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Lesvos tragedy, Erdogan threat ratchet up refugee crisis pressure
PoliticsGreek Politicsit clear to those still in Turkey that they will get no further than the other side of the Aegean
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Tsipras springs surprise with handout pledge for pensioners
PoliticsGreek Politicswould be shared among roughly 1.6 million pensioners whose monthly retirement pay is lower than 850 euros. About 750 thousand pensioners will receive 300 euros, 570 thousand will get between 300
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Creation of unified social security fund poses new challenge for govt
PoliticsGreek Politicswill only intensify in the coming days as the government strives to get closer to an agreement... properly by the end of the year. EFKA begins its life with a deficit of more than 1 billion euros
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Athens gears up for deal with lenders, pending news from IMF
PoliticsGreek Politics(with debt relief being the biggest prize), the government seems confident it can get necessary approval... for Athens, which fears that he may make greater demands than the government is willing to accept, while
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Eurogroup agrees return of mission to Athens but key issues unresolved
PoliticsGreek Politicsand reducing pension spending) are considered reforms rather than further austerity. They also.... The argument about the package being fiscally neutral is unlikely to get much traction until the nature
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Greece and lenders trap themselves over labour reforms
Agorais the product market, rather than the labour market. “The reforms [carried out during the adjustment programmes... into a corner and donned their straightjackets. Some magic is needed to get out of this situation
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The scenarios ahead for Greece as review hangs in balance
PoliticsGreek Politicsmajority. If they win and gain more than 150 seats in the Greek Parliament, Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s party.... At that point, though, Greece should be able to get back on track and regain market access, allowing
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Athens and lenders stay mum on agreement, domestic reaction awaited
PoliticsGreek Politicstold the audience that the review would conclude sooner than most people think. Another high-ranking... accused the conservatives of acting as “mules” for unspecified interests that want to get involved
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Squeezed at home, ministers return to Brussels to look for deal with lenders
PoliticsGreek Politicsis for the differences with the lenders to be resolved and for the review to get moving again. Reports in the Greek... that Greece needs further reforms, rather than debt relief, Lagarde made it clear that she has a different
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Review set to resume in Athens as debt talks drag on
PoliticsGreek Politicsas the type of interventions (rather than the volume) are concerned. However, Berlin seems particularly... be needed in the future to get the Greek economy into shape. The other point made by Thomsen
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