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  1. Greece stands on fault line between vicious and virtuous cycles for 2016

    Agora

    During 2015, Greece’s ability to meet its debt obligations became one of the most drama-ridden aspects of a story that started unfolding when SYRIZA won the January elections. The newly elected... payments into one and finally missing that payment altogether at the end of the month. To make ends meet

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  2. Greece's 2016 diplomatic agenda begins with talks on Cyprus and name issue
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    PoliticsForeign Policy

    that the Cyprus issue will be one of Athens’s priorities in the months to come. Eide said during his visit... priorities was the one DUI’s president Ali Ahmeti made last Friday, in Athens. DUI is the main ethnic

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  3. Mitsotakis targets Tsipras, floating voters and populists in first speech to his MPs
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    will be one of his biggest tests in the months to come. In his first choices for key party positions... Vroutsis) and one is a total newcomer, lawyer Niki Kerameus who was elected on the party’s state list

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  4. PASOK and Potami divided over direction to take after Mitsotakis win
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    of the centre-left. Grigorakos’s dissent was just one of the signs that opinion is divided. Grigarakos is seen... of February but in an interview in Sunday’s Kathimerini, one of its leading MPs, Haris Theoharis

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  5. Mounting pension protests exert more pressure on coalition
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    . Counterbalance As we have mentioned before, one of the government’s key tools in counter-balancing... process for new broadcasting licenses, which SYRIZA has held up as one of the initiatives aimed

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  6. SYRIZA's long, slow march
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    Agora

    failed to have immediate results.” There are probably three ways one could read this comment... relief the IMF recommends but does not want the policies it advocates, which is one of the reasons

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  7. After criticism over public sector jobs, gov't names new revenues chief
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    Commission welcomed the appointment and stressed that the creation of an independent revenue service is one of the government’s bailout commitments. Indeed, Pitsilis will have one of the toughest tasks

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  8. Pension reform a precarious battleground for Tsipras and Mitsotakis
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    regard it as being even tougher than the one on the table now and closer to what the quadriga of lenders... in power. He also urged the merging of pension funds into three organisations, rather than one

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  9. Deadline for liberalisation of household and SME NPLs looms closer

    Economy

    Apart from pension reform, one of the most socially and politically sensitive issues of the first programme review is the full liberalisation of the non-performing loan (NPL) market. Although... should not deteriorate due to the sale or transfer of the NPL. If a borrower has more than one loans

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  10. With bailout review in balance, PASOK's role back in spotlight
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    scenarios developing about what could happen if the government struggles to close the current review. One... has already ousted one MP, Leonidas Grigorakos, after he suggested that PASOK lawmakers would

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