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  1. Review talks focus on out-of-court workout, jobs scheme and energy market
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    EconomyProgramme

    on 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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  2. Key obstacles remain in bailout negotiations for pressured govt
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    The government has proclaimed progress in the latest talks with the institutions, which were due... of GDP), for the Greek side to be able to adopt some of the fiscal counter-measures it has identified..., it should also be considered that the Greek government has every interest to talk up the progress

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  3. Labour reforms, fiscal measures loom largest as Athens resumes talks with lenders
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    to 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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  4. From MoU exit to Grexit: Where next for Greece?
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    Agora

    or 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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  5. Athens, lenders trying to put last pieces in place for technical agreement
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    EconomyProgramme

    to 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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  6. To Potami and PASOK battle it out for dominance of centre-left
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    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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  7. EU and Gazprom: A legal compromise that will shape Europe's natural gas landscape?
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    Legal

    the company with the right to claim a share of the re-sale profit. Furthermore, Gazprom has fully... beneficiary of the achieved compromise since Gazprom, by means of its above-mentioned commitments, has... in the gas market, the fact that the Russian company has accepted to waive damage claims against its

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  8. Review nears conclusion, parties turn to political future
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    memoranda 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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  9. Court ruling on pension cuts more political problem than legal obstacle for govt
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    this sufficient for their purposes. The Greek justice system, including the Court of Audit, has ruled cuts to pensions and public sector salaries unconstitutional in the past during the crisis but this has not prevented the measures being adopted as political and economic necessity has led to the judgements

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  10. Govt hopes counter-measures, debt relief talks enough to escape multi-bill maelstrom
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    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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