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Spain is not Greece: Part two
Agorahelped to calibrate the scale of the popular support Podemos has and to dispute some of the polls... explains why Podemos has as many convinced supporters as convinced naysayers. Walking along the same path... party that has recently come to the national political fore from Catalonia, is taking up the slack
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After Eurogroup, hard work, more pressure and sliver of hope for Greece
PoliticsGreek Politics” - entering ministries “with a power play that smacked of a colonial attitude” has “finished.” Varoufakis... is of the essence for the coalition as it only has cash to pay its obligations for the next few... on whether the limit can be raised from the current 15 billion euros, which has already been reached
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Coalition ready to pass first legislation as agenda for lenders' talks grows
PoliticsGreek Politicsof those three measures stands at 200.3 million euros and the government has identified savings in two... that the government is under extreme pressure to meet its commitments. It has to pay 950 million euros... banks. However, the government has been forced to gather the cash reserves of various public
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Tsipras hopes to muddle through, avoid internal clash for now
PoliticsGreek Politicsin Brussels, Athens has revealed that it hopes to reach an agreement for lenders to release some.... It would also help him argue that he has pushed Greece’s creditors as far as possible without... the single currency. Dragasakis insisted during his TV appearance that the government has no intention
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After paying IMF, Greece looks to cover remaining funding needs for March and April
EconomyProgrammeΤhe government has covered a large part of its funding needs for March, which mainly comprised..., the government still has to cover financing needs of 1.5 billion euros in March and more than 2 billion... on Thursday night, the Greek leader reportedly said his government has enough cash to meet obligations
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Tsipras makes his point in Moscow but leaves with nothing tangible
PoliticsGreek Politicsand legislation. - Putin indicated that Russia still has an active interest in the potential privatisation... the obligations it has as a member of the EU and international organisations. The impression left by Tsipras... in itself. The Greek coalition has been keen to show over the last three months wherever it can
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Much ground to cover as Greece, lenders prepare to resume talks
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGreece would “compromise, compromise, compromise but not be compromised.” Varoufakis has used a similar phrase before. By repeating it he emphasises how little progress has been made over the past few days... central role. As we have highlighted previously, Tsipras has so far been reluctant to cajole his
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Gov't sees reform multi-bill as path to funding but resistance abounds
PoliticsGreek Politicscrisis there has been a long history of Greek governments being upbeat about the prospects... the party that the government has gone as far as it can in pursuing its own agenda before... Theano Fotiou said on Skai TV that the government should ask voters to express their opinion if it has
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New fiscal measures aim to edge Greece closer to deal with lenders
EconomyMacroeconomyand pension reforms. On the fiscal front, the government has reportedly proposed a new set measures... list submitted in late March, MoF sources told Kathimerini that the current estimate has now been... to food and medicines. Greece currently has two main VAT rates of 13 and 23 percent and a lower rate
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Greece prepared to move on pension, labour reforms but details to be decisive
PoliticsGreek Politicsnot settle matters between Greece and the institutions but suggests that progress has been made... that Greece will seek to complete the programme review that has been pending since last September... review has been completed. 2. Pensions: “They notably discussed the importance of reforms to modernise
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