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Androulakis well-placed to retain PASOK leadership as Doukas sneaks into run-off ballot
PoliticsGreek Politics, Doukas managed to narrowly hold off Geroulanos, earning just 858 votes more than his more experienced.... It is thought that the supporters of the four candidates are more likely to support Androulakis than... for the second round. However, Doukas’s inability to dominate in the city he presides over has put him
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Government’s effort to revive economic success story narrative heavily reliant on RRF execution
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe often-heard argument that most Greeks are not noticeably better off than they were a few years ago.... Fewer Greek firms have submitted loan applications than anticipated, leaving the government with little... than expected, while some prospective borrowers have questioned whether the administrative burden
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New Democracy and SYRIZA neck and neck for EP vote but PASOK adrift
PoliticsGreek Politicsshowing in polls could be attributed to its unfamiliarity is now over. With less than three weeks to go until the elections, the novelty of such an alliance cannot explain its inability to break... that if the Olive Tree gets less than 10 percent in the European elections, this would create “a problem
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Greece sets out broad reform plan for lenders' approval
EconomyProgrammeaccount for more than half (56 percent) of total expenditure. The non-wage benefits will be reviewed... strategic default and inability to pay. The government also pledged to de-criminalise lower income... Finance Ministry target to collect more than 3 billion euros from unpaid tax obligations
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Tsipras to meet Merkel amid search for political backing
PoliticsGreek Politicswith EU leaders rather than a technocratic one with eurozone finance ministers. The coalition... than is currently the case. Reports in Greece suggest that Tsipras will also seek face to face... of an internal default via the inability to pay wages or pensions, and a “Graccident” via the failure to pay
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What capital controls will mean for Greek banks, customers and the economy
Economyeuros per card, which is much lower than the 300-euro daily cap set in Cyprus two years ago. Press... than that imposed before the legislative decree. These transactions should relate to payments... for the inability of wage payments in the private sector, which are usually due at the end of each
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A third of young Greeks would consider emigrating to escape economic problems
Societyin Greece were late paying more than two bills. “The absolutely most common reason stated for being late, an answer given by 79 percent of those having paid late, was the inability to pay,” the report... their bank.” These are among the findings presented in the report, an annual survey in which more than
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The men who would be prime ministers
AgoraThere has been much consternation in Greece over the last few years about the economy’s inability... than his colleagues, should call for Tsipras to resign and snap elections to be held. It came... before him, he has more than the same single string to his bow. *This article first appeared in last
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Effort to unite PASOK and Potami seems to have hit a wall
PoliticsGreek Politicsencountered also highlight the inability of Greece’s opposition parties to convincingly seize... faces is highlighted by the fact that he is only slightly more popular than Tsipras (19.5 percent... to set out at the Thessaloniki International Fair will be more convincing than the one Tsipras is due
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Newsletter 91 - 07/10/2016
for the debt-to-GDP ratio stands at 184.7 percent in 2017, almost 10 percentage points higher than... or a backdoor tax amnesty. The inability to enforce such schemes led the IMF this past month to call... it possible for more than half of taxpayers to avoid exceeding the threshold, in particular farmers, fixed
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