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Privatisation revenues edge upward as end-of-year deadline looms
EconomyFeaturesWith three quarters of the year now gone, the Greek government still has much ground to cover.... The network’s tunnel system has also not been fully certified - out of 73 tunnels, 17 still have outstanding... in the company. HRADF’s CEO Aris Xenofos has commented in a radio interview that the fund expects
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Newsletter 176 -28/09/2018
that the discussion with the institutions over next year’s reduction to pension spending has not been..., especially as Greek bond yields are higher than the government would like. It has been suggested... future. His threat last week to walk out on the coalition if Greek Parliament has to ratify
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Newsletter 179 -19/10/2018
to maintain unity Alexis Tsipras has to guide his government through another storm after the resignation... part in the ballot as things stand. However, even if Kotzias has no intention of leading a newly... political future. By leaving the government now, he has a chance to distance himself from the deal
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Greece's never-ending election campaign
Agorathe prolonged pre-election period Greece has entered is damaging the country. There is nothing wrong... as bribes in connection to a 2003 defence deal. Although he has not yet been convicted, the government has used Papantoniou’s case to bring back into the public debate the “old vs new” divide
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Parties locked in tug of war over troubled universities
SocietyMinister Kostas Gavroglou has accused Mitsotakis of being driven by an “extreme neoliberal fixation” whose ultimate aim is to abolish free state education. Mitsotakis has pledged to bring a comprehensive...-reform Pledging to scrap a predecessor’s education policy has become a recurring motif in Greek
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Newsletter 186 -07/12/2018
weeks with the post-programme reforms it has promised. With the pension issue now settled... law has been submitted under the emergency procedure, which means that it should be voted on within... as the Eurogroup has to decide before the end of February whether the reform process is on track
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Ball in Greece's court after Skopje completes approval of name deal
Foreign PolicyGreek Politicsthe latter will officially announce that it has successfully completed its obligations deriving from... as his government is officially informed by Skopje that it has concluded its domestic process, he... Accession Protocol could last 5-6 days, respectively. It has been suggested that NATO is expecting
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Macedonia name issue: Agreement and disagreement
Agoraaims at resolving this 30-year-old dispute. The whole agreement has been built around the fact... a state that has been recognised as Republic of Macedonia by more than 130 countries agrees to amend..., Greece has agreed – according to Article 11 of the Interim Accord - not to veto the accession
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Newsletter 192 -01/02/2019
at. Specifically, the comparison was made with Portugal, which has a yield that is eight times lower...-looking leader, much of his party sees things differently and has not changed much from its old ways..., there has been some speculation that the SYRIZA leader might consider more seriously than before the goal
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SYRIZA and ND battle over centre ground with different methods, aims
PoliticsGreek PoliticsDemocracy has recently courted the political centre by including some moderates on its list of European... politics. In a similar vein, New Democracy has also been trying to highlight over the last few days... parliamentary majority. SYRIZA SYRIZA, on the other hand, has a different approach to appealing
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