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SYRIZA tries to look forward but struggles to escape past
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe two-day meeting of SYRIZA’s central committee, which concluded on Saturday, did not produce any... the government’s failed bid to hold a tender for TV broadcasting licences last year. The Council of State..., with the starting price for each permit being 35 million euros. Tsakalotos’s comments were also
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Could reforms have prevented Greece's economic collapse?
AgoraThe Greek economy’s collapse in the 2010-2013 period has become legendary. Greece had already been... the country’s fate was sealed and it began the first of three successive adjustment programmes... and Q2 2011. The deepest drop was posted in Q3 2012, when it fell by 32.8 percent. Greece’s exports
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SYRIZA tests PASOK waters with talk of possible alliance
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe coalition’s efforts to dampen any speculation about a rift between SYRIZA and Independent Greeks (ANEL) have been accompanied by a revival of the effort to explore the idea of Alexis Tsipras’s... to Greece’s programme, a matter on which Kammenos’s party has proved a steadfast ally for Tsipras. Now
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Mitsotakis pledges tax cuts and reforms, hopes for lower fiscal targets
PoliticsGreek PoliticsIt was New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s turn to step into the spotlight... the lenders to lower Greece’s fiscal targets. Taking to the stage a week after Prime Minister Alexis... the institutions to lower Greece’s primary surplus target to help ease the tax burden on taxpayers
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Review demands put spotlight on Greek banks
EconomyBankingreaffirmed the Fund’s position on Greek lenders. “We are saying that it's critical.... In its staff report following Greece’s request for a precautionary Stand-By Arrangement in the summer, the Fund expressed again its reservations about Greece’s financial sector, saying that “staff
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Newsletter 136 - 20/10/2017
that is tangible at this moment. The two key themes of the trip were to highlight Greece’s geostrategic role... government’s case. Also, the US officials he met, including Trump and Vice President Mike Pence, stressed Greece’s importance as a stable ally in a troubled region. However, the downsides for the Greek leader
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PM hopes to avoid stumbling blocks amid numerous outstanding review actions
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe coalition’s biggest fear is that after poring over next year’s draft budget and this year’s fiscal data... are the 2.4-billion-dollar deal to upgrade Greece’s F-16 fleet, which was announced last week by US... that it is in line with Greece’s fiscal commitments. The government has played down its importance, insisting
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Tsakalotos stands ground on taxes, finalises social dividend plan
PoliticsGreek Politicsbudget to defend the government’s fiscal choices, which have often provided the opposition parties with cause to attack Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’s administration. Tsakalotos rejected accusations from New Democracy that this year’s primary surplus, which is expected to exceed the 1.75 percent
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Tsipras rallies MPs, marks dividing lines with opposition
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe summer, Tsipras pounced on reports that name of New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s wife... Democracy’s position regarding the Paradise Papers was “defensive” and wondered whether this was because the conservatives were in some way implicated. Wednesday’s reports suggest that the coalition was well
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Will centre-left let go of past to grasp change?
Agorabilled by those involved as the rebirth of the country’s beleaguered centre-left. To make matters worse... last year but the process collapsed at the last minute. This year’s effort has been hampered... who will lead the effort to unite the country’s centre-left forces has the potential to be one
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