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ND, SYRIZA put squeeze on KINAL as centre-left party's poll rise continues
PoliticsGreek PoliticsFollowing its recent impressive rise in the opinion polls, centre-left KINAL finds itself at the centre of political machinations as both New Democracy and SYRIZA attempt to impede its advance, which has created doubt about when the next elections will ...
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Series of failures provide opposition with platform to put pressure on PM
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAlthough it is still largely absorbed by its leadership contest, which is not due to conclude until early September, recent events have prompted SYRIZA to take a more aggressive stance regarding Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s premiership. The left-wing party was...
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Athens not put out by Turkey-Egypt rapprochement, but watching closely
PoliticsForeign PolicyAthens is assessing the results of the historic meeting between Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Wednesday, in Ankara. The two leaders discussed ways to further repair the long-frozen ties between the...
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Greek funding needs add to pressure in talks between Athens and lenders
EconomyProgramme. The most recent reports by the European Commission and IMF put revenue from asset sales at 2.2 billion... in Hellenic Petroleum and 65 percent of Public Gas Corporation (DEPA) have been put on hold... Greece and its lenders but these talks continue against a backdrop of pressing funding needs
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Greece's fiscal, debt and funding goals as set out at Eurogroup
EconomyProgrammeof the main economic parameters put forward by the Greek side during these discussions. In the first... going forward, which is sufficient under reasonable assumption, to put the debt trajectory... of additional T-Bills to cover funding needs, which he argues would not raise the debt amount
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The wit and will of men
Agorasome clarity about what interventions will be made in the coming years so the country’s debt is put... of them could be put at risk by further procrastination over the debt issue. Wrong turn If events take... to be put on hold. Athens saw these two developments as vital to its ultimate goal of lowering
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Promises and challenges of Greece's "green new deal"
EconomyFeaturespledging to put the country among the global leaders in the transition to a zero-carbon economy... and Climate (abbreviated in Greek as ESEK), which amends the plan put forward by the previous government... levels (compared to 32 percent in the original plan), which would put Greece above the central EU
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October revenues reverse earlier shortfall, annual primary surplus in sight
Economyto the targets being beaten over the last four months, even though there is a steady increase
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Two hurdles left for coalition this year before bigger challenges in 2014
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGreece’s coalition has two more hurdles to clear before it stumbles over the finishing line at the end of the year, exhausted and battered but not quite yet beaten. The first challenge is to pass the new property tax, which unites previous disparate levies in one charge, through Parliament. The new
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First round of local elections leave Greek politics finely balanced
PoliticsGreek PoliticsDemocracy’s incumbent Vassilis Michaloliakos was beaten into second place by independent Yiannis Moralis
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