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Tsipras faces heavy lifting to finalise deal and get party approval
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat the Greek prime minister has ahead of him should not be underestimated. The two measures the coalition...The Greek government has wasted no time in rolling out its strategy for ensuring the passage.... This leaves Tsipras with a difficult period to navigate before he can convincingly argue that he has secured
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Tsakalotos appears but gives little away about negotiations with creditors
PoliticsGreek Politics. The coalition has sought to obscure the fact that the trade-offs it wants to implement, such as reducing... between SYRIZA and ANEL. The latest friction has come in the form of comments from SYRIZA MP Nikos Fylis. The former education minister has questioned the country’s defence budget and suggested
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Tsipras focuses on debt relief goal as review resumes in Athens
PoliticsGreek Politicswas that he understands the concerns but that the government has to take this step to get Greece out..., with the vote in Parliament due to be held in the next three weeks. For some months now, Tsipras has... that the government has received from the European Commission its draft Memorandum of Understanding
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The wit and will of men
Agora, which has been pending since 2012, when a Eurogroup in November of that year first suggested.... The government has already reduced its GDP forecast from 2.7 percent to 1.8 percent... a Eurogroup with its back against the wall has happened numerous times during the crisis and always
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PM charts course to third term with promises of more handouts
PoliticsGreek Politicsfor a third term in 2027. The prime minister stressed that the government has a full four-year programme... Konstantopoulou’s populist Course for Freedom party, which has surged to second position in the polls... protests earlier this year, New Democracy has been arguing that the opposition consists of protest parties
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New Greek cabinet a mixed bag, prompting hope and concern
PoliticsGreek Politics, have been well received but the bakgrounds of the new defense and foreign ministers has caused... Tsipras has indicated that he wants a steady hand at the helm as his government embarks on talks... at the University of Texas. Varoufakis has been involved in drawing up several proposals for tackling
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Newsletter 87 - 09/09/2016
. In addition, Fitch notes that the government has sufficient buffers to last them into the second... of Greece (BoG) said on Thursday that the ECB has lowered the emergency liquidity assistance (ELA) ceiling... eurozone bailout programme in mid-August 2015, the ECB has trimmed the ELA cap by 38.2 billion. NBG
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Name and shame
Agora. Also, the temporary name under which FYROM has been participating in international organisations...-in-the-sky by their politicians for so long that distinguishing fantasy from reality has become too... the cracks within his own party on this divisive matter. The conservative leader has had to tread
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Newsletter 366 - 20/01/2023
PoliticsPM turns focus to far right ahead of electionsKyriakos Mitsotakis has set his sights...” (Greeks) has been interpreted by the opposition as a cynical move by Mitsotakis to corral the right-wing vote. The government has hinted at the introduction of an amendment that will close any loopholes
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Newsletter 424 - 24/05/2024
for ND and PASOK has edged up by just 0.1 point, while SYRIZA has seen its backing increase by 0.4 points. Support for ultranationalist Greek Solution has fallen by 0.6 points, which will be welcome news... air”. He has been arguing in recent interviews that narrowing the gap with New Democracy
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