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A breakdown of the funding needs involved in Greece's third bailout
EconomyProgrammethe country’s funding needs over the course of the three-year programme are also likely to come into focus. So far, the main guide to Greece’s financing requirements is a 12-page assessment of Greece’s request for a three-year loan from the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) compiled by the European
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From the troika to the quartet
Agora), the newcomer making the quadriga, it would be Greece’s third macro-economic adjustment programme... not apply to any other member state. Put otherwise, when the future of Greece’s membership of the euro...’s international creditors. The IMF’s debt sustainability analysis and the political economy
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Tsipras ponders delaying snap elections until debt relief talks start
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGreek Parliament is expected to vote on the country’s third bailout of around 85 billion euros... on Tuesday morning. Thursday’s vote could prove decisive in shaping Greece’s immediate political future... that will be created by the decision of SYRIZA’s Left Platform not to support the agreement
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Why Tsipras might gamble on snap elections
Agora, between September and November, is part of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’s thinking, especially after seeing just 118 of his coalition’s 162 MPs back the third bailout in Friday’s vote, which took him.... The situation within SYRIZA looks equally unviable as about a quarter of the party’s MPs will be voting
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SYRIZA seen marginally ahead as Tsipras and Meimarakis go head-to-head
PoliticsGreek PoliticsSYRIZA’s Alexis Tsipras and New Democracy’s Evangelos Meimarakis will go head-to-head... contest. After last week’s damp squib of a debate involving seven party leaders, SYRIZA and New Democracy have agreed on a less rigid format for Monday night’s discussion. This could benefit
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Greek politics to dash voters hopes again
Agoraand actively campaigned for a “resounding no” to the deal that the country’s creditors had offered just... previously rejected and asked Greeks to do so too. Following this major turnaround, Tsipras’s party split, and the more radical side formed Popular Unity. What’s left of SYRIZA is in a state
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New Democracy heads for leadership vote as opposition ponders poll result
PoliticsGreek Politicsto bounce back from a disappointing showing in Sunday’s elections. The party saw its share of the vote... challenge has come from the party’s right wing, with former ministers Makis Voridis and Adonis Georgiadis being the most outspoken in their criticism of Meimarakis’s decision to appeal to the centre
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Tsipras keeps bailout issues in safe hands but fails to inspire with new cabinet
PoliticsGreek Politicsnot led the talks. Also, Greece’s main negotiatior in Brussels, Giorgos Houliarakis, has been given... the deal for the third bailout, receiving praise for his professionalism from Greece’s lenders in the process. The other deputy finance minister’s position is retained by Tryfon Alexiadis, the head
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Neither necessary, nor good
AgoraSYRIZA’s support among many in the European left, for whom isolating extreme views and promoting... MP’s inclusion perhaps maintains the political balance within the coalition that Tsipras deems... were set aside. The two main parties, the country’s media and Greece’s lenders appeared oblivious
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Potentially divisive New Democracy leadership race taking shape
PoliticsGreek Politicsformer minister, Makis Voridis, would represent the party’s right wing in the contest. Georgiadis... on who would run but it is not clear if the two men reached an agreement before Monday’s announcement... Democracy with Voridis three years ago and enthusiastic support for Greece’s bailouts, Georgiadis’s image
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