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Greek foreign minister cautious on EU veto and NATO patrols
PoliticsForeign Policytried to distance himself from the leaks from the prime minister’s office over the last few day... to the relocation programme. Even before Kotzias’s interview on Tuesday night, senior diplomatic sources... and the Prime Minister’s office have a different line on this issue and on a number of ideas that have
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Locating Europe's pulse in the refugee crisis
Agorais experiencing. The catalyst for this quandary over the EU’s raison d’etre has been the arrival of hundreds of thousands of refugees on Europe’s shores since last year. Europe’s response has often seemed... to appreciate Europe’s potential, it can be a rewarding effort. An international forum held in Barcelona
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Marinopoulos travails point to wider difficulties for supermarket sector
EconomyFeaturesIt’s been a dramatic few days for the Marinopoulos, Greece’s biggest supermarket chain. The company... as no surprise to anyone who has visited the chain’s stores in the last few months. Disputes with unpaid suppliers have meant that the supermarket’s shelves were often eerily empty. Products were pushed
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Government distances itself from ELSTAT case as European Commission wades in
PoliticsGreek Politics, over Greece’s 2009 deficit figure. The coalition sought to disassociate itself from the matter after... of Greece’s fiscal data during its time under the bailout programmes. “For the Commission and Eurostat... the accuracy of the figures on which Greece’s bailout was formed, Brussels also tried to prod
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How the pension fund that invested heavily in Attica Bank lost half its reserves
Agoraan overhaul of the bank’s corporate governance framework. The central bank also lifted the previous... to the committee’s chairman on September 22 the report it prepared with the help of the European Central Bank’s Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM) on Attica Bank’s lending activities in recent years. TSMEDE
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Cat and mouse: Greece and Schaeuble
Agorathat Jerry finds to set Tom up. But the real punchline, and the most laughter, is generated by Tom’s inexplicable ability to fall for Jerry’s stunts all the time. In the game of cat and mouse between Greece.... However, Schaeuble’s comments were vague and could be interpreted a number of ways. Was he trying
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Newsletter 110 - 10/03/2017
on the medium-term debt relief that is the Greek prime minister’s other carrot in the negotiations. The government’s slim parliamentary majority and SYRIZA’s poor opinion poll ratings mean that Tsipras... on Monday suggested that New Democracy’s lead over SYRIZA stands at 14 percentage points: 33 percent
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The implications of Erdogan's referendum victory
Agora. While the Yes win possibly removes some short-term uncertainties, it will mainly exacerbate Turkey’s... structural reforms over the next 12-18 months. Yet after today’s narrow outcome, Erdogan will likely..., was an immediate test for the government’s willingness to re-focus on national reconciliation and the faltering
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Bond issue mulled amid pressure from judiciary clash, Varoufakis claims
PoliticsGreek Politicsas the government comes under more pressure due to its clash with the country’s judiciary and revelations from former ministers. Reports suggest that Athens believes that last week’s announcements from the International Monetary Fund and the lack of an upgrade from Standard & Poor’s were not enough to prevent
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Georgiou conviction may test relationship with lenders
PoliticsGreek Politics’s revised 2009 deficit data to Eurostsat in November 2010. The other two charges related to failing..., but not his salary, so he would not lose his right to claim a pension from the IMF. Georgiou’s lawyer, Giorgos Stefanakis, suggested that the court’s verdict was a positive development for his client, who
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