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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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Government looks to review visit for nod on tax package
EconomyProgrammesupportive of its fiscal policies. The Greek authorities also hope that converging views on GDP..., but the institutions approached them with some scepticism. The Greek side estimates that the new... aspirations is the incorporation of the profits from Greek bonds in the ANFA and SMP schemes in budget
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Banks highlight areas of concern in talks on NPL scheme
EconomyBanking(APS), codenamed Hercules, that is meant to help Greek systemic lenders reduce the stock of NPEs... during recent weeks, when Greek bankers let it be known that they had been kept in the dark over... a close eye on developments and ensure its progress. Greek bankers argue that they should have been
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Newsletter 234 -10/01/2020
agenda in Greece. Although the trip involved the exchange of many pleasantries and the Greek government... his first tour of Washington as Greek PM. Judging by the public remarks made by Trump before his.... Mitsotakis tried to present the Greek positions on the matter but his effort to receive a clear
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Mitsotakis enjoys growing popular backing at home, as efforts intensify to defuse border crisis
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAs skirmishes between migrants, Greek and Turkish border forces continue, this week kicks off.... The efforts come against the backdrop of a solidifying of the Greek position in favour of closed..., the crisis on the Greek-Turkish border appears to have gifted Kyriakos Mitsotakis and New Democracy
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Greece expects evidence of Turkish willingness to talk as Maas visits Athens, Ankara
PoliticsForeign Policythe Greek continental shelf has made Maas’s mission even more difficult. In response to the move by Ankara... in the Eastern Mediterranean, as well as a reference to a Greek-Egyptian maritime demarcation deal. The Greek... diplomats. Athens expects For the Greek side, the extension of Turkey’s NAVTEX is proof that Ankara
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