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Opposition parties seek renewal as Tsipras visits Washington
PoliticsGreek Politicsnot have the spotlight just to himself. Hours after Tsipras set off for the US, where he met... of the MoU and adopting policies targeted at helping the least well off. Centre-left Greece’s centre-left
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Countdown begins for multi-bill, coalition eyes minimum wage increase
EconomyProgrammesign off and the compliance report could be prepared for the Eurogroup. However, some reports... for low-income pensioners that will be worse off next year as a result of reductions to the EKAS
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Multi-bill on way as Athens aims to complete third review by Jan 22
EconomyProgrammethat around 70 have yet to be ticked off. Some require ministerial decisions to be issued, rather than... ideally like to round off the fourth review before the end of March. This would be ahead of the results
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Despite fresh uncertainty, Tsipras insists focus is on four-year term
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe government can successfully pull off an exit from the programme successfully without the support..., the current mood within the government seems to be to hold off on a decision as long as possible. The fact
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The race to reduce Greece's bad loans
EconomyBankingdown bad loans in the first quarter of the year. Excluding off-balance sheet items, the non... (Q1) results showed that the pre-write off NPE stock fell by 304 million euros, bringing it to 32.2
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EC sees relief measures securing debt sustainability despite poorer growth, market access prospects
EconomyProgrammein the latest baseline scenario is seen levelling off at 1 percent in the long-term, which translates... percentage points per year to level off at 2.2 percent by 2025. Market access assumptions were also revised
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Loss of MP upsets coalition plans to build on positive momentum
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Alexis Tsipras had been hoping to build on the positive momentum of the recent Eurogroup agreement this week but instead his government is trying to fend off speculation about whether... to kill off any rumours concerning him by issuing a statement in which he insisted that he would
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ESM releases final tranche of third bailout, boosting cash buffer ahead of exit
EconomyProgrammereminder that some of Greece’s lenders are not comfortable with the government trying to put off... calling off the pension cuts if Greece meets its fiscal targets even if this view does not seem
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Tsakalotos states case on pension cuts in bid to overcome lenders' reluctance
EconomyProgrammepercent of GDP reduction in pension spending to be called off. The government believes that its... Greece’s economic argument but the concern that agreeing to call off the cuts will create political
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Budget primary surplus at 3.16 bln in December, missing target for full year by 443 mln
EconomyMacroeconomy5.34 billion euros, off target by 1.01 billion euros. The MoF noted that the shortfall was mainly due... billion euros. The negative balance in the aggregate period was off target by 481 million euros
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