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  1. Greece drops six places in global ease of doing business report
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    EconomyFeatures

    , according to the report. This year’s score put the country lower than neighbouring Albania at 65, Turkey...The World Bank’s Doing Business 2018 report showed that Greece fell several places to stand at 67 out of 190 countries surveyed. Last year’s report had put the country at 61. The latest figures

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  2. Erdogan makes forceful start to visit, catches Athens off guard
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    PoliticsForeign Policy

    that the Turkish president finds himself mostly isolated within Europe. It appears that Athens wanted to put... and Tsipras before their meeting was milder than the discussion with Pavlopoulos moments earlier, there was a distinct feeling that the Turkish president had ruffled feathers and perhaps put the Greek

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  3. Despite speculation, post-MoU credit line seems unlikely
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    to ask the creditors to put together a credit line rather than to attempt to leave the bailout... will materialise in the coming months. Firstly, for a credit line to be put together, there has

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  4. Athens puts off bond sale, has fiscal concerns to address
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    Greek authorities decided on Tuesday to put off plans to begin the book-building process... without having to risk a higher cost of borrowing than it would want. There has been some... to Naftemporiki on condition of anonymity highlighted that trying to put together the MTFS now

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  5. New Democracy targets SYRIZA over law and order, independent institutions
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    is weaker than expected. The opposition party highlighted that the first estimate of growth in 2017... it is not in power. The matter in question was the government’s decision to put forward the General Secretary... officially put forward Koutentakis as a candidate ahead of the 10 other applicants who reportedly applied

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  6. Tsipras eyes common ground with centre-left over revision of constitution
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    with the current government even though it had earlier shown an interest in the proposal put together... for SYRIZA in the future, Tsipras has now seized on the suggestions put forward by Gennimata... the process with a qualified majority of more than 180 of 300 seats. If, though

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  7. Tsipras fends off election rumours, Mitsotakis talks up moderate qualities
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    officials it is thought, who prefer for the vote to be put off until next year so that the economy has more...’s lead may be enough to convince Tsipras to call snap elections this year rather than wait until... and put hundreds of jobs at risk by trying to block the mining project in northern Greece

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  8. Tsipras moves forward with name talks as domestic balance comes into focus
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    , or both, indicate they will back a deal. This would allow the SYRIZA leader to put opposition chief... premier may face a more testing time getting his balancing act right at home than in trying to reach consensus with his FYROM counterpart. Justice New Democracy attempted to put further pressure

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  9. Fourth review nears conclusion, clearing path for debt relief agreement

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    , it was confirmed that a few (the number is put at 2-3) prior actions that are of a technical nature... will be put together for Greece. In terms of long-term restructuring, discussions about the so-called... scheme, which applies to any state owing more than roughly 1.8 billion euros. This would suit Germany’s

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  10. Change to date of local elections adds to expectations of May national vote
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    to be put to a vote by Greek MPs several months earlier as Kammenos has indicated he would withdraw his... with its efforts to put pressure on the coalition to allow Greeks abroad to vote in the next general... to dodge this issue, fearing that such a move would send more votes in New Democracy’s direction than

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