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You've heard the Greek crisis myths, now here are some truths
Agora, it was decided that a unique package of loans should be put together for Athens. This was deemed.... They put together a mechanism to provide financing to an insolvent Greece based on bilateral loans being pulled together and managed by the Commission. This first package of 52.9 billion euros is set
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Tsipras suffers serious knocks in prior actions vote but emerges on his feet
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGreek Parliament approved early on Thursday the first set of prior actions demanded by the country... Wednesday night’s debate by challenging to put forward what alternative proposal they had to accepting... a plan to return to the drachma but Tsipras has now put pressure on the Left Platform to come out
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Which way now, Mr Tsipras?
Agoraagainst the first set of prior actions demanded by lenders or whether he will commit exclusively... to put forward a credible fourth choice if they could. Naturally, they couldn’t. With a sick economy... him in March or April that Schaeuble had put a Grexit offer on the table, as he had done in 2011 only
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In Erdogan's shadow
Agora-right MHP in such a coalition would have put Greek-Turkish relations on a particularly precarious footing and put in serious doubt the rekindled reunification process on Cyprus. In a recent interview... to put forward are those the EU can provide. This is why it is strange that Tsipras was so forthright
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Greece stands on fault line between vicious and virtuous cycles for 2016
Agoraprevious ones meant that any troika financing was put immediately on hold. This left Alexis Tsipras’s... institutions in the quartet consider a sustainable gross debt servicing burden. What will put pressure... with that of the left. Even the prospect of debt relief will not be put on the table before the successful
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A Eurogroup deal that might be hard to stomach
Agorafinancing in two tranches - next month and in September - as the much-contested debt issue was put... issue was put firmly on the table. This could be interpreted as a victory for the Greek side... how much the IMF had to climb down from the position it put forward in Monday’s DSA, in which
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Athens seeks clarification from UN envoy as Cyprus talks head for dead-end
PoliticsForeign Policyas a means to put pressure on the two leaders who seem to be failing to help the UN process move.... At the last meeting of the two leaders on May 17, Anastasiades set as a pre-requisite that the security... of the protesters of both communities put most of the blame on Anastasiades for setting preconditions
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There's always next season
Agoraof the referendum and serves as a reminder of much worse things could have become. The arguments put forward by both... inability to secure the key goals it set, such as a definitive deal on debt relief and inclusion... and levels of debt relief that Greece’s lenders are clearly not willing to discuss. Also, the idea put
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Whether an "early" or "clean" exit, it's the same old story for Greece
Agorathe idea of the exit being oversold and politics being put ahead of practicalities. Greece has been... by problems. The lenders were unconvinced that Greece was ready to support itself and put forward... not experienced its uniquely devastating set of economic circumstances over the last decade, as highlighted
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Name settlement triggers intense political battle
PoliticsGreek Politicsin institutional terms, not just for political reasons. Furthermore, he has put Pavlopoulos, a former... with Zaev ticks many of the boxes that Karamanlis had set out a decade ago, when he made it Greece’s... is debated for two to three days. Such a development would put plans to reach a comprehensive agreement
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