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How Samaras backed himself and Greece into a corner over bailout exit
AgoraThe line coming out of Prime Minister Antonis Samaras’s office at the end of May was that New... less than SYRIZA. Together with PASOK, Samaras’s party had a bigger share of the vote than... in May. The unravelling began on June 9 with the cabinet reshuffle. Samaras’s decision to pack
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Tsipras remains sketchy on coalition options, negotiating positions
PoliticsGreek PoliticsSYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras gave on Monday his first televised interview since his party’s victory... SYRIZA’s intentions were regarding who it could govern with if there are early elections in March... week, SYRIZA’s development spokesman Giorgos Stathakis indicated that the leftists might be prepared
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Samaras strays out of line in search for new normal
Agora. Intentionally or not, it aligns Greece’s prime minister with all the cranks in Europe and Greece’s... dimension to consider. Linking Greece’s “normality” only to the performance of its economy ignores a whole raft of other aspects that define a country’s wellbeing If Greece’s prime minister wants
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As negotiations start, Greek coalition draws confidence from public opinion
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe Greek government goes into Wednesday night’s crucial, but not definitive, Eurogroup meeting... governments, even if that means mounting speculation about the country’s future in the eurozone. The three... uncertainty, was a cause for great concern given the fragile state of Greece’s banking system. However
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Eurogroup leaves Tsipras with difficult but not impossible deal to sell at home
PoliticsGreek PoliticsFinance Minister Yanis Varoufakis walked away from Friday’s Eurogroup with the promise of a four-month extension of Greece’s loan agreement, which has some concessions for the coalition but overall... from the Left Platform, to accept. It appears to put a halt to a number of the party’s pre-election
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As reform talks continue in Brussels, Tsipras gauges reaction at home
PoliticsGreek Politicsto lenders and the course of negotiations in Brussels. As Tsipras took part in a meeting of SYRIZA’s.... A University of Macedonia poll published by Sunday’s Kathimerini showed the percentage of respondents... creditors, he would choose the latter. Tsipras informed Merkel and other leaders that servicing Greece’s
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Parliament's bailout probe has potential to be politically toxic
PoliticsGreek Politics2010, when the then Socialist government signed Greece’s first loan deal, to the present day... be an opportunity for the coalition to dump blame for the country’s current problems at PASOK’s doorstep...-prime minister was Tsipras’s first choice for president. Instead, the leftist leader chose Prokopis
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Tsipras steps in amid concern deal with lenders slipping away
PoliticsGreek Politicsof Tsipras’s efforts to keep the negotiations on track after the lack of progress in tying up... that would secure further bailout funding and solve the government’s growing liquidity problem might... of eurozone finance ministers and prepare the government’s strategy for the talks ahead. The new round
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Eurogroup leaves Greece in limbo, with liquidity drying up
PoliticsGreek PoliticsMonday’s Eurogroup produced a lukewarm statement on the state of Greece’s negotiations with its... Monday’s meeting was to ensure that the ECB would not apply a larger haircut to the collateral put up... council meeting on Tuesday. Instead, the Dutch finance minister emphasised the ECB’s independence
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Will SYRIZA accept the proposal from Greece's lenders?
AgoraAs Greece’s lenders prepare to present Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras with their final proposal... are not yet known. These two factors (SYRIZA’s unpredictability and the absence of an actual agreement... while slashing spending on pensions. Rarely has a meeting of SYRIZA’s central committee drawn
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