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Progress seen in Brussels talks but no deal in sight yet
PoliticsGreek Politicsto bring all the sides together ahead of Friday’s Eurogroup in Malta. Greece was represented by Finance... is a problem for the coalition as the government’s four-year term is due to end by September... government’s position. The Greek coalition thinks that Berlin is supporting the IMF’s stance. Greece
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Tsipras clears with relative ease first domestic hurdle to getting deal approved
PoliticsGreek PoliticsSYRIZA’s central committee voted in favour of the agreement reached between the government and its... Friday’s settlement in Malta. According to reports, 11 members of the 151-person committee voted... backing of Tsipras and his government from one of SYRIZA’s main bodies. A total of 113 members voted
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Newsletter 118 - 12/05/2017
the Labour Ministry’s Ergani information system showed. This year’s figure is the highest positive... point to net hirings of 125,770, up by around 1,000 from last year’s figure of 124,465. This year’s figure is the highest reading since 2001. Greece’s general government (gg) primary cash surplus
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Athens seeks clarification from UN envoy as Cyprus talks head for dead-end
PoliticsForeign PolicyGuterres, adding that he would seek the latter’s “advice on the way forward.” Eide’s announcement... and Turkish Cypriot leader, Mustafa Akinci would succeed in ending the island’s 43-year division. The UN official’s move was seen by some as a surprise, by some as “the end of the process” and by others
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Tsipras tackles two fronts as debt talks continue
PoliticsGreek Politicswith Greece’s lenders over a possible agreement at next week’s Eurogroup and the process of ensuring...” and does not guarantee Greece’s return to the markets with sustainable terms. Tzanakopoulos added... to be re-negotiated if the IMF departs. On the domestic front, SYRIZA’s 27-member political
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Newsletter 123 - 16/06/2017
This week’s Eurogroup meeting ended without drama on Thursday night and with an agreement that ticks some... to 15 years had been on offer at last month’s Eurogroup but a new inclusion was the reference... change to the “if necessary” that had been used in the May 2016 Eurogroup text. Thursday’s document also
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Coalition defends deal with lenders, opposition exerts pressure
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Alexis Tsipras is expected to step up his efforts to present last Thursday’s... at the political management of last week’s agreement, which secured another 8.5 billion euros in bailout funding... next summer, which will clearly be the coalition’s central theme from now on. In the speech, Tsipras
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Tsipras tries to resolve trash row as opposition goes on offensive
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe meeting, the prime minister set out the government’s ideas for ending the dispute. This was based...-OTA’s demand that there should be no age limit on the permanent hirings, as well as some other... backing to SYRIZA’s coalition partner during the debate and insisted that Kammenos had simply being
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Newsletter 128 - 21/07/2017
Eurogroup, mostly for political reasons. Since the positive reaction from the markets to last month’s deal was overshadowed domestically by rows over the Defence Minister Panos Kammenos’s contact... about the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) executive board meeting on Thursday and the hope
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Bond success questioned as coalition looks to build on trial issue
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAfter Tuesday’s trial bond issue, the government has set its sights on tapping the markets at least... believe any celebrations should be put on hold. While the government’s reaction to the result... was higher now than it was in 2014 as Greece’s five-year bond yield has only fallen by 0.325
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