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Tsipras lays down gauntlet to SYRIZA rebels, proposes September congress or members' vote
PoliticsGreek Politicsto assess the party's position on the agreement for a third bailout. The proposals both seek to cut off... appears to have received a boost ahead of the committee meeting as one of SYRIZA's factions, known... this government's life to a premature end. This, in fact, was one of the main lines of argument used
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First TV debate does little to fire up election contest
PoliticsGreek Politicsinsistence on post-electoral cooperation with other parties, including SYRIZA. In one of the few... would grant one, which is seen as an indirect criticism of Lafazanis’s position that Greece can seek... a decade ago. This led to a brief, off- and on-camera exchange between the two men, with Meimarakis
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Omnibus bill goes to Parliament as Greece seeks to unlock 2 bln sub-tranche
EconomyProgrammeof the initially rumored one article, which means that a number of MPs may decide to vote in favor... in Parliament under the “emergency” procedure on July 15 and 22 and on August 14 contained only one article.... Health 10) Reduction in the price of all off-patent drugs to whichever is the lowest between 50
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Banks' trading updates show slight improvement in core pre-provision income, deceleration in NPL formation
Economycore-pre provision income (excluding one off items) rebounded 2 percent quarter on quarter (QoQ... fell to 119 million in Q2, less than one-third the 391 million recorded in Q2. The improving trend
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Loose ends to tie up on prior actions as lenders head back to Athens
PoliticsGreek Politicsin Athens on Thursday, is also significant. Hollande is one of the few eurozone leaders that has spoken..., and to publicly call for Greek debt relief. Hollande is due to become one of the few international leaders... passes the 50-percent mark, a run-off ballot between the two leading hopefuls will take place a week
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Greece most socially unjust country in EU, study finds
Societysample, Greece falls “dauntingly far off the mark” in providing high employment rates in good, well... olds has more than doubled since 2008 to 52.4 percent (again, by far one of the highest rates.... Given that country is one of the demographically oldest in the EU and carries also the highest
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Meimarakis seen as clear frontrunner with New Democracy leadership vote approaching
PoliticsGreek Politicsin one. However, the highest rating either of them achieved was 27 percent. Meimarakis’s superiority... though his refusal to participate in one has drawn criticism from the other three hopefuls. In fact... in an apparent attempt to at least ensure that the incumbent has to compete in a run-off vote
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Internal and external difficulties with measures expose coalition's weaknesses
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat the new target is to achieve an agreement that the Euro Working Group can sign off on by Friday. Whether... have mentioned before, the foreclosures issue is a particularly sensitive one for the government... (DIMAR) and was one of the few non-SYRIZA officials in the previous government.
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Opposition party leader Leventis a coalition partner-in-waiting?
PoliticsGreek Politicsby the challenging reforms that lie ahead. State Minister Alekos Flambouraris, one of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’s... Kammenos to step down. Kammenos was a minister in one of Karamanlis’s governments when the latter was prime minister. Karamanlis and his supporters are backing Evangelos Meimarakis in the run-off vote
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HFSF Q3 report shows 23 bln valuation losses in Greek banks
EconomyBankingperiod. On top of the valuation losses, the negative bottom-line result also incorporates a one-off... was injected (in the form of shares) in NBG and Piraeus in November, corresponding to one quarter
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