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Pressure mounts on coalition to complete fourth review prior actions
PoliticsGreek Politicsreview, or at least the vast majority of them. Progress on this front has been slow over the last... to be launched by the end of May, according to the bill. Energy Minister Giorgos Stathakis has..., the Deputy Minister to the Prime Minister, has sent an e-mail to all the ministers concerned in carrying
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Coalition's feud with shipowner shows no sign of de-escalation
PoliticsGreek PoliticsTa Nea and To Vima into “rubbish dumps,” adding to the tension between the two sides, which has been..., lies and orders of a businessman who has been charged with drug dealing,” the statement added. One... it clear that he has not yet been convicted. However, the response is not designed to defuse the situation
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Newsletter 164 -01/06/2018
premier Zoran Zaev indicated on Wednesday that Skopje believes it has an “agreement in principle” with Athens but Tsipras’s office insisted that no deal has been reached yet. The statement came after New... a debt restructuring package the eurozone lenders will put together will be, since the Fund has been one
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Agoraat manageable levels. This also has a positive effect on the need for large primary surpluses to keep... importantly, they will also be tied to the fiscal path. Greece has committed to lowering pension... and the IMF has just over 10 billion euros of loans due to be paid by Greece over the next six years
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Newsletter 169 -06/07/2018
Democracy would prefer elections to take place sooner, before Tsipras has time to draw attention... row this week. The Frenchman said that although Athens has to abide by its commitments, those... around mid-October. The government has made no secret of its desire to scrap the pension cuts in 2019
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Newsletter 171 -20/07/2018
to the spending reductions being revoked, the government may Opposition leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis has... on Sunday, May 26. However, there has been no clear indication from the lenders’ side... of GDP reduction in pension expenditure has to go ahead. The other factor that is likely to impact
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Mitsotakis steps up pressure on coalition over wildfire deaths
PoliticsGreek PoliticsSYRIZA appointees). The government has so far fended off calls for ministers or public officials to step down. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is expected to make changes, though, once the dust has... given by officials. New Democracy has been trying to drive home the message that the government has
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Tsipras conducts varied reshuffle in further bid to revitalise coalition
PoliticsGreek Politics. The justice portfolio is a significant one for the coalition as it has come under considerable criticism... that it has tried to interfere in the judicial process. At 42, Kalogirou is one of the younger faces in the new cabinet as has worked in the past as a legal adviser to Digital Policy Minister Nikos
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Parties take another look at granting vote to Greek expats
SocietyThe Greek government has started consultation on changing voting procedures to enable Greeks abroad... residence. In a country which has experienced several waves of emigration over the two centuries of its existence as a modern state, the principle of full citizen rights for Greeks abroad has been espoused
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Mitsotakis plans cuts to pension contributions, aims to add private element to system
PoliticsGreek PoliticsNew Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis has set out some of the policies he plans to unveil... sketched out the plans he has for Greece’s pension system. He had flagged up in a recent interview his... the pension system through the back door. This has often proved a politically sensitive issue
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