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If it's debt restructuring you're looking for, Regling's not your man
Agora, 5.8 billion to Cyprus and has committed financial resources of 86 billion for Greece’s third.... Specifically in the case of Greece if anyone has skin in the game, it is Klaus Regling. The ESM’s exposure... of economic output this year. Naturally, the ESM’s managing director is often asked about Greece’s debt
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Gov't under scrutiny over relationship with judicial system
PoliticsForeign PolicyThe government’s relationship with the Greek judiciary has come under increasing criticism... it issued recently criticising the country’s top judge. Thanou has been under the spotlight since launching... as for writing to her colleagues in other European Union countries asking them to urge the country’s
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IMF sets out stall ahead of crucial Eurogroup by proposing immediate debt relief
EconomyProgrammediscussed nor approved. The report notes that the programme’s initial implementation problems mounted... for the implementation of the necessary reforms, while the government’s current policy plans fall well short of what the IMF would require for Greece to achieve the third eurozone bailout programme’s
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The enemy within
Agora, who is also the government’s spokesman on the refugee issue, suggested in a comment piece in SYRIZA... for Greece’s fiscal adjustment to those who had backed the Yes campaign in last July’s referendum. Kyritsis... did not apologise but instead explained that what he meant was the government’s task is to ensure
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Turkish unrest gives Greece the shivers
AgoraWhen Turkey catches a cold, Greece gets the shivers. It’s always been the way. When... of Turkish officials. Turkey’s ambassador to Greece argued that not returning the fugitives “would not help at all, and that public opinion’s sentiments might be ... reactionary, let’s say.” Perhaps
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Can Greece learn to love renewable energy?
EconomyFeaturesenergy sources (RES), but thanks to several false starts, there is still a long way to go. Greece’s two major lignite mines in Ptolemaida and Megalopolis are the main sources of fuel for the country’s part-state owned Public Power Corporation (PPC). The country’s mines rank second in the EU
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Newsletter 88 - 16/09/2016
-tranche of 2.8 billion euros. However, the latest round of talks with the country’s lenders have ended... of that, the creditors appear to have put a stop to some of the government’s plans, such as allowing businesses... of a Greece’s lenders will not take kindly to any attempt to interfere with or exercise influence over
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Tsipras's meeting with judiciary seen crossing the line
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Alexis Tsipras’s decision to meet with the heads of Greece’s judiciary on Thursday has sparked a new round of accusations that the government is attempting to influence the country’s... to those “at the top of the pyramid.” The prime minister’s office subsequently clarified
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Grappling with Europe's polycrisis
Agorafrequently by MEPs and members of the EU’s executive branch in Brussels these days. Following... the eurozone crisis revealed flaws in the single currency’s architecture and a lack of vision among... practical and existential challenge, but several less prominent issues have also chipped away at the EU’s
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Cabinet reshuffle leaves some bitterness within SYRIZA
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAlexis Tsipras’s new cabinet has mostly been welcomed as an attempt to conclude the second review and improve the government’s capacity in certain areas but on Monday it became apparent... in religion classes, which had been one of the points of dispute between Fylis and Ieronymos. At SYRIZA’s
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