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Coalition wins confidence vote but gets little encouragement for presidential ballot
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe coalition sailed through Friday night's confidence vote, gaining the support of all of its 155 MPs, but failing to attract any others to its camp, with only two lawmakers voting "present" and 131 against the government. The party leader's speeches were broadly along the expected lines
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Athens steps up diplomatic efforts amid ongoing friction with Ankara
PoliticsForeign Policythe Turkish vessel Oruc Reis was a minor one. The ship most likely sailed into the area of Greece’s
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Government launches new round of legislation with diaspora vote bill
PoliticsGreek PoliticsHaving set out his government’s policy goals for the next four years, and sailed through Saturday’s confidence vote, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s focus is on the new administration’s first legislative interventions as he seeks to build on the momentum from this summer’s electoral contests
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Government focusses on cost of living with economy bill, push for lower ferry prices
PoliticsGreek Politicsowed. Although the government sailed through the two electoral encounters this summer and has
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Storm impact and ferry death engulf political agenda
PoliticsGreek Politicsit a “criminal act”. The captain and three crew members from the Blue Horizon ferry, which sailed from
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PM attempts to regroup, shift focus after testing week over Tempe crash
PoliticsGreek Politicsof the no-confidence vote which the government sailed through. It remains to be seen if the public has been
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Q1 gg primary cash balance shows 2.5 bln surplus but 2014 arrears grow
EconomyMacroeconomyloans by 2.07 billion and EFSF/ESM/IMF loans’ redemptions of 611 million. The gross debt structure
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Primary budget surplus 923 mln short of target in Jan as revenues fall by 18.4 pct
Economyto 622 million, slightly above the 611 million target. One of the first interventions announced
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Reported widening of revenue shortfall in Feb as liquidity worries persist
Economyin January and stood at 622 million, slightly above target of 611 million. Lower income from
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Newsletter 114 - 07/04/2017
last year. On the flipside, the respective figure for the state budget fell by 611 million to reach
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