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Troika returning to Greece but key decisions still months away
PoliticsGreek Politicscomments at Monday’s Eurogroup that any discussion about more loans for Greece has now been put off until... also been put off until the summer. “The debt has to be reduced. The question is who does it and how
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Eurogroup clears next bailout tranches for Greece, sets new goals
EconomyProgrammefor debt servicing and to undertake some one-off spending in 2014 to bolster social cohesion.” Following... involves one-off handouts to 1 million Greeks with low incomes and a temporary boost for members
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Return to bond markets to buoy coalition, may leave SYRIZA floundering
PoliticsGreek Politicsas the debt reduction talks have been put off until after the European elections even though the primary... ahead of the European elections on May 25, when New Democracy will be hoping to hold off SYRIZA's
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Local elections in Greece a precursor of European vote
PoliticsGreek Politics. If not, then the two leading candidates go into a run-off vote the following Sunday. The second... has been organised by local officials and opponents of the sell-off, a significant rejection
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Greek coalition overcomes concerns about "small PPC"
PoliticsGreek PoliticsCorporation (PPC) in the form of a smaller spin-off. Adopting the so-called “small PPC law” is one... that it would renationalise the part of the power company that is due to be sold off. It is certain, though
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Bid to form alliance for PPC referendum tests SYRIZA's political mettle
PoliticsGreek Politicsif they fail to find the votes they need now but it will be difficult to fend off the jibes from... the legislation for the PPC sell off. As it tries to create connections at the societal, not just political
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Public deficit and democratic duty
Agorathat is polished off and tossed to the public from time to time. This time it is claims of an unpublished... rates, staving off a financial assistance program. Lastly, to put the blame for Greece’s 2009 deficit
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National Bank reports 1.15 bln H1 profit on back of 1 bln deferred tax
EconomyBankingon August 28. This year’s results include one-off items of 1.04 billion euros largely due... that the remaining off-balance sheet DTA stands at 1.2 billion euros, implying there is further room
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How many NPLs in the Greek banking sector are also non-recoverable loans ?
Agoradown, or even worse, having to write off Greek banks’ investments in their troubled loan portfolio is a high-risk strategy. Any write-off would severely impact on domestic lenders’ quarterly profit
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Tsipras starts to flesh out SYRIZA's economic policy but questions remain
PoliticsGreek Politicswith the aim of the majority of Greek debt being written off. He also proposed that repayments... of their debt written off under SYRIZA’s plan. Also, when added to obligations to the state, loan payments
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