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Government caught between milestones and corruption claims
PoliticsGreek PoliticsA crucial and action-packed week begins for the government, which has been battered by controversy... Tsipras has expressed the hope that the review will be finished by the end of October. This seems... that has emerged over the last few weeks is the danger that his government is getting sucked
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The IMF and Greece's bitter pill
AgoraGreece has to stack more measures that the IMF believes will kill off demand and growth in the short... criticised over its involvement in the first two Greek programmes, the IMF has remained on the sidelines since the start of 2015, although it has been heavily engaged in talks. During this time, it has made
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After pension dispute with lenders, coalition faces domestic unease
PoliticsGreek Politicsout its excess surplus. New Democracy has been the most active in trying to compound the government..., who has a stronger connection with the party’s traditional right-wing supporters than conservative leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis, has had a more prominent role in the last few weeks – a sign
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Voters unconvinced by post-Eurogroup narrative, wait for growth
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat the coalition has ahead of it and suggesting that it will take much more for the prevailing... 12 months even though growth has been predicted for this year and the next, and all the talk after the Eurogroup from the government has been about boosting growth, unlocking investment projects
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Opposition pressures SYRIZA by refusing to support bills ANEL dodges
PoliticsGreek Politicsand ANEL has been iron-clad as far as MoU-related measures are concerned but has run into complications... a Muslim, rather than Turkish, minority in northeastern Greece and has refused to allow the union..., which has an ultra-conservative stance on social issues, will support the bill. The stance taken
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Coalition stresses positives, expects full support for multi-bill
PoliticsGreek Politicsamong left-leaning voters. As a result, it has been desperate to stress some of the more voter-friendly measures included in the draft legislation. The increase in child benefits has been top of the government’s list in its efforts to paint a more positive picture of what has been agreed
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After Washington talks, debt relief and fiscal remain main obstacles on way to MoU exit
EconomyProgramme-free threshold as well as cut pensions. It also has to avoid implementing any of the compensatory... settling the debt relief and fiscal issues, this also means that Athens has to progress with its..., the preparatory work for dozens of others has been done and they will soon be ticked off the list. It is however
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Athens and creditors place immediate focus on remaining key deliverables
EconomyProgramme. Greece has included these measures in its growth strategy, along with plans for the creation... much progress the Greek government has made in completing the 88 prior actions of the current review... be ticked off the list. One of the prior actions that has trouble the government most
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How 'clean' can an exit be? Athens snared between Rome and Berlin
Agorahas created costs and given rise to negative feedback loops in other countries. The “Italian crisis... newly appointed German colleague Heiko Maas how well Greece has developed. Meanwhile the latter’s... even consider such a move, capital markets would trounce Greek government bonds. A cash buffer has
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SYRIZA prepares for final bailout vote, seeks to highlight benefits
PoliticsGreek Politicshas yet to be completed, and the looser form of surveillance have been stressed repeatedly... will hope that as the government conveys this message to MPs and voters, some of the support SYRIZA has... to the prime minister. It suggests that the gap between New Democracy and SYRIZA has narrowed slightly so
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