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Mitsotakis win sends ripples through other opposition parties
PoliticsGreek PoliticsDemocracy’s leadership elections, reactions from other opposition parties to the liberal politician’s victory have already begun. Mitsotakis’s election could lead to PASOK and To Potami being... into problems, PASOK and Potami may have the chance to pick up votes themselves. PASOK’s immediate
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Mitsotakis targets Tsipras, floating voters and populists in first speech to his MPs
PoliticsGreek Politicsout his immediate priorities as the party’s new president. As expected, Mitsotakis was heavy in his... New Democracy would be a thorn in the coalition’s side. Mitsotakis repeated his pledge not to vote for the government’s proposed pension reforms, which Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos has been
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Coalition's future in question over minister's gaffe
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGreece’s governing coalition was plunged into uncertainty on Tuesday night after Migration Policy... with Skopje. The refugee crisis and FYROM’s decision to close its borders to migrants has raised... between the two countries. Nevertheless, the level of backlash to Mouzalas’s comment was surprising
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Leaked IMF exchange sours mood before bailout review resumes
PoliticsGreek Politicsof a secretly recorded conversation between Poul Thomsen, the head of the International Monetary Fund’s... the differences between Greece’s creditors. Velculescu voiced her concerns about resuming the review without... representative’s concern about the quality of the measures that will be proposed by the Greek side
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Tsipras plays to domestic gallery over IMF dispute
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe IMF’s failings, including the controversy over the fiscal multipliers, by using the word “nonsense,” which was chosen by the Fund’s managing director, Christine Lagarde to describe the theory that its officials want Greece to go bankrupt to force the European’s hand on the bailout review. Also
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What next for Tsipras the shapeshifter?
![Photo by Myrto Papadopoulos [www.myrtopapadopoulos.com]](resources/toolip/img-thumb/2013/11/21/tsipras_1000_myrto_2111-medium.jpg "Photo by Myrto Papadopoulos [www.myrtopapadopoulos.com]")
Agorafavour with Angela Merkel at every opportunity, Tsipras’s persona and priorities have fluctuated... the Greek prime minister’s aversion to the International Monetary Fund. When relations between the SYRIZA-led coalition and Greece’s lenders were at a nadir last summer, before Tsipras capitulated
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Davutoglu departure prompts concern about Turkish unpredictability in Athens
PoliticsForeign PolicyDavutoglu’s decision to step down at an extraordinary congress of his ruling AK Party later this month.... Ankara’s positions on these issues have not change and are not affected by political developments. This is because decisions on major diplomatic issues are not taken by Turkey’s foreign ministers or prime
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A Eurogroup deal that might be hard to stomach
AgoraGreece and its lenders, an agreement was reached to disburse 10.3 billion euros from the programme’s... conference that followed the meeting, the European Stability Mechanism’s Klaus Regling and Poul... not lose too much face. Here’s what it means for the key players. Greece First of all, the outcome
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Shaping the post-programme narrative in Greece
AgoraRenzi overshadowed last week’s Eurogroup meeting on Greece. The December 5 monthly reunion of finance ministers took stock of the second review currently being carried out by Greece’s official creditors. The agreed roadmap of short-term measures to make the country’s sovereign debt more manageable
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Newsletter 108 - 24/02/2017
with pitfalls. Monday’s Eurogroup produced some progress as the Greek side agreed that it would legislate... and cut existing pensions when, until recently, it had promised it would not do so. The government’s response has been to when he spoke to MPs in Parliament on Thursday. The coalition’s line
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