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Greece gets tranche and looks ahead to next tasks, including pensions and NPLs
EconomyProgrammeby the Greek government and stressed that the focus has now turned to the next stages of the ESM... of 1 billion. Eurogroup President Jeroen Dijsselbloem said that the pension reform has been moved... loans (NPLs). Although the second list of milestones has not been finalised and officially disclosed
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Tsipras turns attention to nervy party ahead of new measures
PoliticsGreek Politicshas to adopt in the coming weeks. Government spokesperson Olga Gerovasili was among those rejecting... of the parliamentary group on Tuesday is the first time that Tsipras has called his MPs together since he.... However, the coalition has to clear a number of obstacles before it can reach this promised land
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Broad agenda for Kerry's visit to Athens
PoliticsForeign Policyally, Greece has not jumped to its defence, especially since the issue of air space violations lies at its heart. Athens has long complained about Turkey’s frequent incursions into Greek air space. Greece has many times raised this issue either at an EU level as well as during talks in NATO, so
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SYRIZA fails to make any friends with new public sector wage grid
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe government has found itself under attack from all sides over the changes to the public sector... of the multi-bill of prior actions that Greece has to pass in order to receive the next 1 billion euros... some employees in the public sector will see their income trimmed. This has triggered a reaction from
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Unemployment among Greek doctors hits record levels
SocietyUnemployment among Greek doctors has reached record levels, with 27.5 percent of members of the Athens Medical Association (ISA) unemployed or underemployed, a conference has heard. Data presented... in Greece is well above the European average. While Greece has 6.1 doctors per 1,000 inhabitants, the EU
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Opposition party leader Leventis a coalition partner-in-waiting?
PoliticsGreek Politics-Independent Greeks coalition was sworn in three months ago, there has been speculation that the Union.... Leventis, once among the early members of PASOK, has spent three decades, mostly via late-night TV.... Leventis has been mostly equivocal in his stance, at times praising Tsipras and at other times being
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New Democracy counts down to Sunday's leadership vote
PoliticsGreek Politics. Recent polls put Meimarakis ahead but also show that Mitsotakis has done a good job in raising his... to the biggest weakness that Mitsotakis has in Sunday’s contest, which is that despite his father once..., and support from first round candidate and former health minister Adonis Georgiadis, Mitsotakis has
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Mitsotakis targets Tsipras, floating voters and populists in first speech to his MPs
PoliticsGreek Politicsfor the government’s proposed pension reforms, which Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos has been discussing with his eurozone counterparts over the past few days. He said that he has assembled a team... in September. Mitsotakis has also picked Cretan MP Lefteris Avgenakis, a New Democracy MP since 2007
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Mounting pension protests exert more pressure on coalition
PoliticsGreek Politicscontributions and immediate cuts to new pensions) it is no surprise there has been a reaction from... the negativity flowing from the measures that it has to adopt is for it to pursue its pledge to tackle... has already supplied Athens with 10,000 data sets for bank accounts held by Greeks in Switzerland
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After criticism over public sector jobs, gov't names new revenues chief
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe government’s approach to public sector appointments has drawn negative publicity in recent... doctors being forced to resign was raised. “Over the last year there has been no break with bad old... later and has, for the time being, been replaced by Stavros Lekkakos, who was previously non-executive
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