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  1. Coalition agrees policy framework: Purpose unclear, impact doubtful
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    Sixteen months after one-time rivals Antonis Samaras and Evangelos Venizelos put aside... for their administration. However, as the accord comes more than a year after last summer’s fractious elections... of much of the paper’s contents makes it doubtful whether it can serve anything other than a very

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  2. Lack of troika deal leaves Greek coalition looking at bailout extension

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    over the size of the 2015 fiscal gap, for the two sides to need more than a few days to reach... official told Bloomberg that Athens would only consider a one-month technical extension rather than...) against the untested ideas being put forward by SYRIZA. This would, in a sense, be a lighter version

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  3. Greek funding needs add to pressure in talks between Athens and lenders

    EconomyProgramme

    . Even if both requests are approved, there is still a gap of more than 5 billion by August that has... for the payment of the VAT by one month and lower than expected revenues from the settlement.... The most recent reports by the European Commission and IMF put revenue from asset sales at 2.2 billion

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  4. Creditors devise proposal in Berlin, Tsipras prepares ground in Athens
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    on Monday night to discuss the details of the offer that will be put to Athens in a bid to conclude... deadline is to pressing to allow for any other route than a take-it-or-leave-it offer for Prime... of the discussion were made immediately available, other than a reference to the need for negotiations

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  5. SYRIZA seen marginally ahead as Tsipras and Meimarakis go head-to-head
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    a press conference at the Thessaloniki International Fair lasting more than three hours on Sunday. He appeared relatively comfortable in comparison to Tsipras, who put in a faltering performance during.... Interestingly, New Democracy supporters were far more convinced by Meimarakis than SYRIZA supporters

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  6. Poverty risk rate in Greece hits high of 36 pct in 2014
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    Society

    . That put Greece well above the EU average, where 24.4 percent (or 121.86 million people) were at risk...) and Latvia (21.2 percent) had a higher share. In 2014, the average disposable income in Greece was put.... For a couple with two children younger than 14 years, the figure was 9,677 euros. The data ranked Greece

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  7. Greek relief at EU-Turkey refugee deal but heavy lifting lies ahead
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    PoliticsForeign Policy

    will be provided by the EU, will be needed in order to put the scheme into operation. The EU has also appointed... to the people who are already in Greece. On Saturday, the Greek authorities put the number of refugees and migrants at more than 47,500. Although the pace of the relocation scheme announced last year

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  8. Greece and creditors eye compromise to move review along

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    agreement with the IMF will allow the Washington-based organisation to put down in writing... being put off for now and only being discussed after Athens has passed the agreed measures. Given... the IMF’s European director Poul Thomsen described as “Mickey Mouse”) to be tougher than those already

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  9. Eurozone sets out proposals for staggered debt relief for Greece

    EconomyProgramme

    to Greek debt: Short-term, medium-term and long-term. Any measures adopted will seek to put the debt back on a sustainable path over these distinct timeframes. The debt sustainability analysis put... and a faster decline in the primary surplus than in the baseline scenario, the eurozone would need

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  10. From Berlin to Brexit
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    Agora

    in appealing to people’s emotions than Remain, which struggled between highlighting the potential... about what consequences it could have. He put his attempt to establish control over his party ahead... the decades. It was, as Jeremy Cliffe put it in his Bagehot column in The Economist, “easily one of the most

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