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Coalition sees key targets met in debt deal but opposition has holes to pick
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat the coalition met one of its key targets, which has not always been the case during its negotiations... The future fiscal targets are likely to be one of the issues highlighted most by New Democracy, which... to be sustainable over the long-term. IMF managing director Christine Lagarde said that the Fund is “very
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Russia responds to expulsions but diplomatic row seen petering out
PoliticsForeign Policythat Moscow responded by forbidding entry to just one official, there have been suggestions in Athens... his counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, as “one of the best diplomats in the world” with whom he had “a very friendly relationship.” Lavrov was planning to visit Athens in September but he decided
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Agorafor more than one year with very few prospects of employability, while close to a quarter... that translated into people moving their money out of the banks in two major waves, one between the end
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Macedonia name issue: Agreement and disagreement
Agorathe constitutional reform with the required 2/3s majority. Europeanisation One might wonder, however, why... that it belongs to the family of the Slavic languages and draws again a very clear distinction with ancient... the settlement. Indeed, one might wonder why the agreement is meeting such a fierce opposition from
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Athens poised to unveil new minimum wage as post-MoU review continues
EconomyProgrammeis seen as one of the most important loose ends that needs to be tied up in the coming days... to meet its debt obligations in the medium term remains strong according to the Fund, thanks to very... to data from the Ergani system, one in three people working in the private sector, or 614,044
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Newsletter 192 -01/02/2019
political system,” making it very clear in the process what SYRIZA’s main line of attack... the appropriate level for the minimum wage, i.e. one that will suit the capacity and characteristics... euros net pay and is almost 64 euros higher compared to the one set up in 2012. The increase is much
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ND keeps pressure on PM over minister as Tsakalotos muses on fiscal targets
PoliticsGreek Politicsof managing it and did not meet even one of their forecasts.” The comment was an indirect criticism.... I don’t think it's very likely they will be in power but in the unlikely and unfortunate eventuality that they are in power… If that was one of their main building blocks of what they wanted to do
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Tsipras, Mitsotakis step up rhetoric ahead of EU vote as polls show little change
PoliticsGreek Politics. “This SYRIZA, with this Tsipras cannot be part of any alliance,” he said, adding that one of the next... 50 percent said that corruption cases would impact on the way that they vote. One of the features... of interventions, such as the increase to the minimum wage and the rent subsidy scheme, have had a very
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S&P keeps rating at 'B+' and highlights obstacles to competitiveness
Economy’s as the latter raised Greece’s rating by two notches to ‘B1’ last month. Both are one notch behind... its view that Greece has one of the most advantageous debt profiles of all its rated sovereigns... of early elections in June or July. The series of elections in the second half of this year will very
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Confidence vote due amid toxic atmosphere, narrowing of opposition poll lead
PoliticsGreek Politicsof the latest political clash. One part of the fiery exchange between Tsipras and Mitsotakis... and articles on the matter. New Democracy also seems to have no appetite for letting the matter rest. One... reduction, pension bonus and debt payment plans) and 23.3 percent said they thought they were “very
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