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Coalition braces for Sunday demo, ponders impact on cooperation
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe government is bracing itself for Sunday’s demonstration in Athens over the Macedonia name issue...’s partner, Independent Greeks (ANEL), is backing the demonstration and continues to reject the use of the name Macedonia by Greece’s neighbour. An impressive show of opposition on the streets
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Edgy atmosphere ahead of new protest over Macedonia name issue
PoliticsGreek PoliticsA frenzied atmosphere is developing ahead of Sunday’s protest over the Macedonia issue as talks.... One of the people claiming to be helping organise Sunday’s rally also called in a social media post... against the name “Macedonia” being used by Greece’s northern neighbour. A group claiming to be made
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Athens takes cautious approach to Turkish words and actions
PoliticsGreek Politicsin a statement of telling Greeks lies about what happened off Imia and restated Ankara’s belief... this week is not likely to be a one-off occurrence. Turkish military operations in Syria’s Afrin... the country’s southern border. Athens has decided to respond to the unrest in the Aegean
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Greece reaches for its pills
Agorawitnesses, criminal complaints against the country’s prime minister and serving ministers, claims... of this was condensed (if that is the right word for something that last more than 20 hours) into Wednesday’s... executive wheeling in a suitcase to the prime minister’s office in order to hand over a bundle of cash
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Tension between coalition and political opponents here to stay
PoliticsGreek PoliticsEven though Greece’s lenders are turning their attention towards debt relief and the programme exit... as the panel’s chairman. Reports concerning the alleged scandal and its supposed links to some of the ex... to associate SYRIZA’s two main political opponents with corrupt practices of the past, this strategy
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Capture of soldiers adds to complexity of Greek-Turkish relations
PoliticsForeign Policy: “We need to respect Turkey’s judicial process. I can’t predict anything with certainty but what I...’s government spokesman Bekir Bozdag on Monday. Diplomatic sources do not exclude the possibility... could end soon with the return of the two soldiers. Turkey’s Chief of General Staff, Hulusi Akar
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Athens identifies drivers for growth as it draws up strategy for next years
EconomyOne of the integral parts of the final review of Greece’s third programme is a growth plan that the authorities will have to agree with eurozone partners and will act as the country’s own policy... plan that is currently in the works were included in a memo issued by Greece’s Alternate Finance
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Greek banks' NPL selloff gathers speed
EconomyBankingof discussion that negotiations keep returning to, that of the bad loans plaguing the country’s banking system. While Greece’s main players might not see eye to eye on everything to do with the future... to Sweden’s Intrum. Intrum offered 3 cents on the euro of loan principal sold, which translated into 45
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Soldiers' ongoing detention troubles Tsipras, riles Kammenos
PoliticsGreek Politicsin Turkish prisons. His comments caused unease within SYRIZA’s ranks. Although it should be pointed out that a statement by the prime minister’s office a few days earlier had suggested that the Turkish... in connection with the failed July 2016 coup, which suggests that Erdogan is in no rush to respond to Athens’s
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PM livens up ministers over fourth review as debt relief proposals are put together
EconomyProgrammebe needed, Tsipras tried to stamp his authority on the cabinet at Tuesday’s meeting. “I will not accept... to his department’s programme commitments with a heavy heart. The delays in awarding a contract... focus only on the coalition’s tasks and not the benefits he would like to highlight. Debt relief
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