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  1. Samaras, Venizelos opt for earlier presidential vote in high-risk strategy to save coalition
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    for surprise moves in the past but the latest one represents a high-risk strategy that just might help... for if the coalition survives. Loose ends This is one advantage of an early presidential vote for the government... the potential to backfire. One independent MP, Mimis Androulakis (ex-PASOK) took to Twitter

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  2. Opposition parties' stance on president provides gov't with little hope so far
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    SYRIZA, the one-time coalition partner decided late on Wednesday that it would not make such a move... in the first round next Wednesday proves disappointing. One of the reasons that a left-leaning candidate... such an intention. In fact, one – Pavlos Haikalis – has said he will not vote for Dimas. This currently

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  3. Newsletter 8 - 19/12/2014

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    calm for now Situation may change if general election follows December 29 vote One of the key concerns... identifying someone who had been one of its own a few years ago as a “committed European” and openly... that the media has been actively involved in sensationalising the claims of one side or the other without

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  4. Snap elections in Greece: The scenarios ahead

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    likely than the latter and so far only one polling company (Public Issue) has published projected... themselves are far from solidly united. Fellow anti-austerity party Independent Greeks is one option... in office for anything more than the short-term. No clear winner, back to square one There is strong

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  5. Tsipras delivers SYRIZA's first, tempered message of Greek election campaign
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    the policy points he set out in September during a speech at the Thessaloniki International Fair. One... on one later this month. Tsipras spent much of his speech going over the economic programme he presented... licences. Tsipras said that his party would unite all the public watchdogs under one umbrella

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  6. Newsletter 12 - 23/01/2015

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    prominently during the election campaign. Rather, one could frequently get the impression that private sector... future and its economic outlook. But when one listened to the vocal protagonists of this electoral... out to be advantageous in more ways than one. Not only can urgent issues be addressed beyond

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  7. Understanding the German approach towards Greece
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    , that motivation has only marginally increased with the actual establishment of one such party... of that belief. One paper, the centre-left SZ, even went as far as to suggest that Draghi (and not Germany... In the negotiations with the troika, and Germany as one important country behind the European

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  8. First signs from new Greek government point to awkward meetings with lenders
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    stake of 8.4 percent in OLP. COSCO was one of the 5 qualified bidders for next phase of the tender. Note that COSCO, one of the largest Chinese state-owned conglomerates, signed a 35-year concession... Minister Panos Skourletis stressed on Tuesday that one of the government’s imminent priorities

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  9. Greece prepares set of proposals for bridging deal with eurozone

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    One day after Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’s presented his government’s policy programme... pillar is focussed on tackling the humanitarian crisis, which was one of the key SYRIZA policies... (estimated cost at 756 million). 2) Restoration of the 13th pension (Christmas bonus) - equal to one

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  10. So far and yet so near for Greece and eurozone after second abortive Eurogroup
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    that he was prepared to sign but that this was later changed to one that was not acceptable... that Varoufakis said he was satisfied with. The debate over the various draft statements is in one sense..., which is one of the eurozone’s main concerns about the SYRIZA-led coalition. At the same time, Greece

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