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Newsletter 135 - 13/10/2017
articles, including the one allowing Greeks as young as 15 to choose their gender. One SYRIZA MP voted against the bill and two others abstained. Only one ANEL MP, from a total of nine, backed
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Sub-tranche released but PPC poses key challenge in review
EconomyProgrammestate of PPC’s finances was one of the topics of discussion during the recent visit by the mission... billion. In H1 2017 it recorded a profit of 14.4 million euros, which was entirely due to the one-off... of the country. One of the imminent actions expected after the lenders’ visit to Greece is the change
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Eurogroup marks start of countdown for prior actions
EconomyProgrammeon the SYRIZA-led coalition to implement the 95 prior actions included in the review. One matter... with the institutions. Some of the prior actions will prove trickier than others. One... criteria. Also, 180 have finalised their application and a further 670 have uploaded at least one document
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Eurogroup sees review conclusion in sight, warns over property auctions
EconomyProgramme-performing loans (NPLs), which has become one of the hot-button issues in the current review. Draghi’s..., the institutions see this as one possible way out of the impasse, which would allow the e-auctions to begin... a staff-level agreement that will pave the way for the third review to be concluded. It appears that one
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Newsletter 139 -10/11/2017
the one proposed by the coalition. He also challenged the opposition leader to explain where his party... an established and corrupt elite, which they claim Mitsotakis is part of. It looks set to form one... their worries that only one of 10 actions needed to start the project have been completed
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Will centre-left let go of past to grasp change?
Agorawho will lead the effort to unite the country’s centre-left forces has the potential to be one.... “…they think they have an imperial past which gives them a right to a grand funeral,” says one... of beliefs that are progressive and germane. Because if there is one thing the Greek centre-left can take
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Hitman's furlough and investment complications pose new problems for Tsipras
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe case. New Democracy MP Dora Bakoyannis, whose husband was killed by November 17, one... at a worse time for Tsipras. Apart from the fact that the redevelopment of Hellenikon promises to be one..., including the one at the EU-Arab World Summit in Athens on Thursday, that his government wants
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Greece and Albania hold private talks to tackle longstanding differences
PoliticsForeign PolicyNazi collaborators. For Athens, one of the main issues is the rights of the Greek minority... the change of its constitutional name. He also said that “no one should ask us to change our identity... in the Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO) in the security and defence sector. Greece is one of the EU
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Coalition battles it out with opposition over ammunition sale
PoliticsGreek Politicsprivate payments and that all money for the shells was to be transferred from one state to another... they wanted to 100,000, no money changed hands. This is one of the key difficulties the opposition has... that the current coalition is not the one that takes Greece out of the crisis and is in a position
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Piraeus Bank posts net loss of 19 mln euros in Q3, NPEs continue to fall
EconomyBankingof the stock of NPEs, 8.2 billion or one out of four, were not in arrears. The bank remains optimistic... for two NPE disposal transactions, one for business and one for consumer loans, of a total NPE on balance
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