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  1. Russia and China prove hot topics in Tsipras-Obama talks at NATO Summit
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    PoliticsForeign Policy

    intervention by saying “this is something you ought to tell your friend Putin,” the government has tried... with an aim to end the crisis in Syria. Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias has supported this position for a long time and even Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos has expressed similar views while meeting

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  2. After calm summer, hectic September lies ahead for Greek government

    EconomyProgramme

    reforms and bank governance. On the privatisation front, the government has to agree.... This board then has to select the Board of Directors, while the new fund should be fully operational... minister. In addition, the government has to transfer to the new fund a second group of state-owned

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  3. Newsletter 86 - 02/09/2016

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    on the economic recovery next year, but there has been much speculation about what pledges the premier might... a total of almost 250 million euros, which was way in excess of what was widely expected. The process has... on the matter. Brussels has asked the Greek government to ensure that claims the 2009 deficit figure

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  4. Effort to unite PASOK and Potami seems to have hit a wall

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    reportedly wants the campaign to last three months. The Potami leader has also proposed that the two parties cease to exist as separate political entities once the new leader has been elected, while Gennimata has indicated that she wants there to be some kind of transition process leading to unification

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  5. Government under pressure from TV permit and Attica Bank claims
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    existing channels. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has already attracted negative comments... upholding the appeals. New Democracy Kyriakos Mitsotakis has also intervened in the issue, though... last year the government has held up the TV tender as a prime example of its self-professed attempt

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  6. Government also finds itself at odds with Church of Greece

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    The Greek government has found itself in an unexpected war of words with the Church of Greece over... Orthodoxy and its traditions. This has upset the Church of Greece, which is trying to block the reforms... to the military dictatorship between 1967 and 1974, an issue that has long been a bone of contention in Greek

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  7. Foreign minister opens up about EU concerns
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    PoliticsForeign Policy

    SYRIZA has made no secret of its desire to change Greece’s approach towards the European Union when... that SYRIZA’s eurosceptic approach has been watered down. Kotzias appears more constructive during... of “crisis in handling crises.” He suggested that the EU has given in to the markets and is lacking

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  8. Greece as an energy hub: Reality or wishful thinking?
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    EconomyFeatures

    energy hub in the Mediterranean, and the EU has expressed its support for Greece taking over. During... of the 20.7-billion-euro budget for infrastructure projects across the next decade has been earmarked... of the TAP pipeline. Once fully operational, it has the capacity to supply around 4 percent of Europe’s gas

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  9. No country for reluctant peacemakers
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    Agora

    . At the moment, all sides are engaging in an activity that as time has gone by, they have mastered: the blame game. Notwithstanding who bears the responsibility for the failure of the negotiations, one has..., they are de facto rejecting the solution that has been described in countless UN Security Council

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  10. How Cyprus re-entered the market
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    Agora

    a bond has come from Greece’s central bank governor, Yannis Stournaras, who said it was “a bit early... that the previous government had issued to bail out Laiki. It has followed the same pattern for all... of its entire debt stock). Each new debt issuance has been used to lengthen maturities or swap more

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