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Newsletter 2 - 07/11/2014
Greece eyes post-bailout era Part of HFSF buffer set to be used as precautionary credit line After... arrangements”. This gives the Greek authorities up to one month to complete negotiations with the troika on the key pending issues of the current review. One of the main obstacles is the 2015 fiscal gap
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All the numbers that matter in the Greek presidential election
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PoliticsGreek Politicsbut this process will now intensify as the outcome of the vote hangs in the balance. The government is set... ballot and a date for early elections. One of them (Nikos Tsoukalis), though, said on Monday that he... are not in the coalition’s favour but one of the reasons Samaras and Venizelos opted for an earlier ballot
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SYRIZA's poll lead consistent but parliamentary majority elusive
PoliticsGreek Politicsindicate that the leftists are set for a victory in less than two weeks. Another common feature... #Greece — MacroPolis (@MacroPolis_gr) January 12, 2015 The Public Issue poll is the only one..., the survey’s results project only 151 out of 300 seats going to the leftist party. One of the key
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Searching for electoral manifestos and overcoming voting obstacles in Greece
Agora. However, one of the most important constituencies to be addressed in these elections, namely first-time... real economy is particularly acute in the small and medium-sized enterprise sector. One... compromises will require an entirely different set of approaches to policy making from SYRIZA. The misplaced
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Top SYRIZA officials hint at path to compromise with eurozone
PoliticsGreek Politicsnegotiations with the country’s lenders. Debt relief One of the central themes in SYRIZA’s campaign... the initial tension but there would also be another couple of short-term hurdles to overcome. One is how... some of the measures set out in its Thessaloniki Programme. It appears that funding needs debt
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In decision to ally with Independent Greeks, Tsipras takes high risk option
PoliticsGreek Politics. Kammenos looks set to get control of the defense ministry in return, possibly with other cabinet.... One involved ex-Prime Minister George Papandreou's brother, who Kammenos falsely accused... in December that there was an attempt to buy the vote of one of its MPs during the presidential ballot
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Newsletter 13 - 30/01/2015
different philosophy from the one that has governed the bailouts since 2010. It remains to be seen if Greece... trend. The government is set to announce its policy programme on February 7–9 during the vote... mandate in mathematical terms. Among one of the many immediate challenges facing the new
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Greece and lenders with conceptual, as well as practical, gaps to bridge
PoliticsGreek PoliticsMartin Schulz, Varoufakis set out the government’s ideas on how Athens envisages its relationship.... The process will clearly be a difficult one, made only more complicated by SYRIZA’s tendency... years. One of the variable factors in this process, though, is how Greek banks will be affected
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Here's why Greece's fiscal difficulties will dominate the agenda
EconomyProgrammereflects a Public Investment Budget (PIB) deficit of 930 million euros. Property tax One of SYRIZA’s... the new property tax will be based on new “objective” prices set by tax authorities... billion and initially indicated it would target to fetch revenues at one-third of the collectable
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Coalition ready to pass first legislation as agenda for lenders' talks grows
PoliticsGreek Politicslegislation in Parliament this week as technical talks with lenders aimed at agreeing a set of reforms... for the SYRIZA-led government that the first piece of legislation it passes should be one aimed at helping... programme, especially as this was one of the areas of policy making where previous governments were
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