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Tsipras steps in amid concern deal with lenders slipping away
PoliticsGreek Politics. The frequency of contact between the two leaders has intensified in the past few weeks – an indication... by the institutions than Finance Ministry general secretary for fiscal policy Nikos Theocharakis, who has played... 11. The state’s increasingly desperate liquidity position means that Greece has little wiggle room
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Greek coalition braces for internal debate over agreement with lenders
PoliticsGreek Politicsislands. The coalition partner has indicated it would consider such a measure a possible reason.... Mitropoulos in particular has provided almost a daily running commentary on the government’s negotiations via... will point to the fact that the government has avoided scrapping the benefit for low-income pensioners (EKAS
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Coalition in last-minute legislative rush, extends helping hand to MPs
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat the coalition has chosen to delay the submission of the draft legislation in order to not heap.... The government has adopted this tactic in the past, preferring not to put SYRIZA and Independent Greeks (ANEL... affected by the measure. They will each receive a one-off payment of between 500 and 2,100 euros
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Tsipras encounters obstacle in efforts to secure church deal
PoliticsGreek Politicsof the head of the Church of Greece, who reportedly has a good relationship with Tsipras. It also came... and remove the priests from the payroll, a move which it has the authority to carry out. This may... in a very difficult position within the church and Tsipras in danger of losing someone he has
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ND targets NGOs in latest bid to bring migration under control
PoliticsGreek Politicsas well, but has not provided tangible evidence to back up the theory. During Tuesday’s debate... of provocation has been forthcoming. Petsas said the protests, which led to police on Lesvos using tear gas... proposal to install a floating barrier in the Aegean sea as a pilot measure aimed at deterring human
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Handling of energy crisis under fire as gas interruption tests supply security
PoliticsGreek Politicsvouchers from 45 to 80 euros. The latest measure, which the government claims will benefit up to 3 million... minister reiterated his argument that the energy crisis is a global phenomenon to which Greece has been.... The opposition counters that that inflation has exposed structural problems with the Greek markets which
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Mitsotakis dangles carrot of more tax cuts as SYRIZA heads for leadership vote
PoliticsGreek Politicsin 2026 and 2027. His government has already set out the tax cuts for next year. They are dominated by the scrapping of the trade tax for the self-employed and freelancers, an unpopular measure only introduced by the government last year. Nevertheless, in the current climate, which has been
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Taking a macro snapshot
Agora(in Greece) you’re Olli Rehn”, said to me the other day someone whose opinion I regard highly and got me... in nearby Cyprus have impacted on business and consumer confidence, and more precisely how this has in turn affected demand across the manufacturing economy." Consumer confidence has improved from
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DIMAR faces struggle to survive in 2014, a year of elections
PoliticsGreek Politics://www.macropolis.gr/?i=portal.en.politics.683). Kouvelis has so far rejected the second option, preferring...The New Year has at least two elections in store (local and European) for Greece, while... government in June 2013 over the closure of public broadcaster ERT. Since then, DIMAR has been
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Greek DSA: Don't Say Anything about the debt
Agorafully owned by the IMF, has not been formally touched since the last review in June 2014, where in Annex I there is an extensive analysis of the country’s debt profile based on the assumptions of the review that was completed around this time last year and the last disbursements that Greece has
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