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Challenges mount for Tsipras as pension reform leads into make or break period
PoliticsGreek Politicsfor Parapolitika weekly put the conservatives comfortably even further ahead of the leftists (23.6.... The greater concern for the government must be that the proposals it has put forward seek to keep reductions... and would seriously damage Tsipras’s credibility. Mitsotakis has promised that New Democracy will put
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Newsletter 69 - 08/04/2016
challenges for the coalition in this respect: the first is to put in place the necessary conditions... of the review. And, why would he want to risk being put in his place in such a public and embarrassing... to question the quality of some of the measures put forward by the Greek government. For example
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A Eurogroup deal that might be hard to stomach
Agorafinancing in two tranches - next month and in September - as the much-contested debt issue was put... issue was put firmly on the table. This could be interpreted as a victory for the Greek side... how much the IMF had to climb down from the position it put forward in Monday’s DSA, in which
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Crisis management policy: the sad lesson of the Greek case
Agorasituation, and fiscal tightening been put on hold, there would have been good opportunities to restore... established and unemployment put on a clearly decreasing path, modest fiscal tightening, if proved... of non-performance loans. This has yet to be put in place in Greece. If confidence in an economic
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Tsipras eyes connection with voters through changes to constitution, electoral system
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Alexis Tsipras has suggested that he may put planned changes to Greece’s... to hold an advisory plebiscite on the alterations that will be put forward. There is no provision... to be given the right to vote has been put on the table by Potami and New Democracy. By leaving
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Mitsotakis tends to internal disputes ahead of renewed assault on Tsipras
PoliticsGreek Politicswhen he was elected conservative leader earlier this year was to put the party’s dire finances... society that we can put the country in order as well,” he said from the new offices on Pireos Street... that Mitsotakis’s decision to start demanding snap elections and trying to put incessant pressure
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Newsletter 100 - 16/12/2016
moved up a notch again on Wednesday when the European Stability Mechanism revealed that it has put... Tsipras last week. The ESM said the debt relief process has been put on hold as the institutions.... Tsipras also managed to put New Democracy in an uncomfortable position. The conservatives had
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Tsipras wins domestic support for pension bonus but key struggles lie abroad
PoliticsGreek Politicsto 1.6 million pensioners and knowing that he has put main opposition party New Democracy... to be put on hold, was fairly popular. According to the survey, 50 percent of respondents had a positive... making a move that has some appeal to voters, Tsipras also managed to put New Democracy
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Differences over pension cuts stand in way of technical agreement
PoliticsGreek Politicsreform in return for this concession from the Greek government. However, Tsakalotos’s letter put this arrangement in question and the Fund apparently put the issues of mass dismissals and a lockout... being put to government MPs. Although it is possible that just a few days of technical work
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Ahead of vote, Tsakalotos appeals to SYRIZA MPs with positive message
PoliticsGreek Politicson Thursday, Tsakalotos sought to put them at ease about the reduction of the tax-free threshold... appears an attempt to steal Mitsotakis’s thunder and put New Democracy in the difficult position... Minister Alexis Tsipras has already planned to put opposition parties on the spot during the upcoming
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