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New Democracy hopes to celebrate 40th anniversary with rallying call
PoliticsGreek PoliticsDemocracy has planned two events to mark the occasion: One in Halkidiki on September 27 and another... elections (22.7 percent) in May, New Democracy has slipped several percentage points behind SYRIZA... has lost votes to both sides of the political spectrum over the last couple of years but Samaras
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Value of HFSF participation in Greek banks falls to 17 billion
EconomyBankingmarket value of HFSF participation in banks has decreased further to 17 billion, implying... has restricted voting rights. In Alpha Bank, HFSF’s shareholding decreased from 81.7 percent to 69.9... of the initial amount of warrants has been exercised so far, with HFSF proceeds at 302 million euros
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All the numbers that matter in the Greek presidential election
PoliticsGreek Politicsfail to elect a new president then Parliament has to be dissolved and national elections called... or February 1. The numbers At the moment the government has 155 MPs (New Democracy 127 and PASOK 28... a president. On the other side of the divide, SYRIZA has 71 seats, Golden Dawn 16, Independent
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Coalition sets bar low for presidential vote, opts for pre-election rhetoric
PoliticsGreek Politicsto garner in the first presidential ballot on Wednesday. The number has appeared in several reports citing... posturing The government has chosen to focus from now on the dangers of early elections and the prospect... points to 2.8 over the last month. SYRIZA is mirroring this strategy. It has repeatedly raised
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Pressing economic tasks mounting up for next Greek government
EconomyProgrammeto cover these obligations. However, since Greece has already reached the 15-billion threshold agreed.... This has been done in the past (in the second half of 2012). At the same time, the state has to roll... elections. The BoG has officially stated that they are “under absolute control”. However, political
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S&P puts Greece on watch for downgrade after sizing up new coalition
EconomyGreek government are incompatible with the policy framework that has been previously agreed... that the likelihood of a distressed exchange of Greece’s commercial paper has increased further either because official funding has beem curtailed, government borrowing requirements have deteriorated beyond
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Media pluralism in Greece at risk due to political links and concentration, study finds
Societyand the underlying interdependence between political, economic and media elites, a new EU-co-funded study has... and/or control as regards internet service providers”. This has led to a “a high ownership..., it has introduced media-specific competition rules to curb a high degree of cross-media ownership
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Samaras future unclear as New Democracy enters period of introspection
PoliticsGreek Politicsleader Kostas Karamanlis taking an increasingly central role in developments. Karamanlis has met... candidate for this position. There has been a rumbling of discontent from within the New Democracy ranks over the past few days. This has come from the more moderate section of the party and the one still
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Greece and lenders with conceptual, as well as practical, gaps to bridge
PoliticsGreek PoliticsDijsselbloem that ended with a terse handshake and the Dutchman’s obvious displeasure has heightened..., European Central Bank and the IMF. It is such a departure from how the process has worked since... that will not be the troika. At the same time, though, SYRIZA will also have to flesh out what reform plans it has
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After Schaeuble talks, Greek gov't still focussed on ditching existing bailout
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe current bailout. It is due to expire at the end of the month but Varoufakis has said that the new government does not want to accept more loans. He has only singled out the 1.9 billion euros in profits... with the troika inspectors and abiding by the programme, pointing out that if it has to be changed it would
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