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Tsipras claims he is in no hurry to call elections after bailout exit
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Alexis Tsipras indicated on Friday that he is not considering the possibility of calling snap elections later this year despite persistent speculation about the subject. Tsipras travelled to Thessaloniki to meet local mayor Yiannis Boutar...
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Tsipras and Kammenos ready to call time on coalition after agreeing Friday meeting
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAlexis Tsipras and Panos Kammenos are due to meet on Friday to hammer out the details of the official separation between SYRIZA and Independent Greeks (ANEL), paving the way for the prime minister to continue as the head of a minority government. The tw...
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ND wrong-foots SYRIZA with call to lift expat vote restrictions
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe expat vote has become the latest pretext for a flare-up between the New Democracy government and opposition SYRIZA, as a new bill proposes to open up remote voting to the Greek diaspora. On Monday, Interior Minister Makis Voridis tabled a bill in Pa...
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Govt responds to report on deadly incident with tougher policing measures, as critics call for rethink
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe official report into an incident in which police fired shots at a fleeing car, killing one occupant and injuring another following a high-speed chase, has prompted the government to announce a series of tough new policing measures. Following several...
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Opposition sees ND’s call for broader subsidy inquiry as attempt to muddy waters
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe government caught its opponents by surprise on Monday when it announced that it will propose a broad parliamentary investigation into the alleged misuse of agricultural subsidies dating back to 1998 – a move that the opposition parties see as an att...
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Mitsotakis renews call for Turkey to scrap "casus belli" - opposition unimpressed
PoliticsGreek PoliticsKyriakos Mitsotakis returned from his appearance at the United Nations General Assembly last week feeling that he had burnished Greece's diplomatic contacts with a range of countries and had stated the country's case clearly vis a vis its ongoing disput...
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PASOK's future hangs in balance as Greece prepares for EU vote
PoliticsGreek Politics, KKE 4.8, IndGrks 3.3, DIMAR 1.8, undecided 12.4 — MacroPolis (@MacroPolis_gr) May 23, 2014 GPO poll... a wider coalition. Another option for Venizelos is to call an extraordinary party congress later
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Alpha Bank reports H1 profits of 267.4 mln on one-off item
EconomyBankingthe conference call, the management noted that the static balance sheet of 2013 will be used... restructuring plan ending by 2018, which involve: NIM above 3.3 percent (2.7 percent in Q2), cost to income
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Piraeus Bank brings Q1 2015 losses down to 69 mln
EconomyBankingNPL eased to 41.3 percent. NPLs During the conference call, Piraeus management noted that the NPL... percent) while savings showed a modest drop by 3.3 percent. As a result, loan to deposit (LTD) ratio
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Newsletter 33 - 03/07/2015
The drop in the turnover of Greece’s retail trade index fell by the faster rate of 3.3 percent in April... developments. They have to digest the call for a referendum on Sunday 5 July, after waking up on Monday... is unlikely to en masse favour being part of a national emergency government. The other possibility
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