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SYRIZA's left wing ups pressure on Tsipras but PM retains authority for now
PoliticsGreek PoliticsDespite enduring a testing time during the meeting of SYRIZA’s central committee over the weekend... is forced to abandon SYRIZA’s key election pledges. Lafazanis said during the weekend's discussion... of clash that could put Greece’s position in the euro in question. Tsipras also won by a clear
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Reopening public broadcaster poses multiple challenges for Tsipras
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe government’s plan to reopen state broadcaster ERT is proving far from straightforward... of Parliament’s ethics and transparency committee. The session was unusually long (lasting close to 10 hours..., Konstantopoulou is becoming a real thorn in Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’s side. She is pushing the boundaries
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Lenders dismiss Greek proposals but SYRIZA also ups pressure on Tsipras
PoliticsGreek Politicsspending cuts and structural reforms after the European Commission appeared to dismiss Athens’s... said on Wednesday that the “ball is clearly in the Greek government’s court” after suggesting... counter-proposals in areas there are differences. It is clear that from the Greek government’s
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Greece and lenders fail to bridge their differences in Brussels
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe weekend, meaning attention will now turn to Wednesday’s meeting of the European Central Bank’s general council and Thursday’s gathering of eurozone finance ministers in Luxembourg. Greece has... to achieve them. Given that Dragasakis and Pappas are not only two of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’s key
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Newsletter 32 - 26/06/2015
lenders go into Saturday’s crucial Eurogroup with a substantial gap to bridge. Below we set out... to Thursday’s meeting of eurozone finance ministers. Starting from VAT, the institutions demand net... the majority of SYRIZA’s radical left, bar a few isolated defectors, decide to remain loyal
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An impossible choice
Agorafunding institutions were discussing the consequences of the expiration of Greece’s current financial... government’s last minute requests to extend for a short period of time the former programme while... that the government’s non-payment to the IMF puts their country in a league of its own in Europe
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Strengthened Tsipras shows willingness for deal with lenders after "No"
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe first indications following a convincing win for the “No” vote in Sunday’s referendum... wants to safeguard national unity. The main points of Tsipras’s speech were that he is seeking... Pavlopoulos on Monday morning. These meetings are fairly rare and it is the first during Tsipras’s
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Tsipras gets his way over September congress, gains breathing space from SYRIZA rebels
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAfter sitting for around 12 hours on Thursday, SYRIZA’s central committee granted brief... bailout. Shortly after midnight the 201-member committee backed Tsipras’s propsal in a vote by show..., Thursday night’s ballot result is a small victory for Tsipras and gives him some vital breathing space
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Election Watch: What are Greeks voting for?
Agorasink or float after its recent leadership change? Will Evangelos Meimarakis’s homely style manage to revive New Democracy’s fortunes? Will Potami, the self-styled exponent of the new and uncorrupted, grab more of the public’s imagination? Then, there are the most existential questions. Can Alexis
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Now comes the really hard part
Agorait was a smart political manoeuvre, apart from one problem: What happens when people realise what’s... has highlighted Greeks economic plight. According to Credit Suisse’s annual Wealth Report, average... of Greece’s population at risk of poverty or social exclusion in 2014 reached a record high of 36
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