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  1. Series of failures provide opposition with platform to put pressure on PM
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    Although it is still largely absorbed by its leadership contest, which is not due to conclude until early September, recent events have prompted SYRIZA to take a more aggressive stance regarding Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s premiership. The left-wing party was...

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  2. State braces for losses as bank divestment plan is put into action
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    EconomyBanking

    The Hellenic Financial Stability Fund (HFSF) formally launched last week the process of divesting its small participation in the share capital of Eurobank. This set in motion HFSF's plan to dispose of its holdings in the four systemic banks, bringing to...

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  3. Athens not put out by Turkey-Egypt rapprochement, but watching closely
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    PoliticsForeign Policy

    Athens is assessing the results of the historic meeting between Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Wednesday, in Ankara. The two leaders discussed ways to further repair the long-frozen ties between the...

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  4. Extensive wildfires put extra strain on PM as he looks for clear path to TIF policy speech
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    The dense smoke that settled over Attica in recent days captured, with brutal clarity, the scale of the destruction Greece is facing this summer due to an extensive outbreak of wildfires. The deaths of five frontline firefighting personnel in less than ...

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  5. October revenues reverse earlier shortfall, annual primary surplus in sight

    Economy

    to the targets being beaten over the last four months, even though there is a steady increase

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  6. 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 the new property tax, which unites previous disparate levies in one charge, through Parliament. The new

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  7. First round of local elections leave Greek politics finely balanced
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    Democracy’s incumbent Vassilis Michaloliakos was beaten into second place by independent Yiannis Moralis

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  8. Samaras shoots, Samaras scores!
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    Agora

    “Samaras rescues Greece” – it’s the headline the prime minister and many in his office would have cherished. But Giorgos Samaras, the striker without a club, has beaten premier Antonis to the title of saviour thanks to his injury time penalty on Wednesday, which ushered Greece into the second round

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  9. Wages index edges up YoY in Q1 after sinking by 24.8 pct since 2010

    EconomyMacroeconomy

    beaten by that of Cyprus (-7.9 percent). In addition, Greece and Cyprus are the only two countries

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  10. Increased revenues push Greek budget primary surplus up to 2.28 bln at end of July

    EconomyMacroeconomy

    and means that the primary surplus target was beaten by 1.48 billion euros. The fiscal performance

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