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  1. When the refugee crisis met the bailout review

    Agora

    After weeks of dancing around the issue, it seems that Greece and its lenders have started, even tangentially, to link the refugee crisis and the pending bailout review. So far, publicly the Greek government has not sought to establish a connection betw...

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  2. Draft budget sees stronger growth, fiscal targets being met
    Photo by Panayotis Tzamaros/Fosphotos

    EconomyMacroeconomy

    The Finance Ministry (MoF) tabled on Monday in Parliament’s Economic Affairs Committee the 2018 draft budget, which contains its fiscal estimates as well as the underlying macro assumptions. The MoF expects that the improvement in economic confidence du...

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  3. Greek deposits increase for seventh straight month, reaching 164 bln

    EconomyMacroeconomy

    30 billion euros in the year to date. Lower central nank funding primarily reflects the capital

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  4. Greek banks' Eurosystem funding rises again in November, up by 1 bln

    EconomyMacroeconomy

    of Greek banks’ central nank funding in the 11-month period started after the completion

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  5. Budget primary surplus at 3.16 bln in December, missing target for full year by 443 mln
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    EconomyMacroeconomy

    billion euros and was below target by 611 million. Net revenues came to 50.96 billion euros, under... expenditure came to 44.20 billion, below target by 611 million euros. Interest payments declined YoY

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  6. House of cards (The rise and fall of Akis Tsochatzopoulos)
    Photo by Can Esenbel [www.mundanepleasure.com]

    Agora

    , there was intense speculation about how “Akis,” as he was known to most Greeks – the civil engineer who had met... various ministerial posts – interior, defence, transport, public order, development, labour and public

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  7. Coalition caught between pleasing lenders and voters ahead of next troika review
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    and reform targets have been met. Prime Minister Antonis Samaras is adamant that he will not agree to a third... measures. The new Interior Minister Argyris Dinopoulos recently argued that his party would lose votes

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  8. New Greek cabinet a mixed bag, prompting hope and concern
    Photo by Myrto Papadopoulos [www.myrtopapadopoulos.com]

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    and on his first day as prime minister on Monday met with the Russian ambassador in Athens, who handed... government, to fill this position. His portfolio falls under an expanded Interior Ministry

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  9. Tsipras makes unpopular choice for president, with eye on political balance
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    with SYRIZA's left-wing but also reportedly met resistance from European Commission President Jean...In a somewhat controversial choice, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras chose former Interior Minister Prokopis Pavlopoulos as his party's presidential candidate yesterday. There was a mixed reaction

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  10. The education of Alexis Tsipras
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    Agora

    the final agreement at the Eurogroup. He met with Eurogroup chief Jeroen Dijsselbloem after the second... smattering of women in his cabinet, Tsipras chose former New Democracy Interior Minister Prokopis

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