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Parliament starts process of probing Greek debt and MoUs - further division likely
PoliticsGreek Politicsby the committee. However, the key role played by Konstantopoulou in the process, rather than Pavlopoulos’s tacit... proceedings. The committee’s aim is to audit Greece’s debt and establish whether any of it can....” The weekend’s proceedings were notable for the fact that Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos
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Surveillance hearings in Athens and Brussels highlight contrasting approaches to issue
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat energy price inflation in Greece is higher than the EU average, attributing... into the proceedings of the parliamentary inquiry have been dominated by procedural disputes, which... proposed by SYRIZA and PASOK that prompted their MPs to walk out on proceedings. While ND agreed
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Opposition fails to make inroads in spyware hearing as denials continue
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat is indicative of political rather than security concerns, and pointed the finger at Dimitriadis... as his whereabouts were unknown. According to leaked reports of the proceedings, Dimitriadis denied... the insistence on keeping the proceedings confidential amounted to a tacit admission by the government
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MEPs agree to keep Tempe file open despite government's efforts to conclude inquiry
PoliticsGreek Politicsbe given time to complete its investigation. However, in the current climate, with more than 70 pct... Parliament has agreed to keep monitoring proceedings to ensure there is a full and proper probe into the crash, New Democracy MPs voting a few days later to wrap up proceedings will create a stark
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Newsletter 77 - 10/06/2016
will be paid by 2018, four years earlier than the initial agreement. Government sources note that the state... billion, 2 billion higher than the 6 billion envisaged in the initial agreement. In addition, 80... of an opinion being issued on the same day, rather than in a new session on Friday. The article noted
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Name and shame
AgoraMitsotakis the younger should know better than most that playing short-term domestic political games... such as the one in Thessaloniki, labelling them nothing more than the populist manifestation of fringe... even sharper mid-air manoeuvres than the Greek air force F16s he commands. Few eyebrows would
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More changes needed to unlock private sector's potential, report says
EconomyFeaturesdominated by small firms, rather than larger, productive companies serving international markets... added affected micro firms (less than ten employees) the most but also impacted small businesses... at around 80 percent of the nominal value in 2008.” While this has led to large firms’ (more than 250
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Is the Greek coalition about to cry over fresh milk?
PoliticsGreek Politicschange in legislation comes as a result of Athens reportedly agreeing to adopt more than 75 percent... of the 300 seats in Greek Parliament so this is threatening to grow into a general storm rather than... of six Golden Dawn MPs means that a maximum of 148, rather than 151 votes, would be needed to pass
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What kind of poll win does SYRIZA need to eye snap elections?
PoliticsGreek Politicscomments from the SYRIZA camp had suggested that the party would need to gain more than the combined... because Elia is not expected to gain more than 6 or 7 percent. However, there will be at least three other... vote rather than the first. In the last local elections of 2010, voter participation stood at almost
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Newsletter 28 - 29/05/2015
of the more than 90 billion euros in deposit outflows before June 2012 were sent offshore, while... the second had an even lower outcome, with less than 150 million euros of deposits returning to Greek banks, generating less than 10 million in revenues for the authorities. Economic sentiment falls Greece’s
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