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Eurogroup marks end of cycle and squaring of circle for Greece
AgoraThursday’s Eurogroup will be the one to confirm the debt relief deal, the decisive Eurogroup meetings... unused ESM funds from the current programme. The IMF is one of the primary official creditors between... privatisations (expected at 2 billion in 2018 and over 1 billion in 2019) set the current cash buffer plan at 18
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Coalition sees key targets met in debt deal but opposition has holes to pick
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat the coalition met one of its key targets, which has not always been the case during its negotiations... The future fiscal targets are likely to be one of the issues highlighted most by New Democracy, which... set over the last three years. The conservatives argue that this has led to huge pressure
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Kammenos claims approval of name deal a make-or-break moment for coalition
PoliticsGreek PoliticsDemocracy on the spot, rather than his coalition partner SYRIZA. One of the interpretations... the agreement (one of the reasons that he chose to pull out of KINAL was that the grouping’s leader... separation, with Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras likely to set a date for snap elections. It has been
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New Democracy gains MP as new effort to launch nationalist party announced
PoliticsGreek Politicswith the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) over the settlement of the name issue. One... to defend the role of the church and feel there should be greater law and order. The agenda set out..., was involved in one of the failed nationalist efforts when he launched the National Unity party in 2016
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Government indicates readiness to play waiting game on pension cuts
PoliticsGreek PoliticsLiakos stood out. In an interview with To Vima, Liakos – one of Alexis Tsipras’s key advisers – said... to be countered by one-off benefits from the fiscal overperformance so that retirees do not feel... at the end of the year to announce that the pension reductions have been set aside and that it can
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Athens resumes contact with Ankara as interest in FYROM referendum grows
PoliticsForeign Policydrilling in Cyprus’s Exclusive Economic Zone. Turkey has said it is also set to begin its own drilling... to be forced to accept a compromise. No one believed him, except, in retrospect, Mr Mitsotakis,” Kotzias... visit to Skopje is the one German Chancellor Angela Merkel is due to make on Saturday. Merkel
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PDMA readies bond schedule for 2019, with eye on prepayment of IMF loans
Economypercent. This type of liability management is one of the purposes of the cash buffer created... years, the IMF is one of Greece’s most substantial creditors. Obligations to the Fund total 7... buffer, which carries the very low interest rate set by the ESM. According to Greek officials, although
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Eurogroup suggests there is scope for pension cuts to be called off
EconomyProgrammereaching a compromise with the lenders over the issue, which is one of the top items on the domestic... was set,” added Centeno in reference to Athens agreeing to reduce pension spending by 1 percent of GDP... the programme is one that will be debated.” His suggestion that the pension cuts were “contingent
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Greece 57th in WEF's Global Competitiveness Index based on new methodology
EconomyFeaturesshows that the country dropped by four places in 2018 compared to a drop of one place in 2017. Greece came in one level below the Phillipines at 56 and India at 58. The top spot in the rankings went... that Greece did worst out of the set of rankings when it came to its financial system, landing
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Tsipras faces challenges ahead on multiple foreign policy fronts
PoliticsForeign PolicyMediterranean". The Cyprus issue is also one of the many challenges ahead for the prime minister... was aimed at his Minister, as one of the diplomats was a close aide to Kotzias. Regarding relations... will probably set it aside knowing that this may cause more or less the same reactions with the Prespes
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