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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... are presumably softer than those that would have been demanded by the troika, which wanted
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For better or worse: Greece's bailout exit deja vu
Agoratax rates and investment spending if targets were beaten. All crisis governments had first-hand... a fiscal gap of 1.1 percent of GDP, or 2 billion euros. This meant that if Samaras wanted to close
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Uncomfortable parallels: The Greek and British referendums
Agorainto voting “Yes” because it wanted to protect its interests. The same argument has been made in the UK... and debilitating Little English drug, nostalgia. The warm, crumbly, honey-coloured, collective “yesterday
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Bond issue decision expected as clock ticks down
PoliticsGreek Politicsdid so because the convict said that he had information about the Noor 1 case he wanted to share... Panos Kammenos’s intervention in the Noor 1 drug smuggling investigation. New Democracy still feels
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Tsipras tries to weather Kammenos storm, looks for poll boost
PoliticsGreek Politicswith specific business interests and wanted to hold an inquiry to prevent the whole truth about..., which was involved in a major drug smuggling case. Kammenos insisted that he was only in touch
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Top spots in judiciary spark new clash in build-up to snap elections
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe party, which was formed during the crisis as an outlet for moderate voters who wanted to move away... of the company and an ex-Health Ministry official who allegedly colluded in the overpricing of a drug. SYRIZA has
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Budget deficit of 6.38 bln in Aug confirmed; target beaten due to one offs
EconomyMacroeconomyThe budget primary balance was confirmed at a deficit of 6.38 billion euros in the first eight months of 2021, compared with a deficit of 5.48 billion in the same period last year, the final Finance Ministry (MoF) budget execution data showed on Monday....
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VAT and income taxes buoy revenue performance as primary surplus target is beaten in Sep
EconomyMacroeconomyThe budget primary balance in September was confirmed at a surplus of almost 6 billion euros, compared to a surplus of 52 million euros in the same month of 2022, according to the final Finance Ministry (MoF) budget execution data released on Wednesday....
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Greece stuck in the long tunnel of political transition
Agorait wanted in the EU ballot but failed to increase its share of the vote from the June 2012 general... their energies to providing against being injured themselves.” For Greece, the danger is that the longer
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Agreement creates array of political challenges for Tsipras, who must move fast
PoliticsGreek Politicsminster will probably have wanted a more specific debt relief pledge to play as his trump card upon...) are ready to support the agreement, there should be no danger of it not passing through Parliament. Instead
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