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Tsipras forges ahead with referendum as lenders hold back, wait for result
PoliticsGreek Politicsunless the vote takes place. With both sides now pushing for the plebiscite to go ahead, the only... that lenders would now “simply await the outcome of the referendum” despite a new effort to clinch... but given that they would happen in late July or early August, this leaves open the possibility that Greece
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Newsletter 35 - 17/07/2015
Platform, which has now come out publicly in favour of a return to the drachma, and the bulk of its... domestic banks being open for business. What this experience has exposed so far is revealing in terms... to start game planning now. Their list of prior actions could include calls for capital increases
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For Greek banks, it's business as unusual
AgoraNow that the rather bizarrely termed “bank holiday” has come to an end in Greece after three weeks... without domestic banks being open for business. What this experience has exposed so far is revealing... advised to start game planning now. Their list of prior actions could include calls for capital
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Tsipras lays down gauntlet to SYRIZA rebels, proposes September congress or members' vote
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Alexis Tsipras issued an open challenge to the dissenters within SYRIZA on Thursday.... It would be safe to assume that even more of those delegates would now back the position of SYRIZA's... for a September congress or the Left Platform's call for the meeting to happen now. The prime minister
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Newsletter 44 - 25/09/2015
to live in tents out in the open once autumn sets in. Tsipras decided to retain the caretaker minister... now, the terms of the third bailout have been somewhat of a vague concept. In the weeks ahead, MPs... Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos, is now the main faction within SYRIZA. The idea, though
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Newsletter 51 - 12/11/2015
the first bank to open its book-building process to qualified investors for an equity raising of 1.6 billion... a downward revised 24.9 percent in July. It was the second successive monthly fall and the figure has now... leader revealed that he now believed it was wrong to allow Greece into the EEC and that Schmidt had
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New Democracy bewildered by ballot failure as Tsipras solicits consensus
PoliticsGreek Politics. The two options that seem to be open to the conservatives are to quickly find a new way to hold... will only build. New Democracy now faces a damage limitation exercise in the short-term... for his coalition, which now has just 153 of 300 MPs. When meeting President Prokopis Pavlopoulos
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Greece steps up effort to bolster relations with Iran
PoliticsForeign Policyargue that Greece may now feel somehow justified by its choice, especially after the successful..., which allows the country to maintain friendly and open relations with Iran, the Palestinian... is a thorny issue in relations between Athens and Tehran and now Iranian officials have demanded
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Mitsotakis, Konstantopoulou intending to test Tsipras's mettle
PoliticsGreek Politicsof direction from New Democracy and its leader since the statements being issued by the party are also now... of saying he would be open to working with other parties, including PASOK, even though its leader Fofi... spoke at To Potami’s congress. It appears that New Democracy’s strategy will now revolved around two
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Locating Europe's pulse in the refugee crisis
Agorafences have gone up. This has not resembled the progressive, open and self-confident EU that many... Auschwitz. Rather than helping refugees build a new life, Klinowski now finds himself being... is that in the search for its heart, a pulse has been located. The challenge now is to get the rest
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