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Tsipras gets full support in pension and income tax vote, moves on to Eurogroup
PoliticsGreek Politicsmeasures needed to lead to the completion of the first bailout, with all 153 of the government’s... the political sensitivity of the measures, none of the government’s 153 MPs had publicly expressed any clear... Tsakalotos to go into Monday’s meeting with his eurozone counterparts with two thirds of the fiscal
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Greek tourism: Hopeful yet uncertain for 2016
EconomyFeaturesa more mixed picture. Tourism represents one of Greece’s most important sources of revenue, constituting... Council also gives reason to be optimistic about Greece’s tourism prospects this year and in the long... of the major plus points working in Greece’s favour as far as holiday makers are concerned
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Tsipras, against all odds
Agora, analysts examining Tsipras’s conversion may choose instead to concentrate on the left-wing politician’s... to ensure there would not be any defections from the government’s group of 153 MPs. Late plans... replacement, meaning the government’s three-seat parliamentary majority remained intact. Tsipras’s
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Greek banks on cusp of improved liquidity conditions
Agoraassessment by the institutions of the first review of Greece’s second economic adjustment programme... on June 22 relates to Greek banks’ participation in the ECB’s second series of targeted longer-term... and the interest rate is the same as that for the ECB’s deposit facility, i.e. -0.4 percent. During the conference
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Lew highlights geopolitical dimension of debt relief discussion on visit to Athens
PoliticsGreek Politicssector reforms. Lew’s comments underline the concern in Washington about the possibility of the Greek... state of Italy’s banks. However, there was also a geostrategic element to the position taken by Lew..., when he suggested that the recent turmoil in Turkey following Friday’s failed coup made it even more
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Justice can't be blind to facts in 2009 deficit case
Agorarevolves around a longstanding dispute over Greece’s deficit data in 2009, which made it clear that the country’s public finances were off track and defined the magnitude of the fiscal adjustment that Greece had to make. Georgiou has been accused by former colleagues of doctoring Greece’s figures
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Mitsotakis tends to internal disputes ahead of renewed assault on Tsipras
PoliticsGreek Politics, hopes will be a move with high symbolic, as well as practical value. One of Mitsotakis’s first pledges when he was elected conservative leader earlier this year was to put the party’s dire finances in order. He subsequently announced plans to move from New Democracy’s plush offices on Syngrou Avenue
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Mitsotakis looks for fresh start as PASOK and Potami ponder way forward
PoliticsGreek Politicsto convince Greeks that New Democracy is changing. The former minister’s key goal is to convey the message that he represents a break with the party’s clientelistic past, while also attacking the government... the coalition’s constant tampering with private education, law and order, and healthcare, especially after
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Athens pleased with UN talks, Cyprus deal seen taking time
PoliticsForeign PolicyThe Greek government believes Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’s participation in the recent 71st... was fairly satisfied with the results of meetings aimed at attracting investment. As far as Greece’s debt... Vice President Joe Biden. The Greek leader stressed that the country’s lenders have to help Athens
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Tsipras freshens up cabinet, looking for balance with party and lenders
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGreece’s new 48-member government will be sworn in on Saturday after Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras... Ministry to the Interior Ministry. Skourletis had recently been openly opposed to the government’s... moved him to what is considered the country’s largest, although not necessarily most prominent
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