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  1. Reactions to reshuffle continue as government seeks fast track prosecution of former minister
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    . On Monday, Deputy Energy Minister Nikos Tsafos came under fire from opposition parties over... to show understanding for some of Turkey’s claims in the Aegean make Tsafos unsuitable to hold such a sensitive post. Tsafos, who had previously served as Mitsotakis’s advisor on energy, was forced

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  2. Growing Greece: From narrative to reality
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    and improved terms for paying off unpaid taxes and social security contributions. But the election... tax cuts towards the well-off. It appears that most Greek voters are content to allow the government.... There are several reasons to be sceptical about whether the new Greek “economic miracle” or “pleasant surprise

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  3. Greece agrees with troika, looks to tranche release and redistribution of surplus
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    apparently settled at 2.9 billion, which is well above the 2014 budget estimate of 812 million and even... million will be given as a “social dividend.” The latter mainly involves one-off handouts to 1... and pushing for an early primary surplus is paying off. On Tuesday, Samaras claimed that Greece

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  4. Mitsotakis sets off barrage of legislation to shake off introspection

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    With the opposition in disarray, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has fired off another round of reforms, hoping to regain forward momentum and put the internal scuffles in his own party behind him. The slow unravelling of main opposition party SYRIZA and the leadership contest consuming third

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  5. From London to Paris, no happy returns for Greece
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    and revealing in more ways than one. Leading off with the title “A Growth Agenda for the Greek & European... delegation. The “SYRIZA leaks” do not make for pleasant reading for the party leadership in Athens

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  6. Tsipras gets full support in pension and income tax vote, moves on to Eurogroup
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    to the podium, not always to discuss the draft legislation, the party leaders rounded off the discussion..., mostly increases to indirect taxes, which will not be pleasant but should not pose a major problem given

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  7. Athens wants to keep Ankara lines open despite EU reservations, S-400 deal
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    PoliticsForeign Policy

    issue is currently off the agenda as Greece and Cyprus think that Turkey's stance regarding... judged for its decisions.” “It is not pleasant to see what is happening in the country, even if some

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  8. The tie that binds
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    to reduce Greece’s debt, and then take it off again (so he could get back to work, the premier said... to revitalise the economy were pleasant enough as ideas but completely detached from the reality of Greece’s

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  9. Athens welcomes volume, form of Commission's pandemic recovery plan

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    authorities expected a package in the region of 10 billion euros. The Finance Ministry was on holding off...There was a pleasant surprise for Greece on Wednesday when the European Commission announced its proposal for a Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) of 750 billion euros, which will be attached

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  10. Greece's primary surplus: Much ado about nothing?

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    of the primary surplus excludes the one-off bank support costs. The latter stood at 19.72 billion (10.8... percent of GDP) excl banks’ support cost under ESA95 rules. This was trimmed to 812 million (0.4 percent

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