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Coalition in rush to wrap up pending bailout issues
EconomyProgrammefrom foreclosures. There is a considerable distance between the proposals put forward... than 70 percent of indebted households, it is clear that a climb-down from the Greek side would... fetch annual revenues of more than 200 million. Citing government sources, press reports note
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Greece, lenders reach deal to secure bailout sub-tranche and bank recap funds
EconomyProgrammeproperty value is set at 230,000 euros and the annual income would be no higher than 13,906 euros... sets of indebted households if the current commercial property value is lower than the initial... on all the issues related to the lending segments and NPL amounts that would be put on sale
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Tsipras seeks MPs' loyalty before next vote, leaves door open on future alliances
PoliticsGreek Politicsand PASOK than when mentioning To Potami or the Union of Centrists. The prime minister did not mention... Vassilis Leventis, Tsipras said he welcomed the proposals put forward by Leventis, even though... to social security contributions, rather than cuts to main pensions. “There should be no reduction
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Greece and the IMF: An everlasting love-hate relationship
Agoraare “unacceptably harsh”, as government spokeswoman Olga Gerovasili put it. It is true that on some issues, the fund is a harder taskmaster than the European lenders. “The fund’s position... intervention in the country’s debt rather than just tinkering around the edges. The fiscal and economic
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SYRIZA's long, slow march
Agoraaccepted that our influence on the long-term dynamics is going to be slower than expected,” he told... replacement rates), while also raising social security contributions. The plan put forward..., will be loath to accept anything more drastic than what it has proposed. At last week’s Eurogroup, though
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The men who would be prime ministers
Agorathan his colleagues, should call for Tsipras to resign and snap elections to be held. It came... not been completed and the refugee crisis is in full flow? Being put in charge of these twin crises would... before him, he has more than the same single string to his bow. *This article first appeared in last
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Amid risk of 2015 re-run, Greece searching for deal with lenders
PoliticsGreek Politics, rather than an attempt to rush through bills to show that the government is able to act... on and no agreement being reached in the build-up to the British referendum. Athens fears that everything will be put... perhaps being able to squeeze out a better deal than if the Europeans simply line up behind the IMF
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Study weighs up extent of Greek emigration during crisis
Society15 to 44, less than two in ten were women and the overwhelming majority were unskilled labourers... the most common destinations. Her findings put Greece fourth in the EU in terms of emigration..., the outflow represented more than 2 percent of the total workforce. However, over half of all
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Newsletter 81 - 08/07/2016
years. He also expressed the view that each programme review would be easier than the previous one. He... immediately rather than after the next general elections. When the bill was tabled, it appeared that 200... to put together an administration and a repeat vote is needed, it will be held under the law due
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Turkish unrest gives Greece the shivers
Agoraand antagonism have made Athens nervier than it needs to be, but there have been specific cases of Greeks... much more complex and edgy than they have been in recent times. The current government has made... behaviour more unpredictable, with less experienced officers being put in charge. Perhaps, though
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