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A year on, Tsipras's SYRIZA in need of morale boost
PoliticsGreek Politicsanniversary of the leftist party coming to power. Coming almost a year to the day since SYRIZA’s election.... For instance, SYRIZA’s “parallel programme” of interventions aimed at extending the crisis safety net... for a “significant” debt reduction from Greece’s European lenders after Tsipras met Christine Lagarde in Davos
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Meeting with farmers marks start of renewed effort to reach bailout review deal
PoliticsGreek Politicson Monday to discuss their objections to the government’s plans for increases in tax and social security... domestically and with Greece’s lenders so that the first bailout review can be concluded. Tsipras is due... others are refusing to hold talks with the government. As we have mentioned before, Tsipras’s room
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Benefits and banana skins for Greece in EU-Turkey refugee deal
PoliticsForeign Policyit a “step forward.” Compared to the previous plan to seal Greece’s borders and only address the humanitarian crisis that would be caused by the build-up of refugees in Greece, Monday’s scheme offers Athens.... However, before that stage is reached the main concern in Athens will be on the opening of Turkey’s
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OECD sees potential for recovery in Greek economy, stresses benefits from reforms
EconomyMacroeconomyof oligopolies, the regulatory burden and the public administration’s weakness. They key reasons... boost significantly Greece’s output over the next decade and return GDP per capita to its pre-crisis...’ liquidity condition and successful negotiations on lowering the public sector’s gross financing needs
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Idomeni exodus complicates management of refugee crisis for gov't
PoliticsForeign Policyangered officials in FYROM and relations between the two countries, which are already tense as Skopje’s... this given that Sunday’s events will add to its criticism of its handling of the situation... more mud. However, questions are being asked about whether the state’s presence in the meantime
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Coalition crisis on hold as Kammenos eases up
PoliticsGreek Politicsreferring to Greece’s neighbour simply as “Macedonia” appear to have diminished over the last 24 hours... coordinating body for the government’s response to the refugee crisis, said at an event on Wednesday... Kammenos’s control. This could mean a sideways move or demotion for Mouzalas, which would be enough
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Jan-Feb budget primary surplus soars to 3.04 bln, aided by underspend and PIB revenues
EconomyMacroeconomyGreece’s budget primary surplus for the first two months of 2016 was confirmed at 3.04 billion euros from 1.24 billion last year, according to Wednesday’s Finance Ministry (MoF) final budget bulletin... billion, vis-à-vis a deficit of 194 million last year, with this year’s figure standing 1.94 billion above
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Idomeni clash broadens fronts on which Greece has to tackle refugee crisis
PoliticsForeign Policypublic has mostly shown patience with the refugee crisis and the government’s fragmented, slow approach to the issue, if the coalition is seen as not protecting the country’s sovereignty and national... administration. Sunday’s events also raise again the question of whether the coalition is ensuring
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Refugee crisis threatens effort to improve ties with neighbours
PoliticsForeign Policymigrants and refugees managed to pass into FYROM from Greece. This time, however, FYROM’s Foreign... with his FYROM counterpart due to what he sees as Skopke’s hardline position on the name dispute... army’s exercises on the border with Greece, Borrisov referred to an “organized plan” that threatened
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Youth wing scrap prefaces test for Mitsotakis at ND congress
PoliticsGreek Politics’s youth wing, ONNED, over the past few days. ONNED was due to elect 400 delegates for New Democracy’s congress but the process turned into a farce after some youth wing members were barred from voting..., the weekend’s events give him a stronger licence to proceed with this project. However, ONNED has
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