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After raising labour concerns, back to grind of talks for Tsipras
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAfter raising Greece’s concerns about labour reform at the highest level over the last few days... European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, who in a letter sent on Friday acknowledged Tsipras’s... arrangements or ways of working.” It was not the ringing endorsement for Greece’s positions that Tsipras
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To Potami and PASOK battle it out for dominance of centre-left
PoliticsGreek Politicsanother To Potami MP joined the socialists amid broader movement on the centre-left of Greece’s.... The lawmaker’s move means that PASOK now has 19 MPs, two more than Golden Dawn in fourth place. More... for PASOK in the past but have supported Alexis Tsipras’s party more recently, only to be left disgruntled
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Foreign minister opens up about EU concerns
PoliticsForeign PolicySYRIZA 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... in regard to EU foreign policy in many areas. The Greek foreign minister’s thinking about the EU
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Debt talks to be prime focus after Easter
PoliticsGreek PoliticsFinance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos is due to attend but it is the discussions that Greece’s four... will be settled. One issue of concern for Athens is the stance that will be taken by Donald Trump’s... made by an unnamed Treasury Department official, in which fears that the US might block the IMF’s
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Fiscal surplus back in focus ahead of IMF debt discussions
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGreece’s delegation of ministers is due to head to Washington for the International Monetary Fund’s... Minister Alexis Tsipras’s office. They were joined by Economy Minister Dimitris Papadimitriou... suggested that the IMF’s projections mean there is a strong likelihood of the lenders asking for some
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PASOK in turmoil, Mitsotakis strengthens ties with church
PoliticsGreek Politicsleader Kyriakos Mitsotakis has chosen to strengthen his support among the party’s traditional... but it could be as early as June. Gennimata took the step after a stormy meeting of the party’s..., though, that Gennimata’s decision to call a congress provides an opportunity for scores to be settled
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Under fire in Parliament, coalition looks to imminent conclusion of review talks
PoliticsGreek PoliticsTzanakopoulos remained optimistic that an agreement can be reached by Sunday. Following Thursday’s... then clear the way for the creditors to reach an agreement on the debt relief measures and Greece’s... by a minister, accompanied by an assessment from the General Accounting Office. The government’s
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Tsipras clears hurdle but isn't over finishing line
AgoraIn a sense, there is very little point in evaluating Greece’s agreement with its lenders. After all, it is not as if there were a variety of other options available. Seeing the economy’s growth... of the review and the damage it has done (Greece’s growth forecast for 2017, for instance, has been
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Greeks most sceptical in EU about country's future, their voice counting in Europe
Society, 31 percent in Portugal and only nine percent in Ireland believing that respective country’s crisis would “last years”. Moreover, Greece’s figure represents a jump of 16 percentage points since... states – agreed that their country’s voice matters in the EU, representing a drop of 14 points
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No honeymoon for Macron
Agoradiscussion about policy. Even more importantly, Macron’s victory was not the result of a resounding... politician from the centre-right could signal Macron’s willingness to build bridges across the political... at the helm of government. Macron’s ability to implement his agenda will also be heavily dependent
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