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IMF sees eurozone debt relief pledges failing to deliver sustainability
EconomyProgramme) framework due to the majority of Greece’s debt consisting of official sector loans with favourable... horizon under consideration (until 2080 in Greece’s case) to cover the maturity of the official loans... of Greece’s programme due to the debt issue remaining unresolved, it stresses that any debt restructuring
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Government rounds off legislative activity, Mitsotakis offers alternative on education
PoliticsGreek Politicson Friday in protest, as To Potami did a week earlier. However, the coalition’s focus is on three... that the competition would help improve the quality of Greece’s public institutions. This is a particularly... dropped the idea by the time he was elected as the country’s leader in 2009. The New Democracy leader
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Third review agenda becoming more complex for Tsipras
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGreece’s lenders and an agenda that seems to be broadening by the day. The initial subjects up... Dijsselbloem is due in Athens for talks with Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos. Athens’s... minister’s election plans. He insisted over the weekend that elections would be held at the end
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Coalition bolsters unity in face of opposition pressure
PoliticsGreek PoliticsRecent attempts by Greece’s opposition parties to drive a wedge between SYRIZA and Independent... Democracy’s proposal for Kammenos to face an inquiry over his contact with the owner of the ship... reservations about the gender bill but the party’s about-turn was not affected. Kammenos’s decision for his
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Tsipras returns from US with positive sentiment but absence of tangible results
PoliticsForeign Policyupgrade of Greece’s fleet of F-16 fighter jets. Ahead of the visit, the Greek government had indicated that it was hoping Tsipras’s trip to Chicago and Washington would help raise awareness about the fact... proposals from US-based businesses. The prime minister’s talks with businessmen in Chicago and Trump’s
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Tsipras eyes review conclusion, insists SYRIZA patience will pay off
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Alexis Tsipras assured SYRIZA’s political secretariat on Monday that the government.... He argued that this justified the government’s strategy and that the coalition’s political opponents would be proved wrong again. He made a point of referring to New Democracy’s claims that extra
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Mitsotakis looks to unite New Democracy for fresh push
PoliticsGreek Politicsof sending the parcel bomb that injured former prime minister and central banker Lucas Papademos. Tsipras’s... that Tsipras’s party has eaten away at its rival’s considerable lead since the summer. However... and Antonis Samaras. Both are still MPs and it has been suggested that they are unhappy with Mitsotakis’s
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Eurogroup paves way for completion of third review, talks on debt relief
EconomyProgrammeMonday’s Eurogroup rubber stamped the staff-level agreement reached between Greece... the outgoing Eurogroup president Jeroen Dijsselbloem following Monday’s meeting of eurozone finance... average maturity, the smoothing of Greece’s repayment profile, swap arrangements and waiver of a step-up
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Thessaloniki rally highlights political complexities of addressing name issue
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat around 90,000 people took part in the protest against Greece’s neighbour using the name... also reflected the government’s inability to handle issues of such national importance. Mitsotakis’s... that he is treading on thin ice. His party’s official position over the last decade has been to support
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IMF sticks to reform, debt relief demands as programme role remains in doubt
EconomyProgrammeA meeting between Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and the International Monetary Fund’s managing... also underscored that the completion of the reform agenda and provision of debt relief by Greece’s...” but has not committed any funding to Greece’s third bailout, meaning that an instalment of 1.6
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