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Waste management remains Greece's biggest environmental challenge, says EU
Societyreview from the European Commission has found. “Greece faces significant difficulties in implementing... NGOs has enabled building expertise and putting in place effective measures in specific areas... action programmes for all nitrate-vulnerable zones. While the emission of several air pollutants has
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Lenders to put onus on Tsipras with offer to wrap up review
PoliticsGreek Politicsduring that past few days there has been an agreement on what they will demand from Athens in terms... has proposed. Although the Greek government insisted until recently that it would not legislate any new measures, its position has softened over the past few days and there have been suggestions
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Tsipras's choices are becoming clearer but not any easier
Agoraministers. This government has already passed close to 5 percent of GDP in austerity measures since... using the influence the US has within the IMF to force the Fund to drop out of the Greek programme..., is on debt relief. The Greek government has made it very clear that it does not want to agree
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Athens in search of counter-measures to secure MPs' support for potential deal
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat the International Monetary Fund has made a prerequisite to complete the review. According... Nikos Fylis has also publicly questioned the government. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’s hope... could reassess its forecasts once it has the final data for 2016. It is unclear if the disagreement
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Tsipras faces heavy lifting to finalise deal and get party approval
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe Greek government has wasted no time in rolling out its strategy for ensuring the passage... that the Greek prime minister has ahead of him should not be underestimated. The two measures the coalition.... This leaves Tsipras with a difficult period to navigate before he can convincingly argue that he has secured
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Tsakalotos appears but gives little away about negotiations with creditors
PoliticsGreek Politics. The coalition has sought to obscure the fact that the trade-offs it wants to implement, such as reducing... between SYRIZA and ANEL. The latest friction has come in the form of comments from SYRIZA MP Nikos Fylis. The former education minister has questioned the country’s defence budget and suggested
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Tsipras defends compromise, appears optimistic on concluding review
PoliticsGreek Politicsbefore him, and other government officials before that, Tsipras insisted that the coalition has... in once the fiscal targets have been met. This is a point that the government has, presumably... of GDP over a period of 10 years. At this stage, Tsipras gives the impression that he has taken
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First day of talks highlights distance that needs to be covered
EconomyProgrammeapart on the size of the reductions that has to be made as well as the type of counter-measures... the sale process in a number of SOEs has been stalled, while the updated Asset Development Plan (ADP) has not been tabled yet. One report suggests that the institutions believe they will probably have
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Tsakalotos role under scrutiny as talks become more tense
PoliticsGreek Politicsaffairs committee on Tuesday. Tsakalotos’s assertion that “we are not claiming austerity has ended” caught.... It is not the first time that Tzanakopoulos has tried to douse rumours that Tsakalotos is unhappy... of the March 20 Eurogroup. This has been evident from the far more reserved interpretation given
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Amid review doubts, changes to constitution back on main agenda
PoliticsGreek Politicsof the mission.” When pressed on this point, the Commission official suggested that no decision has been taken... of the mission from Athens,” she said. This has generated some hope in Greece that some progress is being made... issues. In the absence of any tangible progress from the negotiations, the Greek government has
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