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  1. In survival bid, coalition seeks to ease taxpayer burden, secure early bailout exit
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    in up to 100 tranches. For debts of more than 15,000 euros, up to 72 instalments will be provided... on surcharges. The annual interest rate for the debt is set at 4.56 percent from more than 8 percent.... The scheme can only be put together after the results of the European Central Bank’s stress tests

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  2. Probe into LAOS leader could spark contest for party's voters

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    million euros worth of Super Puma helicopters to the Greek armed forces in more than a decade ago... 2.7 percent. Although not enough to elect any MEPs, the percentage was higher than Karatzaferis’s... ballot, however, put LAOS back in the game. In the wake of the May ballot the possibility emerged

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  3. Greece: Where did it all go wrong?
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    Agora

    with no penchant for reforms or anything other than picking a fight with SYRIZA. The removal... 18 months ahead of schedule. The markets, whose opinion Samaras had put stock in several months..., the International Monetary Fund would retain a role rather than bringing a successful end to its cooperation

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  4. The one question SYRIZA needs to answer
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    Agora

    inevitable and all developments with regards to concluding the latest troika review will be put on hold... to more than half by August. Assuming a similar pattern next year, Greece will need approximately 1.5.... The cumulative primary cash position to September was around 2.8 billion euros and no more than 2.4 billion

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  5. PM and SYRIZA deaf to calls for compromise over president so far
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    that he was expressing a personal opinion rather than a party position. Another PASOK lawmaker, Nikos... opens a discussion about a compromise deal he will probably have to give more ground than he wants and his premiership might even be put in doubt. SYRIZA has been equally reluctant to consider backing

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  6. Venizelos ready to work with SYRIZA but leftists and Papandreou to have last say
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    not be enough for Papandreou’s party to enter Parliament and put him rather than Venizelos in the role... Parliament elections in May but opinion polls indicate it will get less than this. The new factor

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  7. New Democracy and PASOK ponder next moves after election defeat

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    parties over the next few weeks. Despite Antonis Samaras’s attempt to put on a brave face when... winning margin of more than 8.5 percentage points raises questions about whether Samaras will be able... than stressing what the government had achieved in the previous two years. There was also

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  8. Another euro stitch unpicked
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    Agora

    a case of denial, the new coalition is left in no other position than to downplay the significance... was withdrawn from Greek banks in December and January, which is much higher than usual. While ELA could... is no stranger to being put in a tight spot by the ECB. In April 2011, the central bank’s

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  9. What are the implications of the ECB's decision for Greek banks?
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    Ministry issued a statement explaining the ECB’s decision as one designed “to put pressure... amount is less than 10 billion, around 4-5 billion for pillar III and close to 5 billion for GGBs. Until... above the ECB funding cost of 0.05 percent. However, it is still lower than the average time

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  10. Greece's extension proposals to the Eurogroup and what they mean
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    it would put an end to. Secondly, the letter from Athens, signed by Varoufakis, relegates the issue... be restricted with a two-thirds majority of ECB Governing Council votes cast. Note though that more than 40... for more than 50 percent of nominal debt to be written down. In his interview with the Financial

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