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  1. Top SYRIZA officials hint at path to compromise with eurozone
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    servicing costs, rather than a reduction in the principal. Giorgos Stathakis, who is likely to take up... that have been discussed at a European level and would put a new government led by the leftists much closer to an agreement than had seemed the case for the last few months. New programme SYRIZA’s

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  2. New Greek cabinet a mixed bag, prompting hope and concern
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    should be to reduce annual interest payments to less than 2.5 percent from the current 4.3 percent rather than a reduction in the principal. Stathakis's department will also be responsible for two key... was foreign minister more than a decade ago. More recently, he has worked as a professor

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  3. Samaras future unclear as New Democracy enters period of introspection

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    committee on Thursday, when he pointed out that the party had lost less than 2 percentage points... also underlined that the party had gained more than 400,000 votes since the European Parliament... convincing. His critics will point out that the conservatives lost more than 100,000 votes compared

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  4. The alternative of (tax-based) capital controls for Greece
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    leverage in the negotiations than they appear to think. Unless they were willing to put the Grexit option.... Capital controls would be less costly for Greece than Grexit. Moreover, capital controls would... greater cost for Greece than capital controls, it would be unlikely for Greece to go through

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  5. Will the real men of unity please stand up?
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    rather than joke. After all, would humorous references about the way that politicians from other... like the statements SYRIZA put out while in opposition. The language reflects a mindset that is still... to the “troika” of lenders, rather than the “institutions” mentioned in official documents, knowing this would

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  6. High levels of dissatisfaction among Greeks, Eurostat report shows

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    and Portugal. However, Greeks were considerably more satisfied than their neighbours in Bulgaria... in Greece, where the average was 7.0, compared to an EU average 7.8. Still, that figure put Greece... of 6.2 compared to the EU’s 7.3, Greeks were more satisfied than the Bulgarians, Italians

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  7. Newsletter 30 - 12/06/2015

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    will put togther a face-saving deal at the last minute. There were reports on Friday that Greece had... with its lenders over the last few days have been more like a ride on the ghost train than a roller... is shattered, the economy is gasping for air and society is at a loss. The proposal contains more than

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  8. Newsletter 40 - 28/08/2015

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    with the “establishment” parties, as he put it, he would not be the prime minister of such an administration... it through more than a few months. The key numbers involved in a bail-in Senior debt bondholders... fell further to 120.83 billion, which is the lowest reading in more than 12 years. Since last

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  9. Newsletter 85 - 05/08/2016

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    the beginning of the year, arrears have grown by 1.23 billion, corresponding to a rise of more than 20 percent... or more than 900 million compared to the figure of 5.89 billion in the corresponding period last year... the Georgiou case as an “open wound”. He is right, but not for the reason that he suggests. Rather than

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  10. Stepping up search for alliances, Tsipras welcomes Euro-Med leaders
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    that arrivals may rise even more than they have since July. Tsipras’s mood ahead of the Athens meeting... the issue of debt relief and how the subject may be put off until after the German elections in 2017...,” adding that “it is preferable to have a European Germany… than a German Europe.” His comments came

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