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Mitsotakis starts to put New Democracy on election footing
PoliticsGreek PoliticsNew Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis has told his party to start preparing for general elections in the near future and has described the upcoming vote as a moment for “catharsis and rebooting... recovery has boosted SYRIZA’s chances. As a result, the centre-right party has to be prepared for both
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Tsipras suffers setbacks in bid to build momentum ahead of MoU exit
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe bailout, clinching a debt relief deal and witnessing the start of an economic recovery has long...” narrative Tsipras and his ministers have stuck to has prevented SYRIZA from continuing to close... on Monday that Tsipras has now given up on the idea of snap elections later this year and is focussed
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Tsipras fends off election rumours, Mitsotakis talks up moderate qualities
PoliticsGreek Politics2019. In reality, though, nothing has changed as far as the government’s thinking on elections... officials it is thought, who prefer for the vote to be put off until next year so that the economy has more time to recover. Tsipras has not yet taken a decision regarding which option he favours. His mind
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Greece’s unstable and confusing tax system failing to deliver results
EconomyMacroeconomyA report by the diaNeOsis research and policy institute has painted a troubling picture of Greece’s... a significant problem when considering that Greece has the worst levels of collection for overdue debts..., to the point where Greece has the third highest level of insurance contributions among EU states. From
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Newsletter 164 -08/06/2018
in the third programme’s financial envelope to buy out the loans that the IMF has made to Greece. The failure to reach a deal has increased the chances of the Fund not activating its programme for Greece... future has raised some questions about how convincing Greece’s exit from the bailout
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Coalition plays down sub-tranche delay, opposition steps up pressure
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe Greek government played down on Friday the news that the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) has... targets being met. An ESM spokesman revealed that there has been progress on electronic property auctions but that Athens has not yet provided data that shows the expected amount of state arrears
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Fallout from Macedonia name deal sparks turmoil for coalition and opposition
PoliticsGreek PoliticsNew Democracy’s decision to table a censure motion in Parliament has triggered significant... a no-confidence vote has to be held by midnight. The conservatives justified their move by arguing... Democracy has fuelled speculation that two deputies in Defence Minister Panos Kammenos’s party
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Fourth review nears conclusion, clearing path for debt relief agreement
EconomyProgrammewill not be completed by Thursday but that all sides will accept that the government has taken all... that the EFKA social security fund has at Attica Bank. According to reports, around 60 prior actions have been... of this surveillance has not yet been confirmed but the “enhanced supervision” should be in place for at least
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Lenders set out post-MoU framework with aim of securing reforms
EconomyProgrammecommitments Athens will have to keep to in the years to come. According to what has been published.... It also has to ensure that new state arrears are not created. The government has pledged to reduce.... In terms of social security and welfare, Athens has to complete the creation of the EFKA pension fund
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The tie that binds
Agora.) The frivolity of it all was a poke in the eye for anyone who has suffered over the last eight years Greece has been under its three adjustment programmes, or memorandums, and mired in one of the worst economic crises on record, but was in complete keeping with a government that has often approached
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