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Mitsotakis targets Tsipras, floating voters and populists in first speech to his MPs
PoliticsGreek Politicswill be one of his biggest tests in the months to come. In his first choices for key party positions... Vroutsis) and one is a total newcomer, lawyer Niki Kerameus who was elected on the party’s state list
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PASOK and Potami divided over direction to take after Mitsotakis win
PoliticsGreek Politicsof the centre-left. Grigorakos’s dissent was just one of the signs that opinion is divided. Grigarakos is seen... of February but in an interview in Sunday’s Kathimerini, one of its leading MPs, Haris Theoharis
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After criticism over public sector jobs, gov't names new revenues chief
PoliticsGreek PoliticsCommission welcomed the appointment and stressed that the creation of an independent revenue service is one of the government’s bailout commitments. Indeed, Pitsilis will have one of the toughest tasks
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Greece left isolated on migrant crisis, with bailout talks finely poised
PoliticsGreek Politicsof reports that Athens was to receive a new warning (just a few weeks after the last one) that it could.... No one talking about a "suspension of" or "exclusion from" Schengen – no such possibility exists. We
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Deadline for liberalisation of household and SME NPLs looms closer
EconomyApart from pension reform, one of the most socially and politically sensitive issues of the first programme review is the full liberalisation of the non-performing loan (NPL) market. Although... should not deteriorate due to the sale or transfer of the NPL. If a borrower has more than one loans
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With bailout review in balance, PASOK's role back in spotlight
PoliticsGreek Politicsscenarios developing about what could happen if the government struggles to close the current review. One... has already ousted one MP, Leonidas Grigorakos, after he suggested that PASOK lawmakers would
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First days of talks confirm gap between Greece, lenders on pensions
PoliticsGreek Politicsdifferent tax scales, one for salary-earners and pensioners and another for self-employed. Currently... and SME bad loan sales by one month until March 15. The first phase of negotiations
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Coalition feels wrath on pensions but not in opposition's interest to push hard
PoliticsGreek Politics, that while anger with the SYRIZA-Independent Greeks government is one of the elements driving... (and therefore assume part of the responsibility for unpopular measures) in one form or the other
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Q4 GDP contracts 0.6 pct QoQ, recession of 0.7 pct in 2015
EconomyMacroeconomythe imposition of capital controls, which was one of the key reasons for the deeper recessionary... effect. In its latest report released on January 22, when S&P upgraded Greece’s rating by one notch
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As Greek leaders mull position on refugee crisis, EC sets out timetable of targets
PoliticsForeign Policyprovide its action plan (required at the latest one month from adoption of the Council recommendations... consulting the Member States' experts involved in the on-site visits in November 2015, at the latest one
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