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Government comes out swinging as tense week, building up to Tempe protests, begins
PoliticsGreek Politicsby showing that they are willing to stand up to defend their party. The health minister set the tone... as the government tries to hit back against its opponents via the media. Another is Interior Minister
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PM continues to mull reshuffle in shadow of new Tempe inquiry
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPM Kyriakos Mitsotakis is set to announce the names of his new cabinet this week, in a gesture which he hopes will allow him to focus anew on the business of government following the failed... Theodoros Skylakakis and Interior Minister Niki Kerameus. The second change which is seen
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Amid publicity storm, Tsipras publishes 'Ithaca' and fuels speculation about new journey
PoliticsGreek Politicson the book and Tsipras is unlikely to die down given that the ex-PM is set to embark on a countrywide...-Interior Minister Alexis Haritsis, who also refused. He insists he tried to ensure continuity
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Opposition demands assurances of non-involvement in Iran conflict
PoliticsGreek Politicsmajority of 162 votes, these provisions will not take immediate effect. They are set to apply... parliament approved the relevant provisions in the Interior Ministry's bill by a margin exceeding
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Tsipras makes unpopular choice for president, with eye on political balance
PoliticsGreek PoliticsIn 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... plans to push ahead with legislation to protect primary residences from foreclosures and to roll back
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Tsipras targets PM, looking to gain traction from scandals
PoliticsGreek PoliticsInterior Minister Stelios Petsas’s best man and that Justice Minister Kostas Tsiaras’s wife had, until... would introduce a new insolvency law to protect main residences, giving more rights to homeowners. He
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After Eurogroup, hard work, more pressure and sliver of hope for Greece
PoliticsGreek PoliticsDijsselbloem, though, set out several key factors that will define the relationship between Greece... Dijsselbloem also explained that the two sides would first have to agree on a complete set of reforms... that the matter of whether Greece will be able to issue more T-Bills is still open and stressed that the final
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Newsletter 86 - 26/08/2016
highlighted the need for Greek authorities to “set the record straight and avoid misinterpretation... debt. Greek government bonds (GGBs) as well as T-Bills remained unchanged in Q2. GGBs amount to 59.62 billion and T-Bills stand at 14.87 billion euros. Bailout loans now account for almost 69 percent
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Clearer roadmap for completion of third programme emerging
EconomyProgrammethat there is no set date for the start of the programme which the IMF has approved on principle... are that Greece achieves the reform targets that have been set, and the European partners agreeing to the debt... to issue the first 12-month T-bill since 2010, aiming to raise 1 billion euros with a coupon of 1.5
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Tsipras hammers out dividing lines, trumpets battle with 'elite'
PoliticsGreek Politicsalso used the doubt over the accuracy of opinion polls to illustrate his speech as he set out... in rebates. “We don’t have big publishing and TV groups on our side, we don’t have entangled interest on our... a crushing defeat for SYRIZA, which would set the conservatives on their way to a comfortable victory
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