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After holiday hiatus, Athens tries to get review moving again
EconomyProgrammeWith the date of the return of the institutions’ mission chiefs to Athens still unknown, Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos is heading to Paris and Brussels this week to meet with his French counterpart Michel Sapin and European Economic Affairs C...
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Greece searches for balanced deal as talks get underway in Athens
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThere was a low-key start to the negotiations between Greece’s lenders and government officials in Athens on Tuesday. The first meeting of the day saw Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos discuss with the mission chiefs privatisation issues. The fiscal ma...
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Athens and creditors get down to details in final stretch of review
EconomyProgrammeThe new round of discussions between the Greek government and the institutions’ mission chiefs began on Tuesday with the aim of reaching a staff-level agreement (SLA) in the next few days. Following the two 2-hour meetings that focused on energy and the...
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Institutions, Athens start new round of review talks as e-auctions get green light
EconomyProgrammeTalks between the institutions and the Greek government are due to resume on Tuesday with hopes of a staff-level agreement (SLA) being reached by the end of the year growing after notaries decided to end their strike so that electronic auctions can star...
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E-auctions get underway as draft SLA is prepared
EconomyProgrammeElectronic auctions made a successful, albeit brief, debut on Wednesday, boosting hopes that Greece and its lenders will conclude a Staff-Level Agreement (SLA) this week and pave the way for the completion of the third review in January. Two e-auctions ...
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Episode 10 - Get with the (first) programme
AgoraAmid more pressing issues, the 10th anniversary of Greece's first international bailout went slightly under the radar earlier this year. However, to round off the first series of The Agora podcast, we have brought together three experts on the subject. ...
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Parties get into campaign mode as ND mulls possible election dates
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe prospect of early elections is taking on more concrete form, as the government’s calculus around the timing of polls comes into focus. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and his aides are believed to be weighing up potential election dates, as the s...
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Athens eyes deal on bailout tranche within June, hopes for QE breakthrough
PoliticsGreek Politicsdebt repayments in July if it does not get the debt deal it wants with its lenders in the coming... instalment if it does not get a debt relief deal at the June 15 Eurogroup. This is a possibility, but only... on Monday that he expects an agreement within June, rather than at the Eurogroup on June 15 specifically
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Newsletter 305 - 16/07/2021
in the national health system who will need to get vaccinated by September 1, with details due... be able to fire employees who do not get the jab. According to reports, the government is hoping... workers would be suspended and then sacked if they do not get the vaccine. Soon afterwards
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Newsletter 62 - 12/02/2016
– politically and socially – issue, underscoring that such vital reforms will not get any easier by delaying... relations with the EU over the refugee crisis appear on a more even keel than they were a few weeks ago... is perhaps bigger than all the other challenges facing Tsipras. In its first period in government, between
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