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Newsletter 108 - 24/02/2017
and the lenders did not reveal what fiscal impact these measures must have. The International Monetary Fund has... has made it clear that it wants Berlin to relax its demands for a 3.5 percent of GDP primary... month. There has been little indication of how flexible the quartet are willing
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Lack of trade-offs for Athens keep deal with creditors out of reach
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe lack of progress during this weekend’s talks between Greece and the institutions has lowered... Monetary Fund. The latter’s stance has caused great frustration within the government, which... measures. With regard to the labour market, the Greek government has been clear that it would like
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Newsletter 110 - 10/03/2017
Monetary Fund spokesman Gerry Rice said there has been progress in important areas.... It appears, for instance, that the Greek side has accepted the pre-legislation of 2 percent of GDP (3.6... of the fiscal counter-measures it has identified, such as lowering VAT on electricity
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PASOK in turmoil, Mitsotakis strengthens ties with church
PoliticsGreek Politicsleader Kyriakos Mitsotakis has chosen to strengthen his support among the party’s traditional... has had an uneasy relationship since replacing him in June 2015. Venizelos and others within... that she has turned her back on the possibility of working with New Democracy in a future coalition
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Newsletter 118 - 12/05/2017
reading since 2001 for April, a month that has had a positive employment balance for the past 17 years... up the legislative process. The Greek justice system, including the Court of Audit, has ruled cuts... and economic necessity has led to the judgements being ignored. The Council of Audit’s decision
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The reflection in Golden Dawn's mirror
Agora235 MPs voted in favour of cutting off state funding to the extremist party, there has been... the trial of Golden Dawn members for the murder of rapper Pavlos Fyssas and several other attacks has progressed since arrests were made four years ago. The case has only inched forward following
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UN steers clear of Cyprus blame game as focus moves to hydrocarbons
PoliticsForeign PolicyUnited Nations Special Advisor to Cyprus Espen Barth Eide has urged all sides to abandon the blame... record of everything that has happened “because it is clear and it was also an element of almost every... in Cyprus's Exclusive Economic Zone, which have prompted an angry reaction from Turkey. The UN has
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Reshuffle rumours surface as Tsipras prepares plan for autumn
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Alexis Tsipras has been meeting his ministers ahead of the brief summer break... to conduct a cabinet reshuffle before the autumn. There are two key issues that Tsipras has to address... of the third review, which is due to begin in October/November. The government has made a point of saying
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SYRIZA tests PASOK waters with talk of possible alliance
PoliticsGreek Politicsreligion and other ideological issues. Kammenos has repeatedly insisted that the two parties... SYRIZA that perhaps the alliance between the leftists and the right-wing nationalists of ANEL has run its course. This has come to fore since the policy-making focus moves to issues that are not linked
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Greek demographic ratios among the worst in Europe
Societyin Europe with 1.3 children per woman. This pattern has remained in place for at least the last... the last wave of emigration which occurred in the 1970s, Greece this time around has lost large... is currently far too low to replace the population it has lost to emigration. The country’s fertility
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