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  1. Tsipras ponders delaying snap elections until debt relief talks start
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    Greek Parliament is expected to vote on the country’s third bailout of around 85 billion euros with international lenders on Thursday after the negotiating teams appeared to reach an agreement on Tuesday morning. Thursday’s vote could prove decisive in ...

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  2. Tsipras and Kammenos vow to stick together until further notice
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras left for New York on Sunday to attend the United Nations General Assembly, but not before publicly making up with his coalition partner Independent Greeks (ANEL) leader and Defence Minister Panos Kammenos following apparent...

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  3. Lenders set to highlight reform delays, leaving fiscal gap concerns until after elections
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    EconomyProgramme

    The European Commission is due to publish on Wednesday the third enhanced surveillance report, highlighting that recent fiscal interventions by the government have cast doubt over whether this year’s primary surplus target will be reached. The report is...

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  4. Between Scylla and Charybdis
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    Agora

    and is not even willing to engage in discussions with the Greek government on its request for a new, third programme until after the referendum. If we actually needed to find adults in the room, it is hard

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  5. Holding out for a (reformist) hero
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    Agora

    abroad. However, his relationship with European counterparts did not break down irreparably until 31... at the same time, Samaras abandoned all pretences and packed his cabinet full of party hacks that could engage

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  6. Tsipras puts proposals to socialist leaders, resumes bailout talks ahead of review
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    in Thursday’s meeting near Paris is the latest attempt by centre-left leaders to engage with him... becoming a contentious issue politically, as until now the government has mostly been targeted

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  7. Cyprus talks resume, putting spotlight on Greece and Turkey amid tension
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    PoliticsForeign Policy

    the auspices of the UN Special Adviser Espen Barth Eide, Anastasiades and Akinci agreed to re-engage...-lateral meeting, something that had been a pre-requisite for Nicosia and Athens until now. Secondly

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  8. SYRIZA sets out strategy for European vote with eye on general elections

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    of discussion with Tsipras’s party, leaving the prime minister to engage with either individuals from... for Tsipras to wait until the end of the government’s four-year term and call elections in September

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  9. Mitsotakis mixes old hands and technocrats to stamp reformist bent on cabinet

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    ) until last month and was previously a political aide to Yannis Stournaras when he was finance... was characterised by a reluctance to engage in open conflict with entrenched ND factions, notably

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  10. Athens angling for tougher EU stance on Turkey ahead of summit

    PoliticsForeign Policy

    to engage in any meaningful discussion. Athens accepts in principle the start of exploratory talks, which... European governments that until now appeared sceptical adopting sanctions against Ankara

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