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PM’s rivals rally to farmers’ cause as protests continue across country
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe confrontation between Greece’s government and protesting farmers has become the dominant theme... the government’s appeal for patience has been met with scepticism, not only from opposition parties but also... of New Democracy’s past, intervened over the weekend with remarks that underscored the political
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Government’s growth ambitions meet RRF reality
EconomyMacroeconomyand from its own parliamentary group, which questioned openly the administration’s approach, the Eurogroup’s unanimous election of Greek Finance Minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis as its president... from abroad as Greece’s achievements draw attention from foreign media, officials, and the markets
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SYRIZA leader renews call for progressive unity as party’s drift to margins continues
PoliticsGreek PoliticsSYRIZA leader Sokratis Famellos has issued a renewed call for Greece’s progressive forces to set... is that the government’s declining popularity has not translated into gains for the opposition. Progressive parties.... In this context, Famellos’s appeal is not just a warning to fellow progressives, but also a strategy
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Athens sees many benefits in renewal of defence cooperation with Washington
PoliticsForeign Policyregarding Greece’s sovereign rights in the Aegean and the wider region. Indeed, the text of the MDCA... element of the agreement. They note that the US acknowledges and requests full respect of Greece’s... has not signed the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (Unclos), Blinken’s letter
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October revenues reverse earlier shortfall, annual primary surplus in sight
Economygovernment’s efforts to convince the troika about the credibility of its own forecasts regarding... payments by 50.1 percent compared to last year (mainly reflecting last year’s PSI), resulted... of 1.82 billion until July, yet with a consequent positive impact on current’s year’s fiscal performance
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Increased revenues push Greek budget primary surplus up to 2.28 bln at end of July
EconomyMacroeconomyGreece’s budget primary surplus widened to 2.28 billion euros in the 7-month period from 707... by the Ministry of Finance (MoF). Thursday’s data confirms preliminary figures published on August 13 and means that the primary surplus target was beaten by 1.48 billion euros. The fiscal performance
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This is where the last few days have left Greece and lenders
Agoraparty, New Democracy, in the wake of Monday’s agreement at the Eurogroup. Either that or Carnival... measures that Greece will have to adopt are likely to push Greece’s surplus well over the 3.5 percent... of the negotiations that will start in Athens next week. Austerity The government’s argument
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Sub-tranche, 2017 fiscal performance ticked off on first day of review talks
EconomyProgrammethat Athens settle 1.2 billion euros of state arrears in order to trigger the instalment’s disbursement... announced that the European Stability Mechanism’s board of directors is due to meet on Thursday... that Athens can apparently cross of the list, though, is the discussion about whether this year’s
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With eye on elections, Tsipras talks up public sector hirings
PoliticsGreek Politics, while remaining within in the 1-for-1 ratio of departures and appointments agreed with Greece’s... will be up for grabs ahead of next year’s national elections. This will be a useful promotional tool... under the constitution for the elections to be held next October, rather than when the coalition’s term
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Tsipras makes pre-emptive peace offering to next KINAL leader ahead of final vote
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAhead of Sunday’s run-off vote in the KINAL leadership election, SYRIZA’s president Alexis Tsipras has made an indirect appeal to the centre-left party’s next head to focus on attacking... with Greece’s creditors. Speaking in Ioannina on Thursday, Tsipras argued that SYRIZA has no enemies
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