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Review talks focus on out-of-court workout, jobs scheme and energy market
EconomyProgrammeon pending issues has not been reached. According to sources, the government remains firm in its... open is the threshold of overdue obligations that will be included in the mechanism. The government has... and that it may may be excluded from the fiscal outcome. According to reports, Greece has held talks
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Labour reforms, fiscal measures loom largest as Athens resumes talks with lenders
PoliticsGreek Politicsto medium-term debt relief from the eurozone, may be concluded in April. This has been interpreted..., Tsipras has not yet reached the point where he can sign up to an agreement that would be accepted by his... the right to implement “defensive” lockouts. Furthermore, the Fund has been advocating an increase
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From MoU exit to Grexit: Where next for Greece?
Agoraor two early this summer when Greece has to roll over the bond that it issued in 2014, when Antonis Samaras was prime minister. However, the timetable Tsipras identified last autumn has gone up... then, there has been much back-and-forth between the government and the institutions, with minimal
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Athens, lenders trying to put last pieces in place for technical agreement
EconomyProgrammeto reaching an agreement at technical level, there has been much speculation about how several issues... of GDP in 2019 and another 0.3 percent of GDP in 2020, as the government suggests. Athens has also... to 19-20 percent to ease the tax burden for low-income earners. Pensions The IMF has also demanded
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To Potami and PASOK battle it out for dominance of centre-left
PoliticsGreek Politics. The lawmaker’s move means that PASOK now has 19 MPs, two more than Golden Dawn in fourth place. More significantly, it is a further boost to the leadership of Fofi Gennimata. Although she has strong... that Gennimata has to worry about a challenge from within PASOK, even though some top officials, such as her
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Review nears conclusion, parties turn to political future
PoliticsGreek Politicsmemoranda it has to sign following lengthy negotiations over the new measures with the institutions... with an increasingly dismissive and distrusting public. According to Kathimerini, Tsipras also has five other... as part of the first bailout review and has since inaugurated a committee that is examining changes
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Govt hopes counter-measures, debt relief talks enough to escape multi-bill maelstrom
PoliticsGreek Politics. In its attempt to manage the message getting out to voters, the government has tried to shift... vote. New Democracy is sticking to its line that Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has agreed a fourth memorandum with the lenders but without securing any funding. The local media, meanwhile, has focussed
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Athens blocks EU statement on China amid growing economic ties
PoliticsForeign PolicyAthens has blocked a European Union statement at the United Nations that aimed to strongly... statement was due to the “unconstructive criticism against China.” The same source has underlined... that Athens has expressed scepticism about the way the EU has criticicised the human rights record
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Coalition's judicial wranglings provide opposition with line of attack
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe government has recently become embroiled in another clash with Greece’s judges and prosecutors... by French and German authorities. The decision could also mean that the government has to return millions in tax revenues and penalties it has collected from checks on tax cases that fall
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Newsletter 127 - 14/07/2017
Mechanism. The transfer of the latest bailout tranche means that Athens has 6.9 billion euros to cover... lenders to argue that Greece has made another step towards exiting the programme and returning... has to capitalise on the positive factors that have come together following the conclusion
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