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Voting for brinkmanship while the real economy needs solutions

days of 2014. The election of the country’s president by parliament through an open roll call may..., servicing these sovereign obligations and financing the issuance of new debt will become ever more... access to financing resources on secondary debt markets for Greek enterprises at a time when liquidity

Between Scylla and Charybdis

and more than 210 billion euros of financing later, Greece is about to hold the referendum that machinations and backroom dealings averted back in 2011. Essentially, the moment Alexis Tsipras decided to call... financing needs, have been formally submitted to Parliament and, based on those, as a nation we have

IMF - Stand-By Arrangement—Review Under the Emergency Financing Mechanism

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Newsletter 80 - 01/07/2016

in Brussels this week. There, Tsipras reportedly issued a rallying call for social democrats not to allow... a referendum he did not need to call but whose result he promised to implement, Chancellor George..., the possibility of financial institutions relocating and numerous businesses holding off on investments, gives

Newsletter 97 - 25/11/2016

disclosed the targets submitted to the SSM, which call for a reduction in the 2015 non-performing loan.... Mitsotakis first issued his call on Monday at a book launch in Athens and repeated the message when... open. There has even been talk of her holding discussions with former leader George Papandreou about

Newsletter 269 -16/10/2020

a new Turkish exploration mission in the Aegean, just south of Kastellorizo, led Athens to call off... the suggestion, with Minister of State Giorgos Gerapetritis describing Tsipras’s call as “easy bravado... the ND leader’s right-hand man, cabinet secretary Takis Baltakos was holding secret talks with Golden

Newsletter 273 -13/11/2020

. The Health Ministry and the national doctors’ association put out a call for private sector doctors... sought an opportunity to call the prime minister to account on the record. In his opening statement... was heralded by Mitsotakis holding an international media conference on the island of Santorini

Newsletter 313 - 22/10/2021

. Meanwhile, 42-year-old MEP Nikos Androulakis – one of the youngest hopefuls – saw an opportunity to call..., the centrepiece of the interview was Tsipras’s call for the minimum wage to be raised to 800 euros.... He argued that New Democracy is holding back on its promise because “it does not want to upset a few