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Greek coalition sets out plans for public sector, wages and pensions
PoliticsGreek PoliticsWhile the focus has been on the Greek government’s negotiations with eurozone officials over a possible new debt deal, the SYRIZA-Independent Greeks coalition has been preparing its policies... by the troika. Civil servants A lot has been made of the government’s plans to rehire some 3, 500 civil
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Newsletter 24 - 24/04/2015
payments of 400 million during May. In addition, the state has to roll over 1.4 billion of 6-month T-Bills... these holdings. Thus, the international investor take up has to be rolled over by Greek investors... in March. In comments that demonstrate that the state has almost run out of cash, in an interview
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Opposition parties on hold, pending outcome of coalition talks with creditors
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PoliticsGreek Politicsof negotiations will play a crucial role in developments at New Democracy and PASOK. New Democracy has... down. In fact, he recently gave his first televised interview since the vote and emphasised that he has..., preparations are underway for a change of leadership. The party has decided to hold the vote to elect
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Growing scepticism of SYRIZA strategy but opposition parties fail to profit
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe Greek public’s increasing scepticism about the government’s negotiating strategy has been... for the tactics followed by the government has declined sharply since the beginning of February. According.... However, it is worth noting that this apparent mistrust of the government’s strategy has not yet had
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Why doesn't Tsipras just cut defence spending?
Agorathink – spending on Greece’s army, navy and air force has already been reduced since the crisis...’s defence spending is on personnel costs but this has also fallen during recent years. Before... to the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), this has now dropped closer to 50 percent
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Newsletter 35 - 17/07/2015
the financing involved in the new programme. Given the tight liquidity conditions, the state has delayed... scene over the next few weeks. Tsipras has repeatedly indicated that he will first complete... for ratification and then call snap polls. Tsipras has stated he believes that the threat of Grexit
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Portuguese election: Where those who lost may decide
Agorato be answered. How was it possible? The pro-austerity coalition PSD-CDS has won 104 out of 230 seats... has gradually started to recover (0.9 percent growth in 2014, after three years of recession..., comparing to the same month of last year, but the employed population has only increased by 5,000
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Whither New Democracy?
Agora: This is more or less the sum total of what the New Democracy leadership race has produced so far..., what we see underneath is a party that has failed to understand why it failed miserably... of the four hopefuls, has set off around Greece in a camper van. It’s not so much the kind of battle
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Latest EU plan to tackle refugee crises poses new, bigger challenges for Tsipras
PoliticsForeign PolicyGreece has agreed to provide the facilities needed to host 50,000 refugees while they wait... focus has been on the humanitarian side and the basic processing of those who arrive on Greek shores... crisis has mostly featured low down the political agenda. Most voters are aware that the migrants
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Greece's 2016 diplomatic agenda begins with talks on Cyprus and name issue
PoliticsForeign Policy. Athens insists that it guarantees are an antiquated concept and has called for them to be dropped... is really known publicly with regards to the chapter on security and guarantees as this issue has not yet..., the demilitarisation of the island seems not to be a taboo issue any more but Turkey has not yet had its final say
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