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Review talks focus on out-of-court workout, jobs scheme and energy market
EconomyProgrammeon pending issues has not been reached. According to sources, the government remains firm in its... open is the threshold of overdue obligations that will be included in the mechanism. The government has... and that it may may be excluded from the fiscal outcome. According to reports, Greece has held talks
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Key obstacles remain in bailout negotiations for pressured govt
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe government has proclaimed progress in the latest talks with the institutions, which were due... of GDP), for the Greek side to be able to adopt some of the fiscal counter-measures it has identified..., it should also be considered that the Greek government has every interest to talk up the progress
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From MoU exit to Grexit: Where next for Greece?
Agoraor two early this summer when Greece has to roll over the bond that it issued in 2014, when Antonis Samaras was prime minister. However, the timetable Tsipras identified last autumn has gone up... then, there has been much back-and-forth between the government and the institutions, with minimal
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To Potami and PASOK battle it out for dominance of centre-left
PoliticsGreek Politics. The lawmaker’s move means that PASOK now has 19 MPs, two more than Golden Dawn in fourth place. More significantly, it is a further boost to the leadership of Fofi Gennimata. Although she has strong... that Gennimata has to worry about a challenge from within PASOK, even though some top officials, such as her
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EU and Gazprom: A legal compromise that will shape Europe's natural gas landscape?
Legalthe company with the right to claim a share of the re-sale profit. Furthermore, Gazprom has fully... beneficiary of the achieved compromise since Gazprom, by means of its above-mentioned commitments, has... in the gas market, the fact that the Russian company has accepted to waive damage claims against its
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Court ruling on pension cuts more political problem than legal obstacle for govt
PoliticsGreek Politicsthis sufficient for their purposes. The Greek justice system, including the Court of Audit, has ruled cuts to pensions and public sector salaries unconstitutional in the past during the crisis but this has not prevented the measures being adopted as political and economic necessity has led to the judgements
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Govt hopes counter-measures, debt relief talks enough to escape multi-bill maelstrom
PoliticsGreek Politics. In its attempt to manage the message getting out to voters, the government has tried to shift... vote. New Democracy is sticking to its line that Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has agreed a fourth memorandum with the lenders but without securing any funding. The local media, meanwhile, has focussed
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Athens blocks EU statement on China amid growing economic ties
PoliticsForeign PolicyAthens has blocked a European Union statement at the United Nations that aimed to strongly... statement was due to the “unconstructive criticism against China.” The same source has underlined... that Athens has expressed scepticism about the way the EU has criticicised the human rights record
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ESM approves next bailout tranche, providing Athens with some relief
PoliticsGreek Politicsbillion euros at the end of May. Once it has done so, another 800 million euros will be disbursed... market access but also because it has come under increasing pressure from opposition parties at home. New Democracy has asked for parliamentary inquiries to be set up to investigate Defence Minister
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Coalition's judicial wranglings provide opposition with line of attack
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe government has recently become embroiled in another clash with Greece’s judges and prosecutors... by French and German authorities. The decision could also mean that the government has to return millions in tax revenues and penalties it has collected from checks on tax cases that fall
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