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Tsipras and Mitsotakis speak to their MPs but address wider audience
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Alexis Tsipras and New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis addressed their parliamentary groups on Wednesday but both directed their words at a broader audience than the MPs in front... and To Potami to join New Democracy in an alliance designed to put pressure on and defeat SYRIZA. “We are facing
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Lesvos tragedy, Erdogan threat ratchet up refugee crisis pressure
PoliticsGreek Politicselement of the EU-Turkey agreement and removing them would put the deal at risk. However... it clear to those still in Turkey that they will get no further than the other side of the Aegean
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EU officials see Greek deal close, broad debt talks to follow
PoliticsGreek Politicsof the programme. “Appropriate measures must be taken but that doesn’t mean more than the ones... they should be set out now. “We have put ready for 2018 a number of additional measures,” he said
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Eurogroup grants short-term debt relief but leaves Athens fretting over fiscal targets and IMF
EconomyProgrammethat will be taken to achieve the target rather than the number of years the target will remain in place... threshold, further pension cuts and public sector reform in order to put Greece on the path towards
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Athens, Nicosia buoyed by EU role in Cyprus talks
PoliticsForeign Policythat Brussels intends to put further pressure on Ankara, according to EU sources. The EU is still... participated, lasted more than three hours and was dominated by the issues of guarantees and security
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Tsipras gets no encouragement from lenders, left to consider next move
PoliticsGreek Politicselections will have to become Plan A, rather than Plan B. For the time being, the option of quitting... relief measures to continue. The measures were put on hold last week after an intervention from
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Athens settles pension handout row, looks for review progress
EconomyProgrammeand the distribution of any excess. The debt relief measures were put on hold after Greek Prime Minister Alexis... that the government did not pledge anything more than what has been agreed so far. They said the letter clarifies
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Creation of unified social security fund poses new challenge for govt
PoliticsGreek Politics), which the government wants to put into operation in the coming days. EFKA will be set up... properly by the end of the year. EFKA begins its life with a deficit of more than 1 billion euros
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Schaeuble presents Athens with stark reality of programme without IMF
PoliticsGreek Politicsup a path to a much simpler agreement with the eurozone lenders but the fact that Athens has put... to secure more than 200/300 votes in Parliament so proportional representation can apply immediately
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The place where sanity goes to die
Agoradeliberately put off for a long time. In mid-October, when this review began, Athens came to the table... is holding up the conclusion of the review, rather than any significant procrastination on the Greek side
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