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Greece prepared to move on pension, labour reforms but details to be decisive
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAlexis Tsipras on Wednesday may prove a pivotal moment in the new government’s relationship with its....” Thursday’s communiqué also indicates that Tsipras’s government is considering crossing one of its... measures might be adopted. It suggests, though, that the government’s plans for raising the minimum
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Primary cash surplus reaches 1.05 bln at end of April
EconomyMacroeconomyGreece’s central government primary cash surplus narrowed by 20.9 percent year on year (YoY..., according to the Bank of Greece (BoG). Note though that last year’s figure included one-off revenues of 940 million euros related to the payment of preference shares by Alpha Bank. Similarly, this year’s
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SYRIZA caught in push and pull between voters and members over deal
PoliticsGreek Politicsduring a meeting of SYRIZA’s political secretariat on Thursday night, when Deputy Prime Minister Yiannis Dragasakis came under pressure from a number of MPs over the government’s negotiating tactics... that “the government’s red lines are also the red lines of the Greek people.” It also raged against Greece
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Close call on IMF payment puts Tsipras under more pressure at home, abroad
PoliticsGreek Politicsexposed the fraught state of the Greek government. The most surprising aspect of the weekend’s... be noted most is that – according to reports – the majority in SYRIZA’s political secretariat... positions in the course of negotiations with lenders. The revelation regarding Tsipras’s letter
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As talks enter final stretch, Tsipras addresses broad, varied audience
PoliticsGreek PoliticsMonde on the same day. The content of Tsipras’s article gives the impression that his government... of making some excessive demands, while he paints Greece’s position regarding pension and labour... to pass some of the responsibility for achieving an agreement back to Greece’s partners and rectify
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Lenders put together proposal that may leave Tsipras struggling
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe details of the proposal Greece’s lenders are set to put to Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras... to convince his party to support an agreement. Following Monday night’s meeting in Berlin, it appears... of pension cuts and putting any discussion of reducing Greece’s debt on the back burner would make
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Greece: After a deal, work on a solution
Agoraa deal to a vote. Merkel frets about the wider risks of Grexit – the stability of the euro, the EU’s standing, but also the geopolitical implications of weakening a state at Europe’s crucial south... to prevent Grexit. The CDU is with reason dubbed the Kanzlerwahlverein – the “Chancellor’s supporters
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Greece and lenders talk at cross purposes, head for crisis summit
PoliticsGreek Politicson Monday to come up with a solution. Monday’s meeting was called by European Council president Donald Tusk... aimed at closing the gap with lenders were not taken on board at Thursday’s meeting, in which... and an automatic deficit brake, while Varoufakis also expressed frustration that Athens’s proposal regarding
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Tsipras needs to sign a deal, but which one?
Agorato do a deal with the country’s lenders but few of them until now suggested he should sign... critical phase of this government’s negotiations with its lenders, Tsipras seems to be considering... that most analysts believe will be deeply damaging for the country. It’s what he calls the “Great
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Greek talks go down to the wire as IMF raises major objections
PoliticsGreek Politics. Ahead of the premier’s meeting with European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker, European... billion euros until the end of 2016 will damage economic recovery and put Greece’s ability to meet... more spending cuts from Greece. The key comment from the government’s briefing was later published
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