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  1. ECB set to provide extra liquidity to Greek banks but capital needs remain an issue
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    Economy

    reflected in the bank share performance, which has plummeted 23 percent in the last month. More than one third of their value has been wiped out over the past six months, when the last capital increased... haircuts Bank of Greece sources said on Thursday that the ECB has decided to reduce the haircut applied

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  2. Education dispute opens up new front for coalition at sensitive time

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    Already plagued by a series of problems, the government has found itself fighting on another front.... The university said that it has received 2,500 applications for transfers. Security checks Another... disputes has been much milder than in the past. Apart from some strong words in Parliament and a couple

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  3. Coalition hopes it will have more than just Paris at the end of troika talks
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    of the Greek programme has been frozen since September and the Paris talks represent a last chance... to back down on a number of pending issues in order to secure an accord with the troika, which has demanded 19 key actions. Reports suggest that the Greek delegation in Paris has proposals on all 19

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  4. New bribe claims likely to poison Greek politics further ahead of presidential vote

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    a little more substance in the sense that Xoulidou says she has copies of the Facebook messages she..., in the alleged exchanges. Melas has recently resisted calls to align himself with the party’s position... place, so the pair never met. Also, New Democracy has denied that the man involved is a party

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  5. All the numbers that matter in the Greek presidential election
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    fail to elect a new president then Parliament has to be dissolved and national elections called... or February 1. The numbers At the moment the government has 155 MPs (New Democracy 127 and PASOK 28... a president. On the other side of the divide, SYRIZA has 71 seats, Golden Dawn 16, Independent

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  6. Coalition sets bar low for presidential vote, opts for pre-election rhetoric

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    to garner in the first presidential ballot on Wednesday. The number has appeared in several reports citing... posturing The government has chosen to focus from now on the dangers of early elections and the prospect... points to 2.8 over the last month. SYRIZA is mirroring this strategy. It has repeatedly raised

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  7. Where does SYRIZA stand on debt?
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    Economy

    Fair (TIF) last September. SYRIZA has repeatedly stressed that Greek debt is not sustainable... distorts SYRIZA’s official stance and confuses the audience. SYRIZA has refrained so far from officially providing more colour on its debt restructuring plan but has indicated it will reveal more

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  8. Where did all the money go?
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    Agora

    as the EFSF has disbursed 141.8 billion with one last tranche of 1.8 billion remaining. The IMF has... total stands at 31.9 billions (18 percent of GDP). These are staggering figures: No other nation has.... To protect the integrity of the eurozone, the strategy has left Greece with a massive pile of debt

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  9. Why is Europe worrying about SYRIZA?
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    Agora

    orthodoxy. SYRIZA's leader, Tsipras, as the prospects of victory become more concrete, has further... are the reasons for concern. Regarding Europe, SYRIZA's agenda has two key elements. First, in case... to imagine a durable exit from the crisis that has chocked Europe since 2008, if at least a part of the debt

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  10. Top SYRIZA officials hint at path to compromise with eurozone
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    has been that it believes Greece’s debt is unsustainable. It says it will urge the eurozone... the role of Development Minister in a SYRIZA government, has suggested over the last few months... on this has also softened during the course of this campaign. The clearest indication that it is open

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