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Tsipras weighs up options amid concern about mired talks
PoliticsGreek Politicsof concluding the second review. Last week’s pledge from Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to distribute more..., where he is expected to set out more proposals regarding the government’s island policy. Having... needs. Review stand-off The International Monetary Fund’s apparent decision to give up pressuring
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Newsletter 101 - 23/12/2016
that Germany raised the most serious objections during this week’s Eurogroup Working Group... their concerns about the Greek government’s handouts and seeking pledges that these were one-off... himself puzzled about why Tsipras might consider Berlin to blame for Greece’s difficulties. Clearly
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Athens eyes fiscal compromise to complete programme review
PoliticsGreek Politicsfew weeks. In an interview with Kathimerini published on New Year’s Eve, Finance Minister Euclid... all sides to move on. Questioned about the International Monetary Fund’s demands for upfront... of concession on Greece’s part. The finance minister said that if the IMF’s projections
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Newsletter 103 - 20/01/2017
with Greece’s lenders. Although the coalition had already hinted at the option of extending the fiscal... minister stressed again the danger of not concluding the review to the IMF’s satisfaction, arguing... and explains why he seems to have focussed the government’s efforts on trying to reach an agreement
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Tsipras facing more media intervention claims after changes at newspaper
PoliticsGreek Politicsdevelopments at Greece’s best known media group, Lambrakis Press Group (DOL). Opposition parties questioned the government’s motives this week after DOL announced on Tuesday that a former SYRIZA MP... Moulopoulos held editorial positions at To Vima, one of DOL’s newspapers, in the past, the timing
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Athens gears up for deal with lenders, pending news from IMF
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAll eyes in Athens are on Monday’s meeting of the International Monetary Fund’s executive board, although there are few expectations that it will result in a clear-cut decision regarding the IMF’s... and keeping the limit on mass dismissals where it is as the government’s two key objectives
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Greece hopes promising fiscal, economic data will help its cause in review talks
PoliticsGreek Politicsquestions about the Greek government’s recent comments regarding there being no need for any new... support for Greece’s position but also arguing that none of the lenders advocated further austerity... by the International Monetary Fund’s European Director Poul Thomsen in an interview with German newspaper
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Tormenting Greece with a distorted picture
Agoraof reaching an agreement with the country’s lenders, thereby ensuring more funding, staving off a default and securing Greece’s place in the eurozone is the trigger for these manic episodes... and some local commentators were screaming at the government for supposedly delaying the review’s
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Squeezed at home, ministers return to Brussels to look for deal with lenders
PoliticsGreek Politicsof Friday’s Eurogroup in Malta. Despite several teleconferences and phone calls between key officials since... through the inclusion of Greek bonds in the European Central Bank’s QE programme and culminating in debt relief and exit from the bailout in the summer of 2018. Tsakalotos’s trip to Brussels is seen
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Tsipras looks to build political capital from 2016 overperformance
PoliticsGreek PoliticsELSTAT’s confirmation on Friday that the 2016 primary surplus was well in excess of the agreed... that it is measured for the purposes of Greece’s programme) against a target of 0.5 percent was immediately... as a result of ELSTAT’s announcement, government spokesman Dimitris Tzanakopoulos suggested
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