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Tsipras seizes on PM's surveillance comments in last-ditch attempt to boost poll hopes
PoliticsGreek PoliticsA series of seemingly unguarded comments by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis during a televised debate has rekindled opposition attacks over the government’s role in the surveillance of journalists... the leaders of Greece’s political parties on Wednesday, Mitsotakis’s answer to a journalist’s question
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Podcast - How much is Greece getting out of the RRF?
Agoratransform the country. A couple of years in, how is Greece 2.0 performing? Has it had a transformative... of the questions that Nick Malkoutzis and MacroPolis features editor Georgia Nakou attempt to answer
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ESM and EFSF approve short-term debt relief measures for Greece
EconomyProgrammeexchange stood at 29.9 billion euros at the end of September. An additional debt relief measure adopted... that the smoothing of Greece’s EFSF repayment profile, which is the third debt relief measure, will be carried out...The short-term debt relief measures for Greece were approved by the board of directors (BoD
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Newsletter 245 -27/03/2020
months. The measure has drawn criticism from the opposition parties, which describe it as an attempt... in the economic support package it has put together, noting that other countries have committed 10-15 pct... inthe public health system, but Petsas claimed that Greece now has 813 ICU beds available to treat
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Eurogroup highlights tight schedule as differences over debt, fiscal measures brew
EconomyProgrammeon the DSA because our DSA runs until the year 2060, and whatever measure is initiated to strengthen... targets. However, this would mean implementing the measure along with the pension cuts due in 2019... and then securing an agreement on the debt restructuring measures and the framework that will be in place
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Newsletter 155 -16/03/2018
of fourth review The week began and ended with the Greek government being left in no doubt that it has... on the DSA because our DSA runs until the year 2060, and whatever measure is initiated to strengthen... this week of trying to distance itself from Greek-Russian businessman Ivan Savvidis, with whom it has
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As budget talks drag on, parties focus on inflicting damage via graft claims
PoliticsGreek PoliticsCommission, meanwhile, believes that there is a fiscal gap of 0.4 percent of GDP that has to be plugged... that the unresolved issues will be settled by mid-November. However, Athens has not been able to kill off, so... elections. In the absence of a deal, New Democracy has kept up the pressure on the prime minister
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One year of SYRIZA
Agoraown Great Depression, or perhaps Greater Depression given that it has been bumping along the bottom... at home and abroad has been that a recovery is just around the corner. Each time events have proved them... that the outcome would be any different. Nevertheless, the SYRIZA-led government has been a disappointment
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PASOK pushes back against PM's refusal to tax excess bank profits
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat the government expects much from Greece’s lenders but that it has no plans to impose an extra... that his government is aiming to convince Greece’s European partners and the markets that the country has “left behind its difficult years.” The PM said that the government has to explain to citizens
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New Democracy continues to court right-wing voters with defence package, identity politics
PoliticsGreek PoliticsDemocracy has little to be complacent about, while rumblings from the conservative wing of the party... parliamentary party convenes to elect a new head. The PM’s pick, MP Apostolos Vesyropoulos, has already... candidate from the traditional wing of the party. Mitsotakis has promised to give the podium to any MP
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