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Clock ticks on bailout review but big gaps remain between Greece, lenders
EconomyProgrammein contributions e.g. for 1 pp in total. This means that the government has to consider alternative measures... compared to those incorporated in the Labour Ministry’s draft plan. Meanwhile, the government has... euros. The Greek government has so far not indicated how it will cover this amount, although
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Benefits and banana skins for Greece in EU-Turkey refugee deal
PoliticsForeign Policyto Turkey. The EU has offered to resettle refugees directly from Turkey in a further effort to deter people... manageable. The Greek government has been advocating for several months that refugees should be relocated... the refugees and migrants. At the moment, it is a slow and laborious process for which Athens has limited
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Mitsotakis, Konstantopoulou intending to test Tsipras's mettle
PoliticsGreek PoliticsKyriakos Mitsotakis has decided to be more aggressive in his criticism of the government over this issue... in Greece a “disgrace,” which is by far the most powerful language he has used to criticise... relations battle over this particular issue and that the government has managed to get across its
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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... and abusing her position as head of the country’s top court. The government has avoided becoming
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Brussels attacks prompt fears in Athens over handling of refugee crisis
PoliticsForeign Policyis on the German chancellor, who is one of the few EU leaders who believes in the plan and has the weight... as ensure that it has enough capacity at the detention facilities that will be needed. A total... 650,000 Albanians moved to Greece. “So Albania, too, has extensive experience of the movement
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Newsletter 70 - 15/04/2016
. Subsequent press reports indicated the government has proposed to lenders an increase in the main VAT rate... on board, possibly with the IMF remaining as a technical adviser until the issue of debt relief has... and that MPs would not vote on the draft laws until a staff level agreement has been reached with the quadriga
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Bailout talks inch forward as Juncker comments complicate matters
PoliticsGreek Politicsside has been adamant that it will not accept a larger decrease, with Finance Minister Euclid... towards that direction but this has to be assessed in reality. I was making it perfectly clear when... targets We do think that Greece has made efforts to a huge extend and this now has to be checked
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Locating Europe's pulse in the refugee crisis
Agorais experiencing. The catalyst for this quandary over the EU’s raison d’etre has been the arrival of hundreds of thousands of refugees on Europe’s shores since last year. Europe’s response has often seemed... fences have gone up. This has not resembled the progressive, open and self-confident EU that many
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A Eurogroup deal that might be hard to stomach
Agoraof the Eurogroup means that Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has managed to conclude the review... for around 4.5 billion of liquidity that has been withdrawn. Also significantly for Greece, the debt... that Tsipras has to implement a highly recessionary programme full of direct and indirect taxation
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Newsletter 78 - 17/06/2016
clearly has much to gain from changing the topic of discussion. Trailing in New Democracy’s wake.... In both cases, reason has collided with emotion. Just as was the case in Greece last year, it was much.... In this era of so-called “post-truth politics”, it has become standard practice for some
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