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Appealing to dual audiences compounds mixed messages from SYRIZA
PoliticsGreek Politicsin the last days of the campaign. SYRIZA MP Nadia Valavani suggested on Tuesday that one of the party’s... is closer to SYRIZA’s leadership and is one of the party’s regular representatives in the media... the fact that the leftists are appealing to two different audiences. On one side lie its leftist
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The demand for Greek debt relief: Is the cart being put before the horse?
Agoraon one issue: Is the country’s accumulated public debt sustainable or does it need to be restructured... level in the past year than initially projected. Hence, one key condition of such a grand debt... debates is the fact that the IMF in Washington must certify two key assumptions. For one, that Greece
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Tsipras to meet Merkel amid search for political backing
PoliticsGreek Politicswith EU leaders rather than a technocratic one with eurozone finance ministers. The coalition... Draghi at the EU Council this week in a bid to reach the solution that Athens desires. One of the key... allows great flexibility on the primary surplus target for this year. One of Finance Minister Yanis
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Approach to protests, policing poses a new quandary for government
PoliticsGreek PoliticsDemocracy leader Antonis Samaras made one of his few public statements since the elections as a result... is certainly one where the conservatives feel they can eat away at the strong support for the government... that Panousis is one of the few members of the cabinet that is not a SYRIZA member. He was an MP
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Tsipras keeps IMF waiting, turns focus to MPs and opposition
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAlexis Tsipras is due to speak in Greek Parliament at 6.30 p.m. local time on Friday in one of the defining political appearances of his career and one that is likely to have a pivotal impact... billion euros in bailout funds were “much less painful.” The SYRIZA chief may also have one eye on his
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Greek negotiations: A marathon that has yet to run its course
Agoraits end game, one way or the other. To the spectator in the theatre of Greek and European politics... one is following on Twitter. Equally, extensive rebranding exercises have taken place in order... their negotiations strategy. For one, SYRIZA was given a convincing mandate for a change of course in Greece
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Yes to the referendum, no to the way it's being held
Agoraleader George Papandreou to hold one before signing the first memorandum of understanding with creditors five years ago. In late 2011, when Papandreou proposed holding one, Tsipras was against..., it has also prevented a credible opposition from emerging – one that is able to put forward
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First visit by quadriga to Athens leaves series of issues unresolved
EconomyProgrammecould be made possible next week he simply replied: “I don’t know”. Housing NPLS One of the key... proposal and the one that was legislated in mid-August imposing a uniform VAT rate of 23 percent on all... of the one-week extension last Friday on the imposition of the 23 percent VAT on private education
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Benefits and banana skins for Greece in EU-Turkey refugee deal
PoliticsForeign Policy· A commitment to take in one Syrian refugee directly from Turkey for each one returned from Greece's Aegean... seekers will take part and there is no quota set by Brussels to keep to. This could be one... to open now as it fears it may lose one of the points of leverage available to convince Turkey to back
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Davutoglu departure prompts concern about Turkish unpredictability in Athens
PoliticsForeign Policypolitical crisis in neighboring country as no one can make safe predictions on what the consequences... with the Europeans during negotiations. According to EU sources, the proposal based on the one-for-one (meaning that for every refugee returned to Turkey, one will be resettled from Turkey to Europe) was Davutoglu’s
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