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SYRIZA readies itself for election battle, Mitsotakis pledges pension overhaul
PoliticsGreek Politicsreshuffle that has been expected over the last couple of weeks. In the meantime, New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis has been fleshing out his policies as Greece’s parties gear up for what... that Greeks will go the polls next May. It has been reported that Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras wants
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Mitsotakis prepares to unveil economic plans, leave imprint ahead of elections
PoliticsGreek PoliticsMitsotakis has claimed that he will try to negotiate lower primary surplus targets with Greece’s lenders... interviews, the opposition leader has said that he would like to create a three-pillar system... and the involvement of the private sector. The coalition has responded to this proposal by claiming
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Newsletter 176 -28/09/2018
that the discussion with the institutions over next year’s reduction to pension spending has not been..., especially as Greek bond yields are higher than the government would like. It has been suggested... future. His threat last week to walk out on the coalition if Greek Parliament has to ratify
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Newsletter 179 -19/10/2018
to maintain unity Alexis Tsipras has to guide his government through another storm after the resignation... part in the ballot as things stand. However, even if Kotzias has no intention of leading a newly... political future. By leaving the government now, he has a chance to distance himself from the deal
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Greece's never-ending election campaign
Agorathe prolonged pre-election period Greece has entered is damaging the country. There is nothing wrong... as bribes in connection to a 2003 defence deal. Although he has not yet been convicted, the government has used Papantoniou’s case to bring back into the public debate the “old vs new” divide
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Parties locked in tug of war over troubled universities
SocietyMinister Kostas Gavroglou has accused Mitsotakis of being driven by an “extreme neoliberal fixation” whose ultimate aim is to abolish free state education. Mitsotakis has pledged to bring a comprehensive...-reform Pledging to scrap a predecessor’s education policy has become a recurring motif in Greek
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Newsletter 186 -07/12/2018
weeks with the post-programme reforms it has promised. With the pension issue now settled... law has been submitted under the emergency procedure, which means that it should be voted on within... as the Eurogroup has to decide before the end of February whether the reform process is on track
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Ball in Greece's court after Skopje completes approval of name deal
Foreign PolicyGreek Politicsthe latter will officially announce that it has successfully completed its obligations deriving from... as his government is officially informed by Skopje that it has concluded its domestic process, he... Accession Protocol could last 5-6 days, respectively. It has been suggested that NATO is expecting
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Newsletter 192 -01/02/2019
at. Specifically, the comparison was made with Portugal, which has a yield that is eight times lower...-looking leader, much of his party sees things differently and has not changed much from its old ways..., there has been some speculation that the SYRIZA leader might consider more seriously than before the goal
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Newsletter 198 -15/03/2019
Debt Management Agency (PDMA) has provided details of the country’s second bond issuance of the year... 5-year issue roughly a month ago. The PDMA notes that the new 5-year has performed well during its first month of trading and since issuance the yield has dropped by nearly 1 percentage point, 80
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