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Some tasks, risks left as Greece takes another step to exit from post-bailout surveillance
EconomyProgrammeto be delivered by the end of 2021. The report also notes that the Greek authorities have expressed their intention to deliver all outstanding items by mid-2022. One more review is scheduled... was in power. As long as the Greek authorities have shown a good working relationship with the institutions
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Lesvos fire highlights growing threat to government from refugee crisis
PoliticsForeign Policythe increasing problems that Greek authorities are facing in dealing with the refugee crisis, which... because of the lengthy legal process and the reluctance of Greek authorities to recognise Turkey... and poor conditions at the camps on the eastern Aegean island have added to the tense atmosphere
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Who benefits from Greece’s return to the markets?
Agorathe rush to snap up the new five-year Greek bond was reminiscent of a stampede. In the same week that Pakistan returned to debt markets after an absence of more than seven years, the first Greek bond... with portfolios devoid of Greek debt. What does this mismatch tell us? Clearly
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Greece and lenders talk at cross purposes, head for crisis summit
PoliticsGreek Politicsafter eurozone finance ministers were unable to make any headway, and with Greek deposit outflows continuing at pace. Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis appeared annoyed that his new proposals... of what was proposed by the Greek side. There are references to the creation of a fiscal council
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Newsletter 415 - 08/03/2024
Article 16 of the Greek Constitution, which states that only institutions that are public legal... of Greek students leaving to study abroad and creating a market for private higher education... to circumvent Article 16 of the Greek Constitution. Education Minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis accused
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Newsletter 75 - 27/05/2016
rise in the event that Greek politicians or the public view the conditionality attached... as representing the Greek elites. Central government debt eases Greece’s central government debt eased... the course of the Greek crisis the task of finding whose goals have been met at the Eurogroup has been
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Newsletter 226 -01/11/2019
. The Greek side argues that the drop in Greek bond yields over the last few months means that In clinching... of how rapidly Greece’s borrowing costs have dropped and how demand for Greek debt instruments has... percent and cover ratio was 1.76 times, attracting 1.54 billion euros. The appetite for Greek debt has
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After Merkel, Samaras faces immediate challenges on domestic front
PoliticsGreek Politicson Friday, Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras is back in the thick of things in Greece, where his... was not a ringing endorsement for the Greek prime minister or his country’s prospects but it was probably... the Greek prime minister also wanted to emphasise that he intends to hold the eurozone to its
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The Cyprus bailout is different, not only due to the bail-in
AgoraThe Cyprus programme as agreed in March 2013 was different from the Greek and other eurozone.... There are distinguishable divergences from the Greek memorandum that allow us to identify the change... Christofias between 2008 and 2013. In general terms it seems similar to the Greek second bailout
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Troika inquiry: talk to the organ grinder, not the monkey
Agora’s judgment on specific reforms – such as dismantling Greek workers’ bargaining power in the labor... of borrowing binge: by Greek politicians, Irish bankers, Spanish property developers, Portuguese... stops” in Europe. Capital turned and fled for home, cutting off liquidity for one periphery country
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