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SYRIZA unveils array of pledges to win over voters ahead of July 7 vote
PoliticsGreek Politicsof the middle class. Xenogiannakopoulou is one of the highest profile additions to SYRIZA’s team from.... This is further evidence that SYRIZA intends to run a substantially different campaign to the one... to send a message of teamwork that will contrast with New Democracy’s strategy, which is very much
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Mitsotakis earns space to govern with big win, Tsipras limits damage
PoliticsGreek Politicsa very workable majority in the next Parliament, but did not led to the crushing defeat that many... development law will be one of the first pieces of draft legislation to be tabled after the summer... of Varoufakis’s vehicle, MeRA25 into Parliament was one of the other significant stories
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Newsletter 214 -12/07/2019
Skylakakis, the deputy minister responsible for government spending, is one of the non-parliamentarians... which Mitsotakis himself hails from. Mitsotakis’s may have made one of his shrewdest choices... relief measures, and it’s very hard to see how debt sustainability can be achieved without
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Bid for better use of digital tools likely to have decisive impact on ND's goals
PoliticsGreek Politicsdirector of the Dianeosis think-tank, as his digital governance minister. Pierrakakis is one of the 21... that the government hopes to have simplified the process for registering births within a few months. One of the key... plan for the 5G network very soon, with the aim of the tender process for mobile operators being
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Government courts backlash over squat raids, while opposition is absorbed in internal debate
PoliticsGreek Politicsof 143 foreign nationals, 35 of whom are minors. Two Greeks and one French national were arrested.... At the same time, New Democracy has taken a more hard-line stance on migration. One of Kyriakos... circumstances. Historically, the party had developed a very strong message on human rights issues and had
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Deadline looms for troubled home protection scheme as insolvency law is lined up
Economywas dealt with by the so-called Katseli law that was introduced very early in the crisis... code from May onwards is expected to be one of the main, and perhaps trickiest, subjects on the agenda... taken by key participants under one platform. The current scheme did not include loans that were
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Fitch raises Greece to 'BB,' two notches from investment grade, sees growth at 2.5 pct in 2020
EconomyFitch upgraded Greece’s credit rating on Friday by one notch to ‘BB’ and revised upwards its... puts Fitch ahead of the other leading agencies, with S&P one notch behind at ‘BB-‘ and Moody’s at ‘B1.... That said, Greek banks have a very high starting NPE ratio point of 42.1 percent and their efforts
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Govt takes up fiscal requests with EU as pressure over min wage, main homes mounts
Politicslonger-term requests: One is for the creating of a so-called smoothing mechanism to allow any excess surplus from one year to be transferred to the next, along with the longstanding demand... representatives focussed on the fate of primary residences and the lack of protection for property owners. “Very
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Newsletter 240 -21/02/2020
to cast light on corruption allegations. The situation came to a head on Tuesday, when one of the two...-MoU era, and its strategy in opposition. One component of the debate, the decision concerning.... The proceedings culminated in a vote on the rights of new members, which was won very narrowly
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Fifth post-MoU review concludes successfully, EC highlights public investment, NPLs as areas of concern
EconomyProgrammedevelopments have been incorporated in the analysis and confirm the debt’s downward path. In one... and the internal capacity of the banks to work settlements and cure them is very low. The Asset Protection Scheme... the first one. By June this year, Athens should have some clarity on the re-purposing of the SMP and ANFA
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