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Banks saw asset quality and liquidity trends improve in Q4 but process interrupted in 2017
AgoraGreek banks concluded the release of their fourth quarter (Q4) results last week, which showed an improved financial and asset quality performance overall. Almost all the core banks recorded a positive bottom-line result for Q4 and turned profitable for...
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Newsletter 135 - 13/10/2017
voted against the bill and two others abstained. Only one ANEL MP, from a total of nine, backed... but has rekindled the discussion about the incompatibility between SYRIZA and ANEL. For now... that it started paying 183,430 pensions this year, totalling 1.4 billion euros. An expedited payment was made
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SYRIZA and ND at odds over proposals for changing constitution
PoliticsGreek Politics. As such, SYRIZA will need at least the support of its coalition partner, Independent Greeks (ANEL), totalling 152 MPs and several opposition parties, such as PASOK (20 MPs), To Potami (6 MPs... is simply for us to sign off on the SYRIZA-ANEL obsessions,” he said. In the interview, Theodorakis also
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Scandal allegations playing growing role in path towards elections
PoliticsGreek PoliticsKitsakis, claimed recently that five ministers in the SYRIZA-ANEL coalition had been aware... on the part of Defence Minister and ANEL leader Panos Kammenos, claiming that he introduced... regarding an alleged scandal at state-owned gas transmission operator DEPA and unpaid bills totalling
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Coalition bolsters unity in face of opposition pressure
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGreeks (ANEL) appear to have made the coalition members even more determined to stick together... took their decision after ANEL indicated it would not back two pieces of draft legislation. One... and to avoid fines from Brussels. However, New Democracy and ANEL were among those who expressed concern
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SYRIZA confident of survival beyond name deal, confidence vote
PoliticsGreek Politics(ANEL), departs the government as the opposition parties do not have enough support to win... during the gathering was what would happen after the departure of ANEL, which is thought to be just... the ratification of the Prespes Agreement as early as this Friday and ANEL leader Panos Kammenos has said he
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It remains a mystery
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AgoraThe Wall Street Journal leaked this week the minutes of an International Monetary Fund board meeting in May, 2010, just a few days before Greece signed its first bailout. The extracts reveal... a way out via the EU-IMF program and the ECB had engaged in its Securities Markets Program (SMP
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Lavrov visit yields little for Athens, which denies Iranian bank veto
PoliticsForeign Policyafter the publication of a story this week in the Wall Street Journal according to which Greece... commenting on Iran’s Mehan Air, which the EU seems willing to let fly - said: “We remain engaged with our
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Cat and mouse: Greece and Schaeuble
Agora, when the German minister expanded on his previous thoughts in an interview with the Wall Street Journal... trying to warn of the dangers for Greece of failing to keep the IMF engaged? His comments were so
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Tsipras and Kammenos ready to call time on coalition after agreeing Friday meeting
PoliticsGreek Politicsof the official separation between SYRIZA and Independent Greeks (ANEL), paving the way for the prime minister... that the four-year alliance between SYRIZA and ANEL was due to come to a messy and acrimonious end. Tsipras... divorce so that SYRIZA and ANEL do not emerge scathed from their alliance as the next national elections
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