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Athens aiming to step up diplomatic contact with neighbours
PoliticsForeign Policy, the previous one led by Nikola Gruevski as well as the current one headed by Zoran Zaev. Athens believes
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Tsipras eyes review conclusion, insists SYRIZA patience will pay off
PoliticsGreek Politicsas the matter is still under discussion with the lenders. One of the possibilities being discussed... under one in three of those questioned (31 percent) said the visit, which included a meeting with US
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Greece drops six places in global ease of doing business report
EconomyFeaturesto ease starting up a business, such as the one-stop shop service, do not appear to have done enough... dropped one place from 64 to 65 for paying taxes. Securing electricity appeared to be an obstacle
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Tsipras rallies MPs, marks dividing lines with opposition
PoliticsGreek Politics. Helping workers, weakest It will, nevertheless, form one of the key political battle lines as Greece... Wednesday’s speech, Tsipras returned to the issue of the programme conclusion, which is one
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EC upbeat on reforms paying off, as long as they continue
EconomyProgrammeseats. Labour market Regaining competitiveness has been one of the main objectives of the first programme and is an ongoing effort in the running ESM one. A new package of labour market reforms has been
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Newsletter 140 -17/11/2017
that a list has been agreed between Athens and the European Commission. The one prior action..., the government this week began its much-anticipated debt swap. Following a successful swap of one bond issue
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Gennimata handed task of transforming PASOK into broader centre-left alliance
PoliticsGreek Politicscurrently has a comfortable lead in the opinion polls, fails to gain an outright majority. One... no indication of the PASOK leader leaning one way or another. The subject is likely to dominate
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Deal seen on energy liberalisation as third review SLA edges closer
EconomyProgrammeJust a few days are left before the institutions return to Athens in search of Staff-Level Agreement (SLA) before the December 4 Eurogroup and it appears that one of the big-ticket items in the third... officials last week, the lenders had identified this as one of two issues that have to be agreed
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Greece's open floodgates
Agorais that clearly not enough has been done, either by the current government or its predecessors. One... back a long way and spread across Greece’s political spectrum. That is one of the reasons
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EU-Greece island containment policy slammed as refugees endure squalid winter camps
Societyfreezing weather, and overcrowding. In one incident on the island of Lesvos, a cooking stove exploded... the transfer of 2,000 people from Samos and Lesvos to the mainland as a one-off emergency response
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