vs old” concept in the September 20 elections. His victory at the ballot box, though, does not mean that it can yet be deemed a winning strategy

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  8. Agreement on third bailout with revised fiscal and macro targets, host of prior actions

    EconomyProgramme

    in the excise on diesel oil for farmers, tightening the definition of what constitutes a farmer and better... of the privatization plan undertaken by the Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund (HRADF). Announcement of binding

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  9. OPEKEPE inquiry sparks new political clash as despondent public looks on
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    – a Cretan farmer and former New Democracy member nicknamed “Frappé” - will not testify. His refusal..., the headline finding is political mood: 60 pct of respondents prefer political change, compared with 39 pct

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  10. Why Greece’s ‘also ran’ parties are crucial
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    Agora

    contestant run by a farmer in northern Greece called “Independent Innovative Left, Renewed Right... by these small parties totals 5 percent, for example, the winning party would need 38.4 percent to take

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