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Tsipras faces lenders' wall in Brussels as political tension grows in Athens
PoliticsGreek PoliticsA new round of marathon talks are due to take place in Brussels on Thursday after a failure to reach an agreement on Wednesday. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras held two sets of talks totalling about six hours with European Commission president Jean-Claude...
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Effort to unite PASOK and Potami seems to have hit a wall
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe project to unite PASOK and To Potami in order to create a dynamic third force in Greek politics with the potential to be a key governing partner or kingmaker appears to be in danger of collapsing. Only a few days after the leaders of the two parties...
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Are Chinese investments starting to hit a wall in Germany?
AgoraFor two successive years, China has been Germany’s most important trading partner. In 2017, the trade volume between both countries reached 186,6 billion euro. Germany’s second most important trading partner was The Netherlands with 177 billion euro, fo...
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Public sector staff trends survive MoU exit, change of government
Societyin the census for the first time in 2020 skews the picture slightly, however 2020 also saw a record... after the fall of the Samaras government in January 2015. Under SYRIZA/ANEL it increased to a maximum... in by MoU-imposed restrictions on permanent hires saw governments resorting to temporary hires, leading
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Newsletter 339 - 27/05/2022
to 22.1 pct. This led to the gap between the pair narrowing to 9.9 points. PASOK-KINAL saw hardly any..., PASOK-KINAL saw its backing slip slightly, from 12.6 pct to 11.8 pct. The shifts over the two-week... rivals. He castigated SYRIZA for forming a coalition with far-right nationalists ANEL, warning
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Tsipras and Mitsotakis cheer Macron win, hope to benefit
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe victory of Emmanuel Macron in France’s presidential election as a potential boost for their political hopes. Tsipras tweeted shortly after it emerged that Macron had beaten far-right rival Marine Le Pen... these elections are important for Greeks,” said Moscovici “I know Emmanuel Macron very well,” added the EU
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Tsipras's choices are becoming clearer but not any easier
Agorasurplus target being beaten by 1.5 percentage points in 2016 (an assessment that the European... of Greece governor Yannis Stournaras said that a legally-binding commitment to implement further debt... into any binding discussion about debt relief. However, it is doubtful if Tsipras’s hard-pressed MPs
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This is where the last few days have left Greece and lenders
Agora, as well as the counter-measures that will be triggered if future fiscal targets are beaten. Once... in Greece. Debt relief The vital element to binding all this together and actually presenting Greece... programme with funding, as Germany and several other member states want. During her visit to Berlin
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New Democracy sticks by snap polls call as gov't looks to probe, tender for relief
PoliticsGreek Politicsended up being beaten to the punch by New Democracy. The government’s proposals was table... as the coalition’s majority on the panel would block any common findings. Of course, it would be embarrassing... for an investigation, which would lead to findings being published by the end of May, when the impact of any
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Athens waits for Moscovici visit, eyes debt relief and lower volume of measures
PoliticsGreek Politicsare beaten. However, this is not enough for Athens. It also wants clarity on the fiscal targets... of Greece governor Yannis Stournaras said that some legally-binding commitment to medium-term debt relief
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