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EP president visit and winding up of rail crash inquiry cast spotlight on rule of law concerns
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAn official visit to Athens by the President of the European Parliament Roberta Metsola gave Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis an occasion to hit back at the recent resolution passed by European lawmakers expressing concerns about the rule of law in Gr...
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A breakdown of the fiscal and structural reforms Greece hopes will unlock funding
EconomyProgrammeor completed involve the Piraeus Port Authority (OLP), Mutual Horsebetting Licence (ODIE) and regional airports... Fund (HRADF) that is on sale currently stands at 180 million. With regards to the ODIE tender, Greek
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SYRIZA tests PASOK waters with talk of possible alliance
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGreeks (ANEL) have been accompanied by a revival of the effort to explore the idea of Alexis Tsipras’s party working with PASOK in the future. Defence Minister Panos Kammenos, who leads ANEL, intervened... SYRIZA that perhaps the alliance between the leftists and the right-wing nationalists of ANEL has run its
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Political turbulence due to name deal creates election doubts
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGreeks (ANEL), was ousted from his party. This leaves the coalition with just a three-seat majority... with FYROM because the pact was not supported by the whole coalition as ANEL leader and Defence... will intensify about how long ANEL will be able to prop up the coalition. Given that the next elections
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New Democracy gains MP as new effort to launch nationalist party announced
PoliticsGreek Politicsranks in January, but more recently lost two Independent Greeks (ANEL) lawmakers due to the agreement... with the name deal and to appeal to voters who may have backed Golden Dawn or ANEL in the past. The decline of ANEL, both in terms of opinion poll ratings (it is hovering just below the 3 percent threshold
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Budget deficit of 6.38 bln in Aug confirmed; target beaten due to one offs
EconomyMacroeconomyThe budget primary balance was confirmed at a deficit of 6.38 billion euros in the first eight months of 2021, compared with a deficit of 5.48 billion in the same period last year, the final Finance Ministry (MoF) budget execution data showed on Monday....
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VAT and income taxes buoy revenue performance as primary surplus target is beaten in Sep
EconomyMacroeconomyThe budget primary balance in September was confirmed at a surplus of almost 6 billion euros, compared to a surplus of 52 million euros in the same month of 2022, according to the final Finance Ministry (MoF) budget execution data released on Wednesday....
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Newsletter 57 - 08/01/2016
miracle worker, or “Harvard-educated free-market reformer”, as the Wall Street Journal describes him.... The Wall Street Journal writes that Mitsotakis won “respect from Greece’s creditors for his efforts... by the government at the beginning of the week. Finding a formula to achieve pension cost savings
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Holding out for a (reformist) hero
Agorapotential miracle worker, or “Harvard-educated free-market reformer”, as the Wall Street Journal... bureaucracy and weak political will have to be overcome. The Wall Street Journal writes... position as he got closer to power and, after winning the June 2012 elections and heading a new three
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Assorted obstacles block path to change of parties in coalition
PoliticsGreek Politicsways with coalition partner Panos Kammenos and his Independent Greeks (ANEL) party. However... suggest the current SYRIZA-ANEL administration is about to turn into a centre-left alliance. The first... into softening his position. Although a final decision is due this week, comments from the ANEL leader
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