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Greece a gateway and scapegoat in EU's refugee crisis
AgoraGreece activated last Thursday the European Union Civil Protection Mechanism, agreed to allow... European officials who claimed preparations were under way to exclude Greece from the border-free Schengen... November, up from 220 in October. This seems to run contrary to the complaints from other European
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Newsletter 56 - 18/12/2015
, a European transmission system operator, could purchase a share of around 20 percent... trust by the Tsipras government with lenders and European partners remains a work in progress. No one... relationship with its European partners. As the year draws to a close, the business of looking back
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Newsletter 58 - 15/01/2016
submitted by the government on January 4. However, a spokesman for the European Commission stressed...-statist grouping that can sit comfortably alongside many of its European peers. However, conducting... after four consecutive defeats at the ballot box (two national elections, a European Parliament election
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Tsipras concerns about EU stance on refugee crisis shared by opposition
PoliticsForeign Policyin the European Union that it is doing enough to tackle the refugee crisis and acting on the recommendations in a recent warning from the European Commission. Tsipras met European Council President Donald Tusk in Athens on Tuesday and is due to hold talks with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker
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Greece, eurozone edge closer on pensions and fiscal gap but IMF keeps bar high
EconomyProgrammeforeseen by the Greek authorities, the European institutions and the IMF. Thus, the date of the mission... European Institutions - European Commission (EC), European Stability Mechanism (ESM) and ECB... that the European institutions estimate the 2016 fiscal gap slightly higher at 0.9 percent of GDP
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Asking Greece to stack more austerity measures ignores past failings
Agorameasures just as the director of the International Monetary Fund’s European department Poul Thomsen... was a good year for Greece. The economy appeared to be bottoming out and in the run up to the European... billion euros (according to the IMF) to a more moderate 5.5 billion (favoured by the European Commission
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Newsletter 72 - 06/05/2016
to back another package worth 2 percent of GDP, even if it may never be implemented. The European... Athens, as has the apparent support for its position from the European Parliament (from the social... agreement on measures worth 5.4 bln euros The European Commission spring economic forecast, published
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Greece passes bailout-related amendments, hopes for loan disbursal in days
PoliticsGreek Politics, the European Stability Mechanism’s board will be in a position to approve the disbursal. As soon as the ESM takes its decision, the European Central Bank can also decide to reinstate the waiver... Euclid Tsakalotos to ask that European appointees be immune from such prosecution in the future
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Tsakalotos confident on meeting fiscal targets, sees capital controls being gradually relaxed
EconomyProgrammein the European Central Bank’s quantitative easing programme would contribute to improving depositor..., the minister said that “as a European I would prefer a European solution with the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) playing the role of a European IMF.” However, he added that he understands several
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Newsletter 83 - 22/07/2016
on Monday, European Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs Pierre Moscovici sought to kill... encouraging message after meeting Tsakalotos in Athens, stressing the need for Greece and its European... to be circumventing it, for fear of finding itself facing a conviction at the European Court of Human
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