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Should Greece really ask for a debt haircut?
Agoraof their economies have the same characteristics as Greece’s: A very small productive base, limited exports... conclusion than that Greece’s public debt is unsustainable. The situation is even worse if we recall... point of view. Four years after Greece’s bankruptcy almost all the Greek parties continue to maintain
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DIMAR rules out coalition return but sees general elections on horizon
PoliticsGreek Politics, that prevent it from being part of the government. Beyond that, DIMAR’s strategy since leaving... extent by Kouvelis’s apparent belief that DIMAR might be able to fulfil the role of coalition ally... be a major boost for Kouvelis’s party. Without this, the possibility of DIMAR being a coalition contender
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Why did Greece return to bond markets now? Was it the right decision?
Economy, the government wants to build a path towards the country’s exit from the crisis. The bond placement..., suggesting that the prosecution was politically motivated because Golden Dawn was preventing Samaras’s New... Angela Merkel visited Athens to declare alongside Samaras that the country’s adjustment program
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Greek Parliament's budget office questions primary surplus sustainability
EconomyMacroeconomy, the government’s agreement with the troika and the 5-year bond issue but expresses scepticism... that the government’s primary surplus targets are overly optimistic for 2016-18. According to the MTFS... on average at 3.1 percent of GDP, which is well below the government and troika’s targets. Depending
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Piraeus snaps up share in MIG to complete series of corporate moves
EconomyBankinga premium of 10.2 percent on MIG’s current price of 0.49 euros. Piraeus Bank has committed to convert... representative to MIG’s board of directors. IRF European Finance and Dubai Group are MIG current... that will be mutually agreed, according to MIG’s press release. MIG is an investment holding company based in Greece
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One night in Cannes
Agoraof the G20 summit in Cannes on November 2. The former wanted Greece’s membership of the eurozone... his vote but only as long as Greece’s euro membership was also at stake. The eurozone leaders felt...’s euro membership on the line. However, was this the reason that Samaras, then opposition leader
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Election results in Greece lift uncertainty, for now
Agorain prolonging the lives of the poultry.” - T.S Eliot As the dust settles following last Sunday’s municipal... the substance. This may explain the paradox of the Greek equity market’s post-election performance... elections in the country’s political scene has been relative, but the stakes for these elections had
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Election fallout opens up divisions in PASOK and DIMAR
PoliticsGreek Politicson the party. However, after the initial surprise over Elia’s result, some PASOK members have started expressing concern that the party’s downward slide shows no sign of stopping. At least six of PASOK’s 27... Venizelos’s leadership. It is by far the biggest internal backlash against the deputy prime minister
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Ιnterest in exercising Alpha's warrants remains rather limited
EconomyBankingThe results of the second exercise period of Alpha Bank’s warrants showed that 60.9 million... of total outstanding shares, implying that the HFSF stake in the bank’s share capital was reduced... were granted for free to private shareholders who participated in the bank’s capital increase last
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Coalition adopts court ruling that restores judges' pay, others poised to follow
PoliticsGreek Politicsof State, Greece’s highest administrative court, ruled that the government had to reverse the 10... it will have a significant impact on Greece’s ambitious attempt to achieve a primary surplus of 4.2... Ministry explained this week, this amount has not been included in the MTFS because the court’s
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