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Could Democratic Left (DIMAR) hold the key to the Greek presidential election result?
PoliticsGreek PoliticsDemocratic Left (DIMAR) will be crucial. The party’s parliamentary group and executive committee is due to meet on Wednesday to decide DIMAR’s next step. The focus, however, will not be on how the party’s... decided several weeks ago that the group would not back the coalition’s candidate. Instead
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Top SYRIZA officials hint at path to compromise with eurozone
PoliticsGreek Politicsmajority, so the comments coming from the party’s leading officials have shifted towards a more conciliatory approach towards Greece’s lenders. SYRIZA still insists that it will not negotiate directly... negotiations with the country’s lenders. Debt relief One of the central themes in SYRIZA’s campaign
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Reform proposals to define size of Tsipras's task in keeping party on board
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Alexis Tsipras’s effort to keep his party on board with the terms of the agreement at Friday’s Eurogroup begins in earnest on Monday when lenders are due to examine the government’s... that there is no attempt by Athens to include any of SYRIZA’s pre-election pledges such as changing the payment plan
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Newsletter 23 - 17/04/2015
government’s insistence that an agreement can be reached very quickly. On Thursday, Prime Minister... either not pass such legislation through Parliament due to his coalition’s slim majority or that if he succeeded in getting approval for it, his party’s ratings would plummet. There is no reason
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Moody's downgrades Greek bond rating, sees chances of accident rising
EconomyMoody’s downgraded late on Wednesday Greece’s government bond rating by one notch to Caa2 from Caa1... by three notches to ‘CCC’ on March 27 and of S&P by one notch to ‘CCC+/C’ on April 15. Moody’s... official creditors. Moody’s notes that the current Greek rating is historically associated
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Newsletter 28 - 29/05/2015
slim. Instead, it seems more likely that Greece’s lenders will present Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras... legislation is taking on an increasingly pivotal role in Greece’s fiscal consolidation efforts... brings in and Greece’s tight fiscal position, it seems highly likely that this tax will be retained
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Tsipras tries to stem losses to left ahead of snap elections
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAlexis Tsipras will handpick SYRIZA’s candidates for the upcoming snap elections as he tries.... It is expected that SYRIZA, freed of the restrictions created by the Left Platform’s ideological... candidate list reflects SYRIZA’s need to make up for the votes that it will lose to its left
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Newsletter 43 - 18/09/2015
win Sunday’s vote. The surveys suggest that these could be the closest elections since 2000, when around 70,000 votes decided the contest in PASOK’s favour over New Democracy. There are certain... downturn and the major structural reforms demanded by Greece’s lenders, there could be a feeling in all
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Newsletter 48 - 23/10/2015
throughout the week. Since the European Central Bank’s Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM) is expected...’s board decided at that time that the share capital increase of 5.84 Market sources envisage.... billion be fully subscribed by the HFSF. Thus, the HFSF’s participation in Eurobank’s share
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Newsletter 49 - 30/10/2015
of 2 billion euros. A few days later, on October 27, the government’s council for economic policy... actions. The government’s optimism was also shared by the European Commission, which noted on October 28... reports claim that the quadriga’s proposal would protect less than one-fifth of indebted households
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