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Two hurdles left for coalition this year before bigger challenges in 2014
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGreece’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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For better or worse: Greece's bailout exit deja vu
Agoratax 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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PM aims to maintain pace of economic reforms as public worries about migration
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe company compared to the foot-dragging under the previous administration, which wanted to avoid all... warn on Thursday that “Greece has reached its limits” and that there is a high level of fatigue
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Athens bracing for fresh tension with Turkey, sends letter to UN
PoliticsForeign Policyand tone when speaking about Turkey’s new threats at the Davos Economic Forum last week. He wanted.... Greece will continue to warn EU and NATO partners and allies on Turkey’s revisionist policies
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PM tries to isolate protesting farmers, dismisses talk of reshuffle
PoliticsGreek Politicsto hold talks with the government, but were overruled by a majority that wanted to continue..., they warn farmers that disruptive tactics will not force concessions. Politically, they reassure
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Mitsotakis seeks to wrestle back initiative by launching new revision of Greek Constitution
PoliticsGreek Politics, centres on a cluster of articles that New Democracy has long wanted to revisit. At the top... fraught: opposition parties warn of a return to politicised purges, and even within ND
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Agreement on third bailout with revised fiscal and macro targets, host of prior actions
EconomyProgrammein 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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Storm fallout sweeps PM to crucial juncture early in second term
PoliticsGreek Politicsto take into account the extra outlay necessary to compensate homeowners, farmer and other businesses... voters’ trust in his administration and finding a way to make meaningful changes that increase
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OPEKEPE inquiry sparks new political clash as despondent public looks on
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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Why Greece’s ‘also ran’ parties are crucial
Agoracontestant 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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