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IMF's Article IV conclusion outlines progress and remaining risks on road to recovery
EconomyProgrammegross financing needs in the medium term, which should be reflected in Greece’s prospects of regaining..., “it should now consolidate and extend its success by addressing, with determination, its remaining
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Puzzling reaction to army reservists' call for government to resign
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAn unusual announcement by a little known army reservists’ group calling for the government to resign prompted an emergency late night meeting of top ministry and judicial officials on Wednesday. There was surprise that the government gave such attentio...
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New Democracy hopes to celebrate 40th anniversary with rallying call
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe 40th anniversary of New Democracy’s founding is approaching and the party’s leadership is hoping it can use the moment as a rallying point for the increasingly despondent conservatives. New Democracy has planned two events to mark the occasion: One ...
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Close call on IMF payment puts Tsipras under more pressure at home, abroad
PoliticsGreek PoliticsReports over the weekend that Greece came close to not paying the 750 million euros due to the International Monetary Fund on May 12 will increase the political pressure on the government to reach a deal with lenders as soon as possible. The revelation ...
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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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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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Newsletter 121 - 02/06/2017
at an Economist conference in Frankfurt on Wednesday, Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos repeated his call... reflecting a sharp decline of 5.5 points in February. Three of the other four business indicators posted... negative again in April Figure is the third negative reading for the first four months of the year
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Newsletter 252 -29/05/2020
that there could still be tricky negotiations ahead, particularly with the so-called Frugal Four who... said that the package meets the four requirements set by Greece: To be large, flexible,mostly based... euros over four months. Tsipras also called for stronger protection of workers’ rights, citing a string
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Boosted by polls, PM uses Iran war to reassert control, shut down election and reshuffle talk
PoliticsGreek Politicsinsistence that he will neither call early elections nor reshuffle his cabinet, even as New Democracy enjoys... on Cyprus, where Greece’s rapid deployment of two frigates and four F‑16s has become the nucleus... in institutional terms. He has long argued that four‑year terms should be completed and that political
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