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Amid risk of 2015 re-run, Greece searching for deal with lenders
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe top rate of VAT from 23 percent to 24 may help reach the 1 percent of GDP target needed from... affect the process and the government’s appetite for a deal may be affected if it considers
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PASOK and Potami seek common ground as Konstantopoulou prepares to return
PoliticsGreek Politicsbut Konstantopoulou may prove more durable. She was a determined and dominant member of SYRIZA and has.... Significantly, she will be highly critical of SYRIZA and Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, who may find himself
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Significant fall in migrant arrivals but camp conditions a growing concern
PoliticsGreek Politicsis that the agreement may not hold up for much longer if Turkey feels the EU is not keeping up its side... the following week,” said the Commission. “The expectation is to reach by mid-May the capacity
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Eurogroup decision on contingent measures, debt leave Tsipras with tough task at home
PoliticsGreek Politicsnegotiating with the institutions to settle on a package of measures it thinks may be politically... that the eurozone finance ministers may meet again next Thursday to discuss debt relief measures
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Hopes of swift deal on contingent measures doused by technical, political complications
PoliticsGreek Politicswill be finely balanced going into the vote, which is expected after Orthodox Easter on May 1. The committees are due to complete their review of the bill by Friday, May 6, allowing the draft legislation
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Greek stocks fall 3.7 pct during week on inconclusive discussions with lenders
Economyof the review. In addition, Eurogroup President Jeroen Dijsselbloem said that an extraordinary Eurogroup may... the Q1 reporting season of Greek large caps releasing its results on May 4. No other major corporate
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Delays in concluding programme review are credit negative for Greece, says Moody’s
EconomyIn its latest comment on Greece included in the weekly credit outlook of May 2, Moody’s notes that the delays in the country’s bailout programme review are credit negative since they increase... and interest payments stand at 7.5 billion euros from May until the end of the year. Around two thirds
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Greek tourism: Hopeful yet uncertain for 2016
EconomyFeaturessector last year, this year, it may well be the refugee crisis that has impacted Chios, Lesvos... of May. Meanwhile, German tourists, regularly topping the list of the nationalities visiting Greece
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Q1 GDP contracts 0.4 pct QoQ and 1.3 pct YoY, broadly in line with estimates
EconomyMacroeconomythe release of provisional estimates scheduled on May 30 and will include updated figures for March... and trade balance contribution. In its spring economic forecasts released at the beginning of May
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Coalition prepares final legislation for review, opposition expects no upsets for now
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAnother week devoted to drafting and voting new legislation awaits the government, which aims to complete the remaining bailout measures ahead of the May 24 Eurogroup. Another 1 percent of GDP... fund may prove the most sensitive as even some ministers (shipping, transport and energy) have
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