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The six reform proposals Greece hopes will help unlock more funding
PoliticsGreek PoliticsFinance Minister Yanis Varoufakis is expected to present six reform proposals to the Eurogroup... on Tuesday which six items would be chosen to be put before other eurozone finance ministers at next... are eligible. It also appears that the Finance Ministry will not implement its initial plan to allow
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Greece: The gathering storm
Agoraplans to do with VAT. On the same day, Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis suggested that Greece would... of confusion is in contrast to the persistently blunt message being broadcast from German Finance Minister... of the eurozone finance ministers began. Schaeuble’s insistence is also significant because it gives an idea
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Coalition rhetoric opens up more fronts for Greece
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPreparations for Monday’s Eurogroup, when eurozone finance ministers will have their first... Corriere della Serra, Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis claimed in an interview that the coalition.... This prompted a response from Greece’s Finance Ministry, which argued that the newspaper had misinterpreted
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Greece and lenders start technical talks as tension between Athens and Berlin rises
PoliticsGreek Politics. The Greek team in Brussels is to be headed by the Finance Ministry’s general secretary for fiscal policy... to the Dutch finance minister. The Greek government has been reluctant to enter negotiations which... monitored by the troika – the “cabal of technocrats,” as Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis referred
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Will the real men of unity please stand up?
Agoracontinued his remark by adding: “And take their shirts out of their pants.” Finance Minister Yanis... inhibitions on the other side as well. Listening to the doorstep comments made by finance ministers going... for Europe’s big guns, like German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble. "I feel sorry for the Greeks
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Newsletter 19 - 13/03/2015
to be seen if the visiting technocrats will be allowed to enter buildings like the finance ministry.... Economist Elena Panaritis, who is acting as an adviser to Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis, claimed... by the finance ministry showed that bank support scheme guarantees increased from 43.2 billion in December
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Tsipras to meet Merkel amid search for political backing
PoliticsGreek Politicswith EU leaders rather than a technocratic one with eurozone finance ministers. The coalition... allows great flexibility on the primary surplus target for this year. One of Finance Minister Yanis.... Although the finance minister’s overall performance was considered uncontroversial, the show and its
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Unpaid taxes ease to 1.16 bln in Feb, collections progress at stable rate
EconomyMacroeconomyof February - up by almost 2 billion euros in the year to date. The Finance Ministry has officially... at the same time an equal amount of surcharges and penalties. The Finance Ministry (MoF) announced... tax debt including surcharges. In the latest reform list sent by the Greek Finance Minister Yanis
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This is where Greek gov't could find cash to cover May's obligations
EconomyProgrammeFinance Minister Dimitris Mardas said on Thursday that Chinese investors participated with 100 million... amount to 2.5-3 billion, with the bulk held by pension funds. Mardas left open the option the Finance... billion euros in the public coffers. In addition, the Finance Ministry expects increased revenues soon
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Greece holds back spending, rakes in one-off revenues for 2.1 bln primary surplus at end of April
Economy), reaching 2.1 billion from 1.05 billion last year, according to the Finance Ministry (MoF) final... collected from the settlement of tax arrears in up to 100 instalments. Alternate Finance Minister... million for the whole year. The Finance Ministry repeated its position that expenditure will revert
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