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Prior actions completed, coalition now faces up to first review and contentious reforms
PoliticsGreek Politicsalready set the bar high as it has ruled out cuts to main pensions, which means that the bulk... protested en masse in Athens against these proposals, leading the government into the uncomfortable position
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Healthy eating and smoking on decline in Greece over last five years
Society. Seven out of 10 persons said that when they visited a café/bar or restaurant/taverna they saw people
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SYRIZA to suggest switch to proportional representation, schedules congress for Oct
PoliticsGreek Politics, though, Tsipras would have to convince all the other opposition parties, bar Golden Dawn, to support
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Eurogroup grants short-term debt relief but leaves Athens fretting over fiscal targets and IMF
EconomyProgramme. When everything is added up, it appears that the Eurogroup came in some way under the bar
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Public sector evaluation and hirings in the spotlight
PoliticsGreek Politics, the Administrative Reform Ministry is now thinking of adopting a directive that would bar any civil
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Tsipras eyes four-year term but snap polls an option after MoU exit
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe government, bar some senior SYRIZA figures that think calling elections early next year might
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Multi-bill passed, sub-tranche released but debt relief expectations dwindling
EconomyProgrammeExpectations for the debt relief package that may be agreed at next week’s Eurogroup are being kept low and the interventions that are due to be announced look set to fall below the bar set by the Greek government. All the attention of Greece and its lenders is shifting towards the debt relief
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Greece-Russia spat intensifies but Athens hopes worst is over
PoliticsForeign Policycriticised Athens’s decision to expel two Russian diplomats and to bar two other people from entering
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The absent are in the wrong
AgoraThe French say: “The absent are always in the wrong.” The saying is quite correct, at least as far as the unification process in Europe is concerned. Greece has been a member of the European Union for almost four decades but, sadly, the parochialism of the Greek political elite (bar a few
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Encouragement for Tsipras ahead of key vote on name deal
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGreeks (ANEL) will oppose the pact with Skopje (possibly bar one or two of the nationalist party’s
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