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Space and time the missing elements in Greek bailout talks
Agoraand motivations have created a Mexican stand-off from which it will not be easy to extricate themselves... that took Greece out of the crisis (albeit one he exacerbated during his premiership). This would leave Tsipras and SYRIZA with a much more respectable legacy than the one they are destined
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Athens in search of counter-measures to secure MPs' support for potential deal
PoliticsGreek PoliticsA trade-off between the fiscal measures being demanded by the institutions and steps aimed... regarding a possible rebellion from the nine Independent Greeks MPs. One SYRIZA MP, Nikos Manios, stated.... The shape of the final agreement, if there is to be one, may depend on the view that the institutions
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Revenues beat target by 3.9 pct in Feb, remain above target for year
EconomyMacroeconomyestimates in the coming years. Although a part of this overperformance is related to certain one-off... in February amounted to 331 million euros, 83 million or one-third higher than target. As a result, net
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Labour reforms, fiscal measures loom largest as Athens resumes talks with lenders
PoliticsGreek Politicssince) by 1 percent of GDP in one go from 2020. This seems to be the proposal from the lenders... and middle-income earners, not just business and the more well-off. If the Greek premier can argue... and leaving just one or two issues that will still have to be settled after the Eurogroup.
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Tsipras rallies ministers and MPs before multi-bill arrives
PoliticsGreek Politicsopportunity for Tsipras to ensure that everyone in his government is reading off the same page... the SYRIZA or Independent Greeks (ANEL) ranks. Former Education Minister Nikos Fylis, one of the most... the counter-measures in one article is clearly designed to force New Democracy and other parties
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Newsletter 123 - 16/06/2017
and inclusion in the ECB’s QE programme is still some way off. The government had planned to build a path back... in April, of which almost one fifth stemmed from VAT. The aggregate figure for the four-month period... slightly in Q1 The jobless rate fell by 1.6 percentage points compared to one year ago The non
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Greek media often sensationalised coverage of refugee crisis, study argues
Societyadded to the confused narrative surrounding how the crisis was dealt with. “On the one hand... that hostility towards migrants was high and nearly one in two Greeks had a negative view of Muslims... crisis has largely fallen off the agenda of the local media who have reverted to covering sensational
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PASOK launches attempt to form alliance that would rival SYRIZA
PoliticsGreek Politics, Gennimata satisfies one of the demands made by To Potami last year, when an attempt to unite... synthesis of political personnel, views and support. Significantly, one of the three former PASOK ministers... killed off this idea and SYRIZA’s hopes that such an alliance could even vie with New Democracy
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Varosha move puzzles amid low expectations on Cyprus
PoliticsForeign Policyinformed of any plans by the Turkish Cypriot side to hand over the fenced-off city of Varosha to UN... complex. Opening up the abandoned city has been one of the scenarios discussed many times in the past... the situation. No one, though, is expecting any significant developments aimed at reaching a solution
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Capital controls to ease further from the beginning of September
EconomyMacroeconomybank than the one they currently have an account with and the opening of a bank account by a natural..., which constituted one of the 140 prior actions the government had to complete before the end... collections that this brings could taper off as customers return to paying by cash once capital controls
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