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  1. Athens launches drive to pre-pay part of IMF loan, bringing budget benefits
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    , which carries an interest of 4.9 percent and the prepayment will save the budget approximately 70

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  2. Budget debate begins as poll highlights opposition's weakness
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    The debate over next year’s budget began in Parliament on Wednesday, ahead of this Sunday’s vote. Although the government is coming under attack over the cost of living and taxation, this political pressure is still not translating into any substantial shift in public opinion. Finance Minister

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  3. Honey, I shrunk the Greeks vol. 2

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    on economic activity, hits the budget and so on and so forth. It is the same cycle that has been repeated... claims, you end up with a “subordination risk” where private money is seen as being inferior

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  4. New Year reshuffle brings more MPs into cabinet, keeps key ministers in post

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    the deputy agriculture minister. Interior Minister Takis Thedorikakos has also been left out of the new... Petsas has been appointed Alternate Interior Minister, to be replaced by Christos Tarantilis... to the right” and “a party-political balancing act”. The elevation to the Interior Ministry of Makis Voridis

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  5. University bill threatens PASOK consensus as probes launched into alleged infractions by politicians
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    investigation in the Interior Ministry, which is the suspected source of the data leak, while on Tuesday.... The Interior Ministry has denied that it provides voters’ contact information, while the chief...’s EP elections, but also because the suspicions of a data leak emerged within days of the Interior

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  6. The case of SYRIZA's fiscal performance
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    This blog is about the Greek general government overall budget balance since 2013 (after the most... for the following reason: we recommend that Greece follow (roughly) a balanced budget objective. Then a gradual..., in euros, would stay constant—consistent with a balanced budget that requires that existing debt

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  7. Newsletter 16 - 20/02/2015

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    in his cabinet, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras chose former New Democracy Interior Minister Prokopis... government, with Pavlopoulos as Interior Minister, issued a presidential decree that allowed fixed-term

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  8. Approach to protests, policing poses a new quandary for government

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    portfolio from the Interior Ministry to the Justice Ministry amid concerns that Panousis and Interior Minister Nikos Voutsis did not see eye to eye. It was notable that Justice Minister Nikos

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  9. Will Tsipras move to centre stage to secure deal with lenders?
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    within the government, even leading to thoughts of removing Panousis’s portfolio from the Interior.... Interior Minister Nikos Voutsis and Alternate Minister for European Affairs Nikos Hountis

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  10. Launch of new movement highlights fragmentation of Greek centre-left

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    Former Interior Minister Yiannis Ragoussis is set to launch a new centre-left movement on Wednesday, highlighting the fragmentation in this part of the Greek political spectrum. With PASOK... to liberalise the taxi sector while he was interior, and then transport, minister between 2009 and 2011. He

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