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Newsletter 40 - 28/08/2015
will this damage SYRIZA? Will coalition partner Independent Greeks (ANEL) make it into Parliament? Will SYRIZA and ANEL have enough seats to continue their coalition? Will PASOK pass the 3 percent threshold... the last few weeks. The polls also raise doubts about whether ANEL would enter Parliament
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Complex privatisation fund faces tall order to reduce Greek debt
EconomyOn top of the fiscal measures yielding 3 percent of GDP by 2018, one of the key prior actions for the conclusion of Greece’s first programme involves the establishment of a new privatisation fund. This was envisaged in the Eurozone Summit statement of l...
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EP president visit and winding up of rail crash inquiry cast spotlight on rule of law concerns
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAn official visit to Athens by the President of the European Parliament Roberta Metsola gave Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis an occasion to hit back at the recent resolution passed by European lawmakers expressing concerns about the rule of law in Gr...
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A breakdown of the fiscal and structural reforms Greece hopes will unlock funding
EconomyProgrammeor completed involve the Piraeus Port Authority (OLP), Mutual Horsebetting Licence (ODIE) and regional airports... Fund (HRADF) that is on sale currently stands at 180 million. With regards to the ODIE tender, Greek
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SYRIZA tests PASOK waters with talk of possible alliance
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGreeks (ANEL) have been accompanied by a revival of the effort to explore the idea of Alexis Tsipras’s party working with PASOK in the future. Defence Minister Panos Kammenos, who leads ANEL, intervened... SYRIZA that perhaps the alliance between the leftists and the right-wing nationalists of ANEL has run its
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Political turbulence due to name deal creates election doubts
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGreeks (ANEL), was ousted from his party. This leaves the coalition with just a three-seat majority... with FYROM because the pact was not supported by the whole coalition as ANEL leader and Defence... will intensify about how long ANEL will be able to prop up the coalition. Given that the next elections
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New Democracy gains MP as new effort to launch nationalist party announced
PoliticsGreek Politicsranks in January, but more recently lost two Independent Greeks (ANEL) lawmakers due to the agreement... with the name deal and to appeal to voters who may have backed Golden Dawn or ANEL in the past. The decline of ANEL, both in terms of opinion poll ratings (it is hovering just below the 3 percent threshold
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EU elections in Greece: Applying a different scale of values
Agoracoalition partner, Independent Greeks (ANEL), with which Greek Solution has some similarities. ANEL went... career (at least for now) of its leader Panos Kammenos. Many of the 155,000 votes ANEL lost ended up... the last four years. In September 2015, around 580,000 voters backed Golden Dawn and ANEL. On Sunday
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Troika piles pressure on coalition by insisting on key actions to conclude review
PoliticsGreek Politics- Submitting to Parliament a law liberalising the natural gas market Clearly, this is a tall order... to complete range from finding ways to cover next year’s fiscal gap to ensuring the independence of its revenue collecting service. Some of the key actions that need to be carried out are: - Finding ways
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Budget deficit of 6.38 bln in Aug confirmed; target beaten due to one offs
EconomyMacroeconomyThe budget primary balance was confirmed at a deficit of 6.38 billion euros in the first eight months of 2021, compared with a deficit of 5.48 billion in the same period last year, the final Finance Ministry (MoF) budget execution data showed on Monday....
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