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Tsipras plays to domestic gallery over IMF dispute
PoliticsGreek Politicsis undesirable. However, the rhetoric against the IMF did not get more aggressive than this, suggesting that the purpose of Monday evening’s exercise was to rally SYRIZA lawmakers rather than launch a concerted... painful and unfair than those that would have been adopted by a New Democracy government. At no point
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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]")
Agoraor even preliminary fiscal results than the European lenders. This means that the fund, for instance... in the third bailout. Also, the IMF is more inclined than the European lenders to question the quality... uncomfortable) measures to reach this target but the adjustment needed would be smaller than the one that has
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Newsletter 70 - 15/04/2016
are that the Greek government is keen to find a solution and to close the review as soon as possible. Rather than... be less stringent than if the IMF is involved. Also, the tabling of the legislation is not quite... to full-time employment, more than 38 percent to part-time and the remaining 16 percent to shift work
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Discontent in SYRIZA simmers as Tsipras seeks to conclude talks with creditors
PoliticsGreek Politicsas SYRIZA’s own programme rather than something that is being imposed by Greece’s creditors. One more... than the two previous loan agreements but argue that the policies are still far detached from... the internal or external troika rather than humiliatingly at the hands of [Greek] society itself
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Greece tops EU tables for lawyers but also pending administrative court cases
Societymore cases than were submitted. When the cases are broken down into different categories, litigious.... General government total expenditure on law courts was lower in Greece than among most western... for this. The foreign business perception of the Greece’s judicial independence was also lower than
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Current account deficit narrows by 45 pct to 804.3 mln in Feb
EconomyMacroeconomy) more than offsetting a worsening in the services surplus by 226 million. The breakdown showed... that of exports. The decline in the services’ surplus by more than 59 percent mostly reflects a nosedive... than offsetting a reduction in the services’ surplus by 443 million. Imports of goods dropped 10.9
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Bailout talks inch forward as Juncker comments complicate matters
PoliticsGreek Politicsexpects the surplus to be higher than the IMF’s projections, thereby strengthening the Greek... for 2015, which is substantially better than the 0.6 percent primary deficit that the IMF expects... now rather than when targets are missed), although he indicated the Commission would be willing
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The diversions of the past
Agoracaused deaths in Greece recently rather than terrorism that identifies itself with Marxist, or other..., such as Revolutionary Struggle, have not killed anyone by luck rather than design in recent attacks... pronounced way than the divisive “theory of the two extremes” followed by his predecessor Antonis
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EC expects milder recession of 0.3 pct in 2016, sees debt to GDP at 178.8 pct in 2017
Economy. EC noted that the slower than initially anticipated recession this year is largely due to the more... of the first programme review. Potential upside risks include a faster than expected improvement... programme, slowdown in the global trade as well as a higher than expected negative impact of the refugee
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Newsletter 72 - 06/05/2016
on April 19, is due to be discussed in plenary over the weekend and voted on Sunday night, earlier than... and responsive than central governments, which face bureaucratic hurdles and are often hampered by political... of hatred” that included comments about sending refugees to nearby Auschwitz. Rather than helping refugees
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