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Coalition hopes to ride out pension and tax dispute with farmers
PoliticsGreek Politicswith police in several parts of the capital. Apostolou’s comments seemed aimed at giving hope... excise tax. Under the government’s pension proposals, farmers would also have to pay higher social... national highways or protesting in Greece’s cities. At the same time, though, the government is also under
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Domestic pressure over refugee crisis building for Tsipras
PoliticsForeign Policythat he believes Greece is being treated unfairly and shares the government’s concern that the country... this issue is causing pressure to build up for Tsipras. Athens’s exclusion from the summit Austria... questions about the government’s diplomacy. Equally, the border restrictions in place at the Idomeni
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Investment: The forgotten casualty of the Greek crisis
Agora’s Olivier Blanchard and Daniel Leigh on fiscal multipliers, in which they found that out of all... to a collapse of credit; and the ongoing uncertainty around the country’s place in the Eurozone that posed... the dramatics and the set-backs of the first part of SYRIZA’s administration, the wounds in the Greek economy
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Refugees crisis grows in Greece as EU-Turkey deal hangs in balance
PoliticsForeign Policylater this year. Greece’s traditional ally, Cyprus, is also in a quandary over the would... to be seen if Sunday’s disappointing results in state elections for German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her... on Berlin’s willingness or ability to try to seal the agreement with Ankara this week. In the days leading
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Greek stocks fall 3.1 pct over week, volumes soar on Friday due to FTSE reclassification
Economyin turnover attributed to the country’s reclassification by FTSE, which was effective at the close on Friday... Greece’s rating at ‘CCC.’ It said it expected primary surpluses to exceed the programme targets... on Friday, largely reflecting soaring trading activity related to Greece’s effective
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Declining flow of refugees gives struggling government some hope
PoliticsForeign PolicyThere have been some encouraging signs over the last few days that the European Union’s agreement... Stoltenberg that the alliance’s patrols in the Aegean had failed to curb smugglers. Despite.... Authorities have stepped up efforts to move people away from the camp at Idomeni, on Greece’s northern
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Break in bailout talks leaves question mark over their conclusion
PoliticsGreek Politicsfor the International Monetary Fund’s spring meetings in Washington. Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos said early... as Monday, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras had been encouraging Greece’s European lenders to ditch the IMF... if this meant losing Greece’s strongest advocate for debt relief. Tsipras appears to have calculated
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Multi-bill tabled as Greece aims to take last step to completion of review
EconomyProgrammeas the contingency mechanism will be discussed in Parliament’s economic committee on Thursday and Friday...’s key provisions relate to the parametric fiscal measures yielding 1 percent of GDP... of a new independent regulatory authority for the country’s ports and the unbundling of the electricity
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Slow pace of returns and relocations leaves refugee crisis finely balanced
PoliticsForeign Policytarget of 20,000. The Commission’s statistics show that just 909 refugees have been resettled from...’s publication came just two days after the Financial Times reported that less than 400 of the 8,500... authorities said there were a total of 54,565 refugees in the country. Athens’s main concern, though
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Eurogroup sets conditions for disbursements totalling 10.3 bln to take place
EconomyProgrammethe end of October. Greece’s debt obligations stand at 5.74 billion euros from June until the end... would cover Greece’s debt obligations until the end of November. The next short-term issue relates... relates to Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’s announcement on Sunday that pensioners who received
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