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  1. Samaras shoots, Samaras scores!
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    that the sum can be greater than the parts. For Greece, which has one of the poorest and most corrupt... is also a powerful one. In a country of oligarchs, vested interests and slow change those who buck... of renewal. Greece’s squad has not been free of the division that riddles the domestic game, with one

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  2. NPLs: The Achilles heel of the Greek banking system

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    at 33.1 percent (from 25.5 percent in 2012). Since both figures are different by more than one... fell to 16 percent in 2013 (from 18 percent in 2012). The absolute figure is equal to just one third... percent is depicted in one of the many busy tables of the report. The IMF also stressed that NPLs net

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  3. The institutional weakness poisoning Greek politics

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    will tell if Karatzaferis is one of them) will be brought to justice, they also highlight... an offshore firm that appeared on his records one year and not the next. Also, nobody thought... (one with a swimming pool), three massive plots of land and an underground garage. His wife owned

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  4. First vote for president leaves coalition with uphill task to avoid snap elections
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    , which was one vote less than the coalition's most conservative estimates. Another 135 voted "present" and five were absent. The result was a troubling but not catastrophic one for the government.... One was a SYRIZA lawmaker but the other four were independents. One of those four, Giorgos

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  5. Coalition edges towards 180 votes for president but close to exhausting resources
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    if they amount to more than one or two. Almost all of these lawmakers would be going from clearly being... the government. One of the party’s MPs, Niki Founta, quit just before the vote, leaving DIMAR with nine lawmakers. Founta, however, only voted “present” during Tuesday’s ballot. She was one of three DIMAR

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  6. Greece: How events could unfold over the next few weeks
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    few weeks, based on two broad potential outcomes: One foresees an agreement on May 11 or at a subsequent emergency Eurogroup meeting (the next one scheduled is June 18) and the other that the various... in pending bailout funding, this could trigger one of several developments. All of these events

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  7. Newsletter 25 - 08/05/2015

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    , the Greek state concluded the first two of its May debt servicing payments. One was an interest.... The next key debt obligation involves a payment of around 750 million to the IMF on May 12, one day..., revenues outperformed their target by 488 million euros, mainly reflecting some one-off payments

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  8. Newsletter 34 - 10/07/2015

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    cards. Their only option was to visit one of the 1,000 bank branches that opened as of July 1 to serve pensioners with deposit books only. Initially, a one-off withdrawal limit of 120 euros applied... in line calmly is an incredible sight. The one thing that is immediately noticeable is the silence. Few

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  9. Newsletter 39 - 21/08/2015

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    one for Tsipras, who got his retaliation in first on Thursday, when he accused rebels of undermining... from the current government, President Pavlopoulos will appoint the head of one of Greece’s three... head the government that will have to tackle any problems caused by the implementation lag. The one

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  10. Newsletter 54 - 04/12/2015

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    stems from 1.87 billion in uncollected SMP and ANFA income, while the reported figure includes a one-off... enough to stop migrants, rather than refugees, from travelling to other countries. One of the reasons... from an easy one. Greece returned 39 people to Pakistani but authorities in Islamabad rejected 26

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