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Cyprus talks resume, putting spotlight on Greece and Turkey amid tension
PoliticsForeign PolicyThursday’s agreement between Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades and Turkish Cypriot leader... of the conference that will include the guarantor powers on January 12. During Thursday’s dinner under... issues. Thursday’s dinner was initiated by Anastasiades, with some analysts claiming that he did so
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Eurogroup leaves Greece snared between its creditors
Agoraimpression on developments at Monday’s Eurogroup. The fact that Greece is expected to reach and maintain... an overall benefit on Greece’s debt profile of approximately 40 billion euros over the next decades... fanned political crises that consumed every crisis prime minister so far. The demand by Greece’s
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Flare-up between Athens and IMF fuels doubts over review breakthrough
PoliticsGreek Politicsof the IMF’s European Department, Poul Thomsen, and the Fund’s head of research, Maurice Obstfeld... Panayiotis Rigas also rejected the IMF’s criticism on labour reforms, arguing that the government simply... in the Wall Street Journal, the Finance Ministry’s general secretary for fiscal policy Franciscos
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Mitsotakis probes for coalition weakness after Tsakalotos letter
PoliticsGreek PoliticsNew Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis criticised on Thursday the government’s handling... Tsipras for failing to consult properly with the institutions. Mitsotakis’s latest comments, though....” It is clear that the conservatives hope Tsakalotos’s letter, which does not contain any new pledges
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Newsletter 102 - 13/01/2017
. This will be the government’s line of defence should the proposal it is fleshing out form the basis of an agreement to conclude the review. There is no evidence so far that this will be deemed sufficient by Greece’s lenders... not involve legislating extra measures, even contingent ones, now. Tsipras’s biggest fear is that he
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Mitsotakis seals alliance with Drassi, targets role of unifier
PoliticsGreek Politicsas a surprise as Mitsotakis’s policies are similar to those proposed by Drassi. The alliance between the two... MEP Skylakakis took over the party’s leadership in June 2013 and decided to align with centrist... but Mitsotakis will hope that Drassi’s decision to work with New Democracy will act as a template
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Athens holds back proposal details ahead of Thursday's Eurogroup
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe government has decided to keep its cards close to its chest ahead of Thursday’s Eurogroup... 13 to 14 percent. The government’s reluctance to include these in Tsakalotos’s letter ahead... as the finance minister is expected to hold high-level talks ahead of Thursday’s Eurogroup. However
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The place where sanity goes to die
Agorain Thursday’s press conference regarding Greece’s fiscal targets epitomised the sad state of affairs... information during the Q&A, Dijsselbloem’s unease reflected the fact that eurozone lenders are running out of options and that the strategy of delivering sub-optimal solutions in Greece’s case appears to have
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Space and time the missing elements in Greek bailout talks
AgoraThe meeting of the International Monetary Fund’s executive board on Monday ended without any clear... for the last weeks, months and years. Greece’s lenders have never tackled the issue decisively when the option... continues to hang over all those involved. The problem is that each side’s particular concerns
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Piraeus Bank appoints new CEO, ending a long period of uncertainty
EconomyBankingby the bank’s Board of Directors. The appointment has the consent of the Hellenic Financial Stability... to be ratified by the European Central Bank’s Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM). According to reports, Megalou was selected by the bank’s nomination committee as the sole candidate for the post
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