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  1. Paddling with a wooden spoon
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    Agora

    met at the Eurogroup has been pretty simple: look no further than German Finance Minister Wolfgang... ticked all of these boxes: Greece will get its funding (after jumping threw a few more hoops

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  2. IMF’s independent evaluation office identifies mistakes and challenges in Greece’s first programme
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    EconomyProgramme

    of all options available to the IMF, while key senior IMF officials were divided on the issue... was underfinanced, the IEO highlights. Although the programme targets were met in Ireland

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  3. Greek 2017 budget reveals size and source of extra tax burden
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    Agora

    collection in all tax categories. The anticipated decline is entirely attributed to reduced revenues... collection and over-performance does not guarantee that revenue targets will also be met in 2017. Also

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  4. Tsipras wins domestic support for pension bonus but key struggles lie abroad
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    . Mitsotakis was in Brussels on Thursday, when he met European Commission vice president Valdis Dombrovskis... to keep all the lenders happy, perhaps in the form of changing the fiscal mechanism adopted earlier

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  5. Tsipras gets no encouragement from lenders, left to consider next move
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    Minister Mark Rutte (who Tsipras met in Brussels on Thursday) are said to have made it clear... that the talks will not be over soon. Tsipras will have to consider all these aspects in the coming

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  6. Key fiscal differences lower expectations for Eurogroup
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    surplus targets are met. According to the rumoured proposal, which reportedly came from the European side... after the programme expires in 2018. When all this is taken into account, it seems the best that Athens

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  7. Tsipras facing limited options as he waits for signs from IMF
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    deadline when eurozone finance ministers met last week. It seems that while there could be an agreement... government has 153 MPs, this would either involve getting all the deputies from PASOK, the Union

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  8. Lenders make proposal to Athens but no immediate breakthrough expected
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    . Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos met with the heads of the institutions and Eurogroup chief Jeroen..., Dijsselbloem described the talks as “constructive” and that “substantial progress” was made, leaving all

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  9. Cyprus talks take a buffeting as leaders fall out

    PoliticsForeign Policy

    -communal clashes in the 1960s that saw them withdraw from all the state bodies and move to enclaves... met with Akinci’s insistence that the decision be repealed. Anastasiades publicly admitted

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  10. IMF comments, blog leave no doubt credible debt relief has to be agreed soon
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    EconomyProgramme

    subject to credible fiscal targets being met is addressed towards Greece’s European lenders... will only sap the effectiveness of the debtor’s adjustment efforts, ultimately making all parties

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