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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... keep Greece in a bailout state which would defeat Samaras’s bid to break free ahead of time... painstakingly put in place over a period of about two years. It is wishful thinking to believe
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Newsletter 68 - 01/04/2016
encouraging signs during March, when the UNHCR put the number of arrivals at 26,222 by the 30th... George Papandreou began calling for new elections almost from the day that his party lost to New... was beaten again. Despite the economy entering recession, Greece being monitored for its oversized public
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Eurogroup suggests there is scope for pension cuts to be called off
EconomyProgrammethe discussion about the pension cuts began several months ago, sparked by comments from European Economic... with the argument that Athens has put forward, which is based on the better health of its public finances and the fact that the 2017 primary surplus target was beaten, a performance that the government
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Second round of local elections deliver worrying results for PM, glimmer of hope for opposition
PoliticsGreek Politics. However, he was soundly beaten by Dimitris Kouretas, a candidate put forward by centre-left PASOK...The results of the second round of local elections, held on Sunday, put a substantially different... positives to take away since ND’s strong performances in electoral encounters began in 2019. After
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Revenues at 4.77 bln in Oct, beating target for fourth straight month
Economyto the targets being beaten over the last four months, even though there is a steady increase in unpaid...The final budget execution to October confirmed preliminary figures, released by the Ministry of Finance (MoF) on November 13, showing revenues beating monthly targets by 763 million euros
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The men who would be prime ministers
Agorabegan calling for new elections almost from the day that his party lost to New Democracy in March 2004. He was undeterred by the fact that when the snap polls came in 2007 his party was beaten again... not been completed and the refugee crisis is in full flow? Being put in charge of these twin crises would
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Newsletter 85 - 05/08/2016
In a non-paper issued on Wednesday, the Finance Ministry clarified that budget revenues had beaten... the largest bailout ever put together for a country, the respinning of the unsubstantiated doubts about... published before Georgiou even arrived at ELSTAT confirms this. Greece began consistently running deficits
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Effort begins to secure SYRIZA support for deal with institutions
PoliticsGreek Politicswith Greece’s lenders began in earnest on Tuesday, when Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and Finance... inequalities. Tsipras pledged that any final agreement with the lenders would be put to SYRIZA’s political... of the trade-offs that the Greek government wants will only take place if the fiscal targets are beaten
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What would a clean bailout exit for Greece mean in numbers?
Agoraa clean troika break with the combined financing requirements over the next two years exceeding 20 billion... to have a sizeable impact on the budget. Bilateral loans The loans of the first program, aka Greek
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Some progress made as Greek programme review heads for break
EconomyProgrammeof the first review of the third programme. He break in the talks comes ahead of Catholic Easter this Sunday... and will continue over the (Catholic) Easter break.” Pension reform On pension reform, we understand
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