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  1. China's bumpy road to Greece
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    EconomyFeatures

    , Tzgopoulos said that Greece did not seem to be clear on what it wanted from the investments, unlike China... forum, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras met President Xi Jinping, Premier Li Keqiang and heads

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  2. Uncomfortable parallels: The Greek and British referendums
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    Agora

    into voting “Yes” because it wanted to protect its interests. The same argument has been made in the UK...” with its fond belief that everything was better back then, that Britain (England, really

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  3. 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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  4. From pipe dreams to power cables: the changing map of Greece's energy ambitions
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    initiatives in the region. It is a motif that is likely to be repeated by projects of this scale... as well as binding long-term energy supply agreements. The EU has been promoting formal engagements

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  5. Chinese investments in Greece to be boosted by new agreements

    Economy

    Greece is hoping to sign agreements for investments worth 6-7 billion dollars during the three-day visit of the Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang, which comes a year after the Greek Premier Antonis... to participate in the second phase of the tender process, submitting a binding offer

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  6. Tsipras travels to China hoping to fulfil ambition of closer Sino-Greek ties
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    PoliticsForeign Policy

    Keqiang travelled to Athens for talks with the then premier Antonis Samaras, which focussed on shipping.... Since signing the third bailout, and then winning the subsequent general election in September

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  7. Opposition unable to find basis for cooperation despite public support
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    distribution. Marinakis, who also owns Nottingham Forest football club in England, bought in November... the 11 lawmakers quit SYRIZA, then led by Stefanos Kasselakis. However, finding common ground... system awards a bonus of up to 50 bonus seats to the winning party, it is unlikely that the second party

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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. More changes needed to unlock private sector's potential, report says
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    EconomyFeatures

    carried out by the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) argues. The report, published... forward The authors of the DIW report conclude that a number of interventions are needed from the Greek

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