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The bad hand being dealt to Greece's next government
Agoraof money in March. Hardouvelis’s words of caution are aimed at SYRIZA, which looks set to win next Sunday’s... credit line. T-Bills maxed out At the same time, as the Finance Ministry reminded everyone this week, the option of turning to T-Bill issues to cover short-term funding needs is not currently
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Eurosystem funding for Greek banks shoots up by 11.2 bln in December
EconomyMacroeconomytransfer abroad 2) T-Bill issues of 5.2 billion in December, of which 1.6 billion refers... support scheme initially launched in November 2008. The initial amount of state guarantees was set up... participation in January T-Bills issues of 3 billion are expected to push Eurosystem funding at higher
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Greece and eurozone edge towards deal but details remain sketchy
PoliticsGreek PoliticsBank’s SMP scheme and a 10-billion-euro increase in Greece’s T-Bill limits. Another demand from.... Also, it is not clear if the ECB would approve a rise in the T-Bills limit given that the short... that ticks most of the boxes that the Greek side has set out, including a new kind of monitoring system
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Newsletter 19 - 13/03/2015
government securities meant that pillar II and III bonds, T-Bills and Greek government bonds...), T-Bills (3.5 billion) and Greek government bonds (5–6 billion), totalling around 15 billion out... by the government’s decision this week to set up a new parliamentary committee to investigate Greece’s case
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Greece rides the ghost train
Agorato 1.5 billion euros in new measures and by deeming this unacceptable, SYRIZA set the pain threshold... don’t even manage that, they run the risk of going down as the men and women who couldn’t avert
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Neither necessary, nor good
Agorawere set aside. The two main parties, the country’s media and Greece’s lenders appeared oblivious... implement its socially liberal programme, isn’t tolerating the presence of a racist in its midst a small... in Greek public and political life means that they won’t be there when they are needed to protect the most
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Portuguese election: Where those who lost may decide
AgoraBloc and Communist Party) have important differences and haven’t managed yet to build bridges... with the idea of leaving the euro (but as a Plan B) if Europe doesn’t accept Portuguese debt restructuring.... It set out three pre-conditions to any dialogue taking place with the socialists but PS has not answered
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Helmut Schmidt, Greece and a valuable legacy for Europe
Agorathis week. “He wasn’t interested in the fleeting well-being of his party or even that of his government.... “To be perfectly frank, it was a mistake to accept Greece,” said d’Estaing. “Greece simply wasn’t ready... proved that he was able to set aside the scepticism d’Estaing referred to when weighing up the prospect
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Tsipras and Mitsotakis speak to their MPs but address wider audience
PoliticsGreek Politicscan still reach a “political agreement” on the review by the December 5 Eurogroup, Tsipras set out... in an interview last week. “We don’t want to increase the amount of people you can dismiss in large firms,” he said. “First we don’t have many large firms and secondly it’s not the case that employment
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From MoU exit to Grexit: Where next for Greece?
Agorawas about to start, he charted a path out of the crisis. He set out his intention to close the review..., forcing Greece to take a different route. Tsipras can’t sign The first is the possibility that Tsipras.... Merkel can’t sign The other potential stumbling block is Germany, which may be reluctant to agree
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