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IMF approves programme "in principle," repeats position on debt and reforms
EconomyProgrammeIn the early hours of Friday morning in Greece, the International Monetary Fund’s executive board... will receive credible assurances from Greece’s eurozone partners that will ensure the country’s debt...’s view Greece’s budget is more balanced in the long-run following the recent income tax and pension
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Macron visit gives Tsipras chance to build ties, refocus
PoliticsGreek Politics’ attention towards next year’s expected exit from the programme with the help of the early September visit to Greece by French President Emmanuel Macron. News of Macron’s trip surfaced in Greece earlier... will arrive shortly before the Greek premier is due to deliver the keynote speech at this year’s
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Coalition returns to work with one eye on centre-left leadership contest
PoliticsGreek Politicsbreak, with the government focussing on legislative activity ahead of the premier’s appearance... in the coming days. These two events remain uppermost on the government’s agenda at the moment despite... review. Tsipras is due to deliver the keynote speech at this year’s Thessaloniki Expo on September 9
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Macron arrives in Athens, kindling government's hopes
PoliticsGreek Politicsand the creation of a sizeable eurozone budget. They are proposals that have Greece’s backing. The current... Germany’s backing, Berlin sees the creation of a common budget in a very different way to what... of an idea to link Greece’s debt repayments to its growth rate and Macron has already shown that he
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of the voices dampening Tsipras’s target of a programme exit by next year. even though the Finance Ministry... Tzanakopoulos reiterated the government’s desire to make a clean exit next year. However, Finance Minister... compared to last year’s figure of 449 million euros. Greece’s current account balance came
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Onus on Athens to speed up review after German election result
PoliticsGreek Politicsgenerated by Germany’s election results. Dijsselbloem’s visit is seen as an opportunity to set... German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s CDU/CSU (33 percent) with the FDP liberals (10.7 percent) and the Green.... Greece is a warm supporter of Macron’s idea. In contrast, the Greens have been more sympathetic
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Athens braces for review headwinds due to IMF demands, Berlin changes
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe government’s focus on Wednesday appeared to be largely on developments outside Greece...) for the lenders before Greece’s programme concludes in August 2018. Athens and its European lenders do..., would be carried out earlier for Greek financial institutions. Dragasakis suggested that the IMF’s
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fatigue emerges The Finance Ministry (MoF) tabled on Monday in Parliament’s Economic Affairs... to keep meeting ever-increasing tax bills. The draft budget also outlines the Greek government’s... government considers an implicit guarantee that the eurozone member states will facilitate Greece’s
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Despite talks in US, review still looms large
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Alexis Tsipras goes into Tuesday’s meeting with US President Donald Trump buoyed... and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). As expected, Tsipras and his government used the prime minister’s meetings... from Tsipras’s meetings in Chicago. It should be noted that although the premier’s visit did seem
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Coalition seeks to remove review obstacles, turn up pressure on opposition
PoliticsGreek Politicsin the government’s mind at the moment. Despite encouraging words from European officials following Monday’s.... The government’s representatives insisted that primary residences would continue to be protected from... complication regarding the e-auctions, the coalition’s view is that the Eurogroup underlined
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