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  1. Spree of media deals puts spotlight back on ownership issues

    Society

    the monopoly on print press distribution, and was already at an advanced stage of licensing a new TV channel, ONE TV, when he purchased MEGA. The MEGA deal follows Marinakis’s bid to purchase... platform Nova TV, which owns the broadcast rights for most of the Greek football SuperLeague

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  2. In hindsight it would have been nicer

    Agora

    on the 5th of June after its contents were leaked by the Wall Street Journal's Matina Stevis, the IMF openly

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  3. It remains a mystery
    Photo by Can Esenbel [www.mundanepleasure.com]

    Agora

    The Wall Street Journal leaked this week the minutes of an International Monetary Fund board meeting in May, 2010, just a few days before Greece signed its first bailout. The extracts reveal that there was serious concern among about a third of the country representatives, who raised serious

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  4. How big is Greek fiscal gap? Will cuts be needed? Here's our Q&A

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    wall in its discussions with technocrats from the European Commission, European Central Bank

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  5. Last man standing
    Photo by Can Esenbel [www.mundanepleasure.com]

    Agora

    together on this issue, and others, is much like trying to nail jelly to the wall. It was only

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  6. Greece’s first bailout, lenders and their pledge to maintain debt exposure
    Photo by Harry van Versendaal

    EconomyProgramme

    The Wall Street Journal and El Pais published over the weekend a revealing record of the minutes from the International Monetary Fund’s board meeting in May 2010, which sealed the organizations participation in the first Greek bailout. “The Dutch, French and German chairs conveyed to the Board

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  7. Troika returning to Greece but key decisions still months away
    Photo by Harry van Versendaal

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    for the 12 months ahead. A report in the Wall Street Journal indicated that a commitment to a specific

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  8. Why did Greece return to bond markets now? Was it the right decision?

    Economy

    percent, banks for 14 percent and pension and insurance funds for 4 percent. The Wall Street

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  9. Coalition caught between pleasing lenders and voters ahead of next troika review
    Photo by Harry van Versendaal

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    conditionality. The Wall Street Journal reported that the eurozone is considering attaching terms to any debt

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  10. Samaras seeks vote of confidence and moment of history
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    Agora

    Pop quiz: When was the last time Greece held elections at the end of the government’s four-year term? It was in 1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell, F.W. de Klerk started dismantling apartheid in South Africa, Soviet troops left Afghanistan, Chinese students demonstrated and were shot in Tiananmen

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