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Government rounds off legislative activity, Mitsotakis offers alternative on education
PoliticsGreek Politicsgovernment, the health system and education. All three are opposed by New Democracy, which has probably... a substantial say in the running of their universities. The proposed law has also been strongly... that his party has almost completed drafting an alternative bill, which would see universities
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Newsletter 130 - 04/08/2017
Georgiou, this week has stoked concern that the relationship between Athens and its lenders could sour... that Brussels has “full confidence” in the reliability of ELSTAT’s data. A day later, the suggestion... lenders is that Georgiou has become a scapegoat, or useful distraction, for the government. Both
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The whole truth and nothing but the truth
Agorarather than fantasy has understood that the case against the former head of the Hellenic Statistical.... The latter charge has repeatedly been proven to be preposterous and based on numbers that do not add up... government has admitted that when it was opposition and made claims about artificially inflated
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Third review agenda becoming more complex for Tsipras
PoliticsGreek Politicsalready has to implement 1 percent of GDP in pension cuts in 2019. Having to raise the equivalent.... The Finance Ministry has been trying to make up for the shortfall through confiscations so... and whether Greece would be able to achieve 1.8 percent of GDP growth this year, as has been predicted
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PM looks for positives as Eurogroup and oil spill cause concern
PoliticsGreek Politicsmeans that the European Commission has now dropped its investigation into 692 million euros of alleged... Tsipras an opportunity to put behind him the difficulties that the government has had in defending... announcement on Monday, the government has sought to smooth things over with the company
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Onus on Athens to speed up review after German election result
PoliticsGreek Politicsto prompt European leaders to wait until the new government has been formed, which could take several months. The FDP has taken a hardline stance on Greece during the campaign, with its leader Christian... Bloomberg in August. “Greece gets a debt cut, the money is gone, but for that Greece has to leave
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Newsletter 133
, it appears that a solution has been found – much to the relief of the government in Athens... organisation’s demand for a new set of asset quality reviews (AQRs) to be conducted. The IMF has... for the government to navigate its way through the third review. However, the IMF has also called for the reduction
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Mitsotakis targets working class votes, centre-left struggles with leadership race
PoliticsGreek Politicsclass – a section of society where his party is competing for votes with SYRIZA, which has repeatedly... on Thursday that this was a deliberate choice as the area has been hit hard by unemployment... months. Two recent opinion polls have suggested that SYRIZA has started eating away at the big lead
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Athens rushing to reduce arrears and secure 800 mln in bailout funds
EconomyMacroeconomyof arrears has barely moved. In the case of tax refunds, the figure has actually increased from... to the private sector has jumped from 5.1 billion in June to 6.03 billion in August. In the draft budget..., which has accounted for a sizeable part of the ESM disbursements. A combined 4.3 billion euros has
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PM hopes to avoid stumbling blocks amid numerous outstanding review actions
PoliticsGreek Politicsof the year. This, however, means that his government has to move very quickly in the coming days... Naftemporiki newspaper that there has been significant progress on another 10-15 key deliverables... from the volume of work that has to be done over the next few weeks, the complexity of some
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