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Tsipras ponders risking reshuffle to finish review on time, get debt talks going
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThere is growing speculation that Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is on the verge of announcing... that the prime minister is reportedly considering. Other government officials said to be on the way out... the prime minister was due to fly to Beijing. Until late last week, it was thought that Tsipras would
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Newsletter 100 - 16/12/2016
and dependent to a large extent on the discussion that Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras was due to have... Eurogroup because of doubts regarding the benefits for pensioners announced by Prime Minister Alexis... believes is needed to conclude the review, it would leave the Greek prime minister with very few options
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Newsletter 99 - 09/12/2016
speculation PM announces 2016 surplus will be redistributed to pensioners Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras... fuelled speculation that snap elections might be around the corner and that the prime minister is trying... and the resignation of Prime Minister Matteo Renzi overshadowed this week’s Eurogroup meeting on Greece
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Tsipras weighs up options amid concern about mired talks
PoliticsGreek Politicsof concluding the second review. Last week’s pledge from Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to distribute more.... The prime minister is due to follow this up with a visit to the small island of Nisyros on Tuesday... solution, invariably involving talks between the Greek prime minister and the leaders of France
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Tsipras gets no encouragement from lenders, left to consider next move
PoliticsGreek PoliticsFollowing his meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin on Friday, Prime Minister... and reach the 3.5 percent primary surplus creditors are looking for. Merkel, as well as Dutch Prime... to take place with the institutions and the Eurogroup. The Greek prime minister must now consider what
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Newsletter 110 - 10/03/2017
on the Greek side, from Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, and the European lenders to ensure.... However, this would lead to a deal that Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras would have trouble selling... on the medium-term debt relief that is the Greek prime minister’s other carrot in the negotiations
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Tsipras upbeat on debt relief prospects, lenders more cautious
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Alexis Tsipras has provided an upbeat assessment of the chances that an agreement... if Greece secures a debt reduction. The Greek prime minister based this on the discussions that he... on Monday. The Greek prime minister did admit that the ongoing dispute between Germany and the IMF over
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Athens cautious after Skopje suggests concession on name issue
PoliticsForeign Policygovernment under Prime Minister Zoran Zaev will change its stance with regards to the name issue... former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski’s policy of renaming airports and national highways after... at the Bucharest Summit in 2008. During the recent NATO summit in Brussels, the prime ministers of Albania
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Tsipras tries to keep government's eyes on the prize
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Alexis Tsipras called on his government to step up its work as he completed, ahead... primarily to be for the prime minister to present the deal clinched in Luxembourg as a success... a development bank. Deputy Prime Minister Yiannis Dragasakis chaired a meeting of the economic policy
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Tsipras makes PASOK opening amid domestic troubles
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Alexis Tsipras has indicated that he is starting to make political plans... the end of the memorandum,” said the prime minister. This is the most obvious opening that Tsipras has... of the abyss,” said the prime minister. Tsipras’s overtures were immediately rejected by PASOK
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