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New Democracy leadership headed for showdown with right wing over migrant labour bill
PoliticsGreek Politicson migration touted by the conservative party and warn that it will attract more economic migrants. One of the loudest objections came from Antonis Samaras who spoke on Friday to warn that the measure
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Greece goes operational amid growing concern about Iran war blowback
PoliticsGreek Politicsseekers, and officials warn that broader regional instability could eventually generate new flows... is also becoming clearer — and more troubling. Analysts warn that the primary transmission channel
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Athens calibrates domestic and diplomatic response to Iran war as tension with Turkey resurfaces
PoliticsGreek Politicspreparing for a conflict that senior officials now warn may last far longer than initially hoped... The fourth pillar - economic planning - is becoming increasingly urgent. Analysts warn that the main
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Fear and loathing in Athens: an ex-minister's take on troika reviews
PoliticsGreek Politicsscheme, which Manitakis wanted to be based on an assessment of public sector staff, and making in June... or implement measures at the last minute to obtain its lenders’ approval and further funding. Now, ex... of further bailout funding. “That’s when I understood that the troika had taken a tougher line
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Another euro stitch unpicked
Agoraan increasing sense that either they do not belong or they are not wanted. Nick Malkoutzis..., the decision to pull funding has to be a political one, so even in the extreme case where... deal with the eurozone, the government had also been hoping that it could cover its funding gap
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In the case of Greek debt, it's the "how" that's missing
Agoradescribed following the June 15 Eurogroup - the fact that time was pressing and nobody wanted Greece to encounter a funding crisis, facing a default on the ECB, led the Fund to dust off a legacy... for further discussion before it needs to contribute any funding. In a regular briefing on Thursday
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SYRIZA's only chance
Agoraabout recently - because they wanted to protect their friends, oligarchs (and others) that Alexis..., to investigate party and media funding and to tackle corruption in the dealings between the public
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The Greeks deserved better than this
Agoraminister was free to pick any measures he wanted, just as long as they were the lenders’ ones... not been willing to “play by the rules” or to make sacrifices in return for further bailout funding
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Newsletter 37 - 31/07/2015
to the process is that Tsipras managed to hold off an attack from SYRIZA’s left wing, which wanted... on the identification of Greece’s funding needs by international creditors for the next three years. Moreover
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Creditors' deal comes up short on debt relief for Tsipras
PoliticsGreek Politicsand will also be subject to conditionality, which is not what the government would have wanted... a significant amount of funding (10.3 billion euros), which was close to the maximum of 11 billion
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