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Tsipras gets no encouragement from lenders, left to consider next move
PoliticsGreek PoliticsFollowing his meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin on Friday, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has a few days ahead to consider what action he wants to take next in what now looks set... to take place with the institutions and the Eurogroup. The Greek prime minister must now consider what
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Athens eyes fiscal compromise to complete programme review
PoliticsGreek Politics. However, he indicated that the government would only be willing to set out these measures now... that the measures would not be passed through Greek Parliament but would instead be detailed now and contingent
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Newsletter 102 - 13/01/2017
now, as the International Monetary Fund wants, it is prepared to extend the fiscal brake and to link... not involve legislating extra measures, even contingent ones, now. Tsipras’s biggest fear is that he
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Newsletter 103 - 20/01/2017
and income tax measures to be legislated now so they can be implemented automatically in the future... Journal, he suggested that the failure to conclude the review now, with the approval of the IMF, would
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Decisive week for Greek programme begins with proposal from Athens
EconomyProgrammethat “the priority now is to conclude the second review as soon as possible” adding... Minister Alexis Tsipras insisted that the government would not pass new measures now and would only
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Athens holds back proposal details ahead of Thursday's Eurogroup
PoliticsGreek Politicsto the government’s consistent position that it will not countenance the adoption of any new measures now..., is not the equivalent of voting through those measures now. The coalition argues that based on the fiscal performance
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Newsletter 104 - 27/01/2017
the lenders agree that Athens should legislate now the contingency measures that the International... on personal incomes and cuts to existing pensions), but insisted that it would not adopt specific measures now
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Space and time the missing elements in Greek bailout talks
Agoraof kicking the can down the road was available. The problem now is that everyone is running out... economy has shown signs that it can heal itself; what it needs now is to be given the time and space
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With review stalled, Athens continues to be coy on concessions
PoliticsGreek Politicsto create common ground. Juncker’s proposal reportedly involved the review being concluded now... of such initiatives. The most likely route now is that there will be a more detailed discussion at the EWG
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European Commission positive on Greece's macro and fiscal prospects
EconomyMacroeconomyforecasts which now stand at 23.4 percent in 2016 (from 23.5 percent before), at 22 percent in 2017... its debt-to-GDP forecasts by around 2 percentage points with the ratio now seen at 179.7 percent
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