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PM's Washington visit looms over domestic politics, review schedule
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAlexis Tsipras’s visit to Washington. The highlight of the Greek leader’s trip to the USA, which... seems to believe that the trip will help Athens’s efforts to show that the country is turning a corner... year’s budget following the slip in revenues this year, and the launch of the electronic platform
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Newsletter 138
to the state, according to reports. A decision on what will be done with this year’s excess surplus... Public Power Corporation will receive some of the funds. The poor state of PPC’s finances was one... among the lenders about the dangers that PPC’s financial difficulties could pose to the Greek economy
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Moody's upgrades rating to 'B3,' amid confidence about political outlook, economic prospects
EconomyIn an unexpected move on Wednesday night, Moody’s was the latest ratings agency to upgrade Greece’s...’s rating, which was last upgraded in the summer of 2017, was well behind those of S&P and Fitch. Both upgraded Greece to ‘B’ in the last few weeks. Moody’s rating is the equivalent of ‘B
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Newsletter 162 -18/05/2018
of the Public Power Corporation’s lignite-powered units. Stathakis said there was also an agreement..., there are still concerns about whether Greece’s European lenders will arrive at an agreement on the debt... on Tuesday, the head of the IMF’s European Department Poul Thomsen suggested that the Fund still
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Greece-Russia spat intensifies but Athens hopes worst is over
PoliticsForeign Policyby the Russia’s Ambassador to Greece Andrey Maslov that Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has cancelled plans.... The cancellation of the Lavrov’s meeting prompted a meeting between Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras... Earlier on Thursday, in a statement to Russia’s Tass news agency, Maslov said Lavrov’s visit
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Newsletter 173 -07/09/2018
about what promises Tsipras is likely to make. According to the publication’s unnamed sources... cuts so the fiscal space for compensatory measures will be dependent on this year’s excess primary... workers in total are affected by the government’s decision. SYRIZA is hoping that the combination
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Deal or no deal? Greece wrestles with the Macedonia issue
Agorato settle the longstanding dispute between Athens and Skopje and which will lead to Greece’s... Macedonia’s language being recognised as “Macedonian” and its people as “Macedonian/Citizen of the Republic... of cultural and historical appropriation, epitomised by the liberal use of Alexander the Great’s
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Strong showing in local elections for ND as it targets majority in national vote
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat are backed by the conservatives. This includes Greece’s largest, Attica, where centre-right candidate Giorgos Patoulis easily beat off SYRIZA’s incumbent, Rena Dourou with around two thirds of the vote. Dourou’s crushing defeat is another blow to SYRIZA as she was the party’s leading local
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Talks to begin on plan to rescue PPC from dire financial straits
Economyof privatising the firm, the minister said that the company’s finances were so bad that nobody would... by an independent consultant. No bids qualified for the Megalopolis unit. PPC’s full-year results... euros in the same quarter last year. The results also revealed that the company’s market share fell
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Tsipras aiming to guide SYRIZA towards new territory in opposition
PoliticsGreek Politics. SYRIZA’s parliamentary group met for the first time on Tuesday ahead of the debate on the government’s programme, which is due to begin on Saturday afternoon and which will culminate in the customary vote of confidence on Monday evening. Ahead of Tuesday’s meeting, it was reported that Tsipras
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