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SYRIZA seeks best path to next general elections
PoliticsGreek Politicsor postponed, thereby making the prospect of holding elections in 2019 a less daunting one. A scenario... is for the cuts to be put off for six months. This would allow Tsipras to avoid implementing the unpopular
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Mitsotakis warns party to be ready for elections as political contest intensifies
PoliticsGreek Politicswith the aim of catching the conservatives off guard. Speaking to New Democracy’s political committee... on Thursday, one of Mitsotakis’s key advisers, Makarios Lazaridis, referred to a “supposed exit” from
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Coalition focuses on relief effort after fires as Mitsotakis holds back on criticism
PoliticsGreek Politics. The accusation that his government is no better than previous administrations is probably one that Alexis Tsipras will be able to shrug off over the next few months as long as no clear evidence of deadly
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Alpha Bank makes loss of 52.9 mln in Q2, reaching profit of 12.3 mln in H1
EconomyBankingeuros QoQ, out of which 16.7 million represents a one-off effect of the retrospective application
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No imminent decision on pension cuts as Athens moves ahead with minimum wage increase
EconomyProgramme, but it could hold back on the release of the ANFA and SMP profits, one of the debt relief measures... indication so far from the government that it will call off the pension cuts if the lenders do
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Athens prepares 2019 draft budget amid pension cuts dilemma
EconomyProgrammeThe Greek government is set to take the next step in its efforts to call off next year’s pension cuts, when it submits the draft 2019 budget but finds itself in a delicate balancing act between... as Greek bond yields are higher than the government would like. It has been suggested that one option would
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As budget talks drag on, parties focus on inflicting damage via graft claims
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat the unresolved issues will be settled by mid-November. However, Athens has not been able to kill off, so... unless one of the member states digs in its heels and does not accept the scrapping of the pension cuts
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Athens and lenders search for budget compromise by Thursday's EWG
EconomyProgrammefiscal projections at Thursday’s Euro Working Group (EWG), allowing the government to call off... to suggestions that the lenders will insist that some of the pledges are dropped. One of those, a 10
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Newsletter 188 -21/12/2018
guerrilla group. A number of New Democracy officials made similar comments to the one by Alafouzos... starts to taper off as year-end approaches On an aggregate basis, full-time employment dropped to 45.8
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Kammenos antics put extra pressure on SYRIZA's minority govt
PoliticsGreek Politicselected with the party in question. ANEL currently has six lawmakers, but one was elected... minister was able to brush off the peculiarities of their relationship. Now that the coalition
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