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Coalition puts on fresh face but poll sees support draining away
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe government’s new spokesman, Dimitris Tzanakopoulos, (the 34-year-old who headed Alexis Tsipras’s political office since last year) made his first appearance in his new role on Tuesday but the latest opinion poll underlines that the coalition will ne...
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Tsakalotos appears but gives little away about negotiations with creditors
PoliticsGreek PoliticsFinance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos admitted in Parliament on Thursday that there would be “winners and losers” from any agreement the government reaches with its lenders on the measures and counter-measures needed to conclude the review but did not prov...
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Final decision on 2019 fiscal measures still a few weeks away
EconomyProgrammeThe first step in the process of deciding whether Greece will have to implement next year fiscal measures worth 1 or 2 percent of GDP is due to be taken on Friday, with the International Monetary Fund stressing that several more weeks are needed before ...
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Last bailout tranche just days away as pension discussion looms
EconomyProgrammeAll the hurdles have been cleared for Greece to receive the last tranche of the third and final bailout as focus shifts to the discussions that Athens is due to have with the institutions in the coming weeks, particularly on the issue of next year’s pen...
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Mitsotakis promises 'new normality,' lines up tax cuts straight away
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has set out his government’s priorities for the next four years, including the broad aim of establishing a new, post-crisis reality in Greece, but also with extensive reference to specific measures, with tax cuts leadi...
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EU enlargement - a moving target that is moving further away
AgoraIn 2020, none of the six countries of the Western Balkans has made progress in the process of European integration. It is true that they could have done more, but this still begs the question of whether the process itself "is working" if no one is makin...
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Govt bats away pushback allegations as migration attitudes harden
PoliticsGreek PoliticsNew media allegations of pushbacks of migrants from the Greek borders and a stern warning from the UN have led the Greek government to issue a statement defending its humanitarian record and denying the use of illegal and dangerous border defence practi...
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Expulsion of diplomats moves Greece further away from Russia, focus turns to energy
PoliticsForeign PolicyBilateral relations between Greece and Russia entered uncharted waters after Athens made yet another momentous foreign policy decision by deciding to declare last week 12 Russian diplomats personae non gratae. Greece joined on April 6 other European sta...
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As restrictions drop away, Apr travel balance beats even pre-Covid levels
EconomyMacroeconomyGreece’s travel balance recorded a surplus of 432.1 million euros in April, from 77 million euros in March, according to Bank of Greece (BoG) data released on Tuesday. April’s balance was significantly higher than the 3.2 million euros registered in Apr...
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Explanations sought as PM backs away from prospect of early elections
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe fallout from Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s insistence this week that he does not have plans to call snap elections in the autumn continued on Friday as the local media attempted to explain his decision given that early polls were considered a near certainty...
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