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Tsipras turns down last-minute Juncker offer, plans to stand aside if 'Yes' wins
PoliticsGreek Politicsby the European Commission to reach a compromise and has suggested that he could stand down if Sunday’s... of Sunday’s referendum. The prime minister’s office was quick to let journalists know... it clear that they view Sunday’s ballot will be on whether Greece should remain in the euro or leave
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Final push for "Yes" and "No" campaigns as referendum result hangs in balance
PoliticsGreek PoliticsRallies for both the “No” and “Yes” campaigns ahead of Sunday’s referendum are due to take place... and society ahead of the vote. All indications are that Sunday’s result will be in doubt at the last... that a “No” vote would not spell the end of Greece’s eurozone membership but would allow him to resume
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Tsipras denies Grexit plan, has work to do to keep Greece in euro
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe euro, he would not have made a renewed effort to reach an agreement after Sunday’s referendum... by Greece’s European lenders. Following the stern warnings from European Commission President Jean... a positive spin on Greece’s predicament by the government suggests the beginning of a process to prepare
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Tsipras suffers serious knocks in prior actions vote but emerges on his feet
PoliticsGreek Politics’s lenders but almost 40 SYRIZA MPs failed to support the measures, leaving Prime Minister Alexis...’s result is the highest support that any of Greece’s three bailouts have received over the last... and continue to govern with the aim of securing bridge financing from Greece’s lenders
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Eurobank acquires Alpha network in Bulgaria, kicking off round of consolidation abroad
EconomyBankingthe acquisition of Alpha’s branch network in Bulgaria by Eurobank’s subsidiary in Bulgaria, Postbank..., Eurobank’s gross loans in Cyprus stand at just 1.58 billion, since the bank does not have a retail network but 8 business centers. In contrast, Alpha’s subsidiary in Bulgaria is the fourth largest
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Reshuffle of limited scope, ambition suggests elections on horizon
PoliticsGreek Politicsrevenues. Alexiadis’s appointment appears to be aimed at boosting the fight against tax evasion, presumably..., the leader of the Left Platform, which was purged from the government after the leftist faction’s members... out the fire. His removal from the Energy Ministry perhaps makes Tsipras’s task of privatising
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First TV debate does little to fire up election contest
PoliticsGreek Politicsfor the participants to stray from the script or for viewers to get a fuller picture ahead of next Sunday’s vote... improvised moments of the night, he proposed to Tsipras that they meet at SYRIZA’s headquarters... deterioration in Tsipras’s relationship with the economist, which has also involved Varoufakis firing
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If it's stability you're looking for...
Agora’s political future and how stable it will be than it has answered. Repetition, it seems, has failed.... While many have questioned Alexis Tsipras’s honesty, in this election campaign he never disguised his... in the regeneration of Greece’s centre-left. However, a closer inspection of PASOK’s results shows
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IMF sees Greek debt above 200 pct of GDP in 2016, at 182 pct in 2020
EconomyGreece’s general government (gg) balance (as a percentage of GDP) showing a deficit of 0.5 percent... by Greece’s official lenders and the government. Going forward, the IMF anticipates an improving... peaking to 3.5 percent in 2019-2020. The IMF’s medium-term forecasts are also lower than
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Primary cash surplus widens by 1.8 bln to 4.84 bln by end of Oct
EconomyMacroeconomyGreece’s central government primary cash surplus widened by 61.3 percent to 4.84 billion euros in the 10-month period of 2015 from 3 billion last year, according to Monday’s Bank of Greece (BoG) data. Last year’s figure includes one-off revenues of 1.31 billion euros stemming from the payment Alpha
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