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Little trouble for Tsipras in multi-bill vote but bigger problems may lurk over revenues chief
PoliticsGreek Politicsnight. The legislation received the support of 154 MPs, just one shy of the government's majority... the service's independence. The creation of the position had been one of the troika's key demands as part
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Bailout review resumes in Athens but substantial gap remains
PoliticsGreek Politicspaid amount and the one that would result from the recalculation) that would be guaranteed for a 3-year... non-performing loans (NPLs) by one month to April 15. The next meeting with Tsakalotos
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Final structure of bank recap taking shape, cautious optimism for outcome
Economyfor the coupon payments. One of the key questions is whether the HFSF share participation would come... one week before the announcement of capital needs, market sources are pointing to a total figure
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Government in race against time to resolve bailout issues
EconomyProgrammeif they miss the payment of one installment even by one day. Based also on income criteria, the government
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Paris attacks likely to place extra pressure on Greece over refugee crisis
PoliticsForeign PolicyThe possibility that one of the terrorists who carried out the deadly attacks in Paris on Friday night passed through Greece as a refugee is likely to lead to the European Union pressuring further... about whether the Syrian passport found near one of the explosions outside the Stade de France
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Gov't submits multi-bill to pave way for next bailout tranches
EconomyProgramme, the government is introducing a new tax of 0.30 euros per 750 ml (i.e. one bottle) of wine... after an instalment is past due is to be gradually reduced to one day by the end of 2016. In addition
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Mood sours as focus switches to next set of prior actions
PoliticsGreek Politics. It should be pointed out, though, that the creation of a task force to set up the new fund is one... by State Minister Nikos Pappas, one of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’s closest aides, that the Greek
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Unemployment among Greek doctors hits record levels
Societyat recent conference showed that just over one in ten (11.5 percent) of the 27,500 ISA registered... agency OAED show that of the unemployed doctors, only one in three receive the monthly unemployment
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Piraeus port privatisation moves a step closer
EconomyBanking, press reports indicate that only COSCO submitted a binding offer on Monday. COSCO, one of the largest... and III and was the largest Chinese investment in Greece so far. One of the key issues for the successful
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Greece's 2016 diplomatic agenda begins with talks on Cyprus and name issue
PoliticsForeign Policythat the Cyprus issue will be one of Athens’s priorities in the months to come. Eide said during his visit... priorities was the one DUI’s president Ali Ahmeti made last Friday, in Athens. DUI is the main ethnic
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