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Greek stocks on slide for third straight week
EconomyThe Greek stock market headed south for the third straight week, shedding 3.7 percent mainly due to a strong underperformance from banks, while volumes were subdued. The Eurogroup on Monday took stock of the progress made in the discussions of Greek authorities with institutions and gave a one week
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Fitch affirms Greece’s rating, projects GDP to contract 0.3 pct in 2015
EconomyFitch affirmed on Friday evening Greece’s rating at ‘CCC’, where it had been upgraded by one notch on August 18. The rating agency highlights that the risks to the programme remain high and completion of the first review is unlikely before January. In addition, Fitch stresses that the political
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A third of young Greeks would consider emigrating to escape economic problems
Societythe means to pay them. Over three in four Greeks (78 percent) were late paying least one bill late
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MP's departure ahead of multi-bill vote highlights pressure on coalition
PoliticsGreek Politicsfor Tsipras. Another concern for the prime minister is the Sakellaridis incident will not be a one-man
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Embarrassment for New Democracy as leadership vote called off due to IT problem
PoliticsGreek Politicsis the incumbent. One of his rivals for the party leadership, ex-Administrative Reform Minister Kyriakos
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Greece gets tranche and looks ahead to next tasks, including pensions and NPLs
EconomyProgrammeof Greece but was inactive for more than one year, establishment of a Credit and Wealth Bureau
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New Democracy to take second stab at leadership vote on Dec 20
PoliticsGreek Politicsnot lead to one candidate gaining more than 50 percent of the vote, a run-off vote between the two leading
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Broad agenda for Kerry's visit to Athens
PoliticsForeign Policybegin in the first quarter of 2016. Energy issues and trilateral cooperation One of the main issues
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Privatisation of power transmission firm ADMIE a key challenge among prior actions
EconomyProgrammeThe privatisation of the electricity transmission company (ADMIE) is one of the thirteen prior actions Greece has to implement by December 11 to unlock the next sub-tranche of 1 billion. According to the third memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed with eurozone partners in mid-August, the Greek
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Pension reform wrangle prompts Greece to consider going own way on contributions rise
EconomyProgrammethe necessary adjustment. This method was also the one highlighted by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras
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