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After TV permits setback, scrutiny of State Minister Pappas intensifies
PoliticsGreek Politicsto Venezuela in 2013 as one of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’s closest aides comes under scrutiny... to Caracas with Cypriot lawyer Artemis Artemiou, who was filmed exiting the prime minister’s office... that he had travelled to Venezuela to discuss a deal regarding agricultural products and the country’s
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Parties reach consensus on broadcasting watchdog after coalition backs off
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAfter five failed attempts, Greece’s political parties managed to agree on Thursday over... to the government’s efforts to regulate the TV sector. The cross-party consensus was reached after significant concessions from the coalition. It agreed to New Democracy’s proposal for chairman, ex-Supreme
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First day of review talks highlights differences as Athens eyes tight schedule
EconomyProgrammenoted that the progress made so far on the formation and selection of HCAP’s board of directors as well as on the formation of the fund’s internal code of operation was discussed. Both issues will have..., the new Labour Minister Efi Achtsioglou presented the government’s positions on labour market
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Budget for 2017 sees primary surplus at 2 pct on 2.6 bln fiscal measures, strong growth
EconomyMacroeconomydetailing the government’s fiscal and macro estimates for 2016 and 2017. The government’s initial forecasts... to be implemented until the end of 2018 and largely relate to hedging a considerable part of current debt’s market.... Both forecasts are in line with the European Commission’s latest estimates. Next year’s recovery
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Tsakalotos sticks to guns as review compromise remains elusive
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat those in Europe who argue that Greece’s main problem is the lack of competitiveness... and social security contributions. “If Greece’s problem is competitiveness, I cannot thing of a better... being eligible for the European Central Bank’s QE programme. He said that without QE, Greece
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Athens sees flexibility on fiscal targets, singles out IMF over role
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThere was a fairly subdued reaction from the government to the outcome of Monday’s Eurogroup... primary surplus targets will no longer be needed. The Eurogroup statement and Jeroen Dijsselbloem’s... issue on which Tzanakopoulos had something significant to say. He suggested that the head of the IMF’s
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SYRIZA backlash following Kammenos trip to islands
PoliticsGreek PoliticsSYRIZA’s awkward symbiosis with its coalition partner, Independent Greeks (ANEL), has come... by Defence Minister Panos Kammenos, who also leads ANEL. Kammenos invited members of Parliament’s defence... took part in the visit. However, the fact that two SYRIZA MPs and the party’s Alternate Defence
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Tsipras gets no encouragement from lenders, left to consider next move
PoliticsGreek Politicsreview, which is the Fund’s demands for some 4 billion euros in new measures to close the 2018 fiscal gap... January any hope of Greece being included in the European Central Bank’s QE scheme will diminish. This will remove another incentive (after the Eurogroup’s failure to give more detail on medium-term
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After pension dispute with lenders, coalition faces domestic unease
PoliticsGreek Politicsreportedly pledged that if this year’s primary surplus target is missed because of the handout, pension... for this year, the finance minister’s pledge is a considerable step back from Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’s recent rhetoric about Athens not needing to consult with anyone before deciding how to share
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Schaeuble presents Athens with stark reality of programme without IMF
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe Greek government was still pondering the implications of Wolfgang Schaeuble’s comments regarding the possible exclusion of the International Monetary Fund from the country’s programme when... would entail a high risk for Greece. Athens reacted with enthusiasm on Friday to Schaeuble’s initial
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