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Moscovici tries to kill discussion of primary surplus targets as easing of capital controls cleared
EconomyProgrammeEuropean Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs Pierre Moscovici sought to kill off.... During a press briefing following a meeting with the Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos... the rights of the Greek people, the idea is to create a framework for a more competitive economy.” Meanwhile
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Tsipras and Mitsotakis cheer Macron win, hope to benefit
PoliticsGreek Politicsand the whole of Europe.” The Greek prime minister added that he would work closely with Macron to “change the direction Europe is heading in” and to fight off the threat of the far-right. Although... Macron ahead of the second round, stressing the need to keep Le Pen out of power. The Greek
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Athens set to profit from falling borrowing costs as yields drop ahead of review completion
EconomyFeaturesGreek borrowing costs have dropped significantly as the country nears the completion of what... percent. This came after the Greek government in May passed additional pension cuts and tax hikes.... The conclusion of the review kicked off the first of the Finance Ministry’s planned debt management
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Tsipras suffers setbacks in bid to build momentum ahead of MoU exit
PoliticsGreek Politicsexiting the third programme in August, recent developments may have put him off the idea. The option.... The public resistance to the Macedonia name negotiations, the detention of two Greek soldiers by Turkey and overall deterioration in ties with Ankara and the incident involving Greek-Russian businessman
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Sustained friction with Turkey reveals differing views, approaches in Athens
PoliticsForeign Policy, which allegedly flied at low altitude with its lights off near the Greek islet of Ro, in what was the latest example of sustained friction between the two countries. The Greek government appears... a different line again on foreign policy issues to the rest of the Greek government. The Prime
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Eurogroup agrees on significant debt relief measures for Greece
EconomyProgramme, paving the way for the final disbursement from the Greek bailout. The Eurogroup decided on Thursday... currently stands at 10.4 billion euros as part of its involvement in the Greek programmes. This is due... Mechanism instalment could be used to pay off the IMF early and reduce Greece’s funding needs
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Lenders set to keep coalition waiting for answer on pension cuts
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe Greek government is likely to have to wait until the December 3 Eurogroup until it finds out... submit the final 2019 budget to Greek Parliament by the end of November, preferably with the pension... the draft budget, which the Greek government is due to table in Parliament on October 1 and then send
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Athens and lenders search for budget compromise by Thursday's EWG
EconomyProgrammein Berlin on Saturday. The 1-hour unofficial meeting gave the Greek leader a chance to explain how.... The Greek side appears to believe that Tsipras came away from Saturday’s meeting with Scholz’s approval... fiscal projections at Thursday’s Euro Working Group (EWG), allowing the government to call off
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Lenders deem second post-MoU review over, Athens waits for debt relief
EconomyProgrammewas agreed between the Greek authorities and the institutions of a new primary residence protection... scope of NPL reduction, the Greek authorities have provided an updated target of clearing the entire..., the Greek authorities have committed to unifying in the second half of this year all laws related
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Newsletter 213 -07/01/2019
Greek Solution and radical left MeRA25, led by former finance minister Yannis Varoufakis, are right... for voters not to abstain, a message that capped off a week spent reiterating his party’s proposals... for Greek banks. He said this would be accompanied by an application for a precautionary credit
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