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PM set on sharing out more economic benefits in bid to recover support
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe government’s efforts to turn the media and public’s attention away from the Tempe issue, which dominated the agenda during the first quarter of the year, continues with the promise of more voter-friendly measures to come. After announcing 1.1 billio...
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Clarity over fiscal space clears way for next set of relief measures
EconomyMacroeconomyGreece’s fiscal outlook has become clearer along with the ability of the Greek government to implement more voter-friendly policies as it attempts to restore its relations with the electorate. The European Commission last week activated the national esc...
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Housing costs, food prices set limits to impact of tax cuts
EconomyThe Greek government’s efforts to shift the narrative and change its political fortunes are crashing against the realities on the ground as reflected in the frequent data releases from Eurostat and ELSTAT. Months of communications build-up around the Th...
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OPEKEPE, Predator and Ankara tension set tone for post-Easter politics
PoliticsGreek PoliticsA compressed, post‑Easter political week opens in Athens with the government facing simultaneous pressure on two domestic fronts - the OPEKEPE case files and the revived surveillance affair - while also navigating a sharp rhetorical clash with Ankara an...
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Seabed surveys for GSI set to pose next test in Greek–Turkish relations
PoliticsForeign PolicyThe planned resumption of seabed surveys for the Great Sea Interconnector (GSI) is rapidly emerging as the next major test in Greek–Turkish relations, as Athens prepares to restart work on the electricity link between Greece and Cyprus while rejecting A...
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Is VAT all you've got?
Agora/bar owners will pass on the savings to their customers. It is difficult to imagine they will follow
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Possibility of post-election breakup dogs Greek coalition
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPASOK leader Evangelos Venizelos continues to maintain the stakes for the May 25 European Parliament elections high as he keeps coming back to the possibility that the coalition will not be able to survive the vote. While Venizelos has backed away from setting the bar for the centre-left Olive Tree
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Cairo Declaration inches Greece closer to hydrocarbons goal
PoliticsGreek Politics, bar Turkey. Prime Minister Antonis Samaras is keen to follow suit so Greece could step up its search
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Papandreou seeks new, undefined role on political centre stage in Greece
PoliticsGreek Politicsobvious answer is that it could be a potential coalition partner for SYRIZA. All opinion polls bar one
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Tsipras goes to Brussels with opposition's backing, parameters of agreement
PoliticsGreek Politicsseeking the “start of a meaningful discussion” on making Greek debt sustainable. This sets the bar
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