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Greece steps up efforts for early bailout exit but lenders play it coy
PoliticsGreek Politicsbailout programme at the end of the year but, as Greek officials admitted, all the options are still open. A Greek delegation led by Finance Minister Gikas Hardouvelis met with International Monetary Fund...) in order to reduce its debt and the deficit targets it has to meet in the coming years. It is estimated
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Newsletter 4 - 21/11/2014
taken by the Finance Ministry, which anticipates that the fiscal targets next year will be met... correct any deviations that may arise. All the president’s men Scenarios leave PM short of votes needed... not to support any candidate put forward by the government, in order to bring about national polls
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Newsletter 16 - 20/02/2015
all their tax obligations to that point. However, this is a moral hazard as it sends a clearly negative message to all those taxpayers who were consistent in their tax obligations so far. Moreover... abide by the November 2012 decision which promised debt relief to the previous government if it met
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Search for solutions, not scapegoats in EU's refugee crisis
Agoraon, the picture is very different: all around Greece countries are building fences to keep migrants out... is simply performing search and rescue operations. On Samos, I met Captain Antonis Karakontis, who... is going to get any respite, which would give it time to get its house in order. Greece has
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Newsletter 67 - 18/03/2016
for supplementary pensions by 0.5-1 percentage points, which would still entail pension cuts in order... to a day or so of political grandstanding by Kammenos, who met with Tsipras and his right-hand man... by Mouzalas, who after all is not a politician, Mitsotakis and Kammenos attempted to bolster their cases
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What Dijsselbloem didn't say
Agoraand responsibility and an effort from all sides.” Dijsselbloem later expressed regret that his original.... They put their public finances in order, they embarked on structural reforms and endured falls... were met and the countries exited the bailouts. Greece is yet to reach this point but each step
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Greece agrees package of measures with IMF, eurozone to seal review
EconomyProgrammepercent of GDP in 2019 to be met. Specifically, the tax credit is due to be reduced by 650 euros for all... and the second target are currently under discussion. Fiscal gap 2018 In order to cover the 0.3 percent of GDP... difference for all current main pensions, with the resulting drop in an individual pension limited to 22
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Will centre-left let go of past to grasp change?
Agoraby technical problems, which meant the original date for the vote could not be met, arguments over whether... questions from a panel of journalists in a random order was surely too much for anyone but the most... is to find a space between Tsipras, who is trying to be all things to all men, and New Democracy, led
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The tie that binds
Agora.) The frivolity of it all was a poke in the eye for anyone who has suffered over the last eight years... situation and the lenders’ mindset, which was fully focused on fiscal targets being met so that debt... is designed to buy all sides some breathing space and is in keeping with the piecemeal way in which
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Parties take another look at granting vote to Greek expats
Society-district, which had historically met with strong internal opposition within all governing parties... permitted in person, so in order to vote an expat would have to return to their home voting district... remotely, either at embassies and consulates in their country of residence or by postal ballot. All
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