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Greece prepares set of proposals for bridging deal with eurozone
PoliticsGreek Politicsin Parliament, the Finance Ministry has been briefing journalists on what will be the four pillars of Greece... a bridging agreement until the end of May or June, the Finance Ministry has proposed a second scenario...). This results in a total amount of 17.2 billion that has to be covered during the February-August
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The government decisions that could shape the future of Greek banks
Economy. Deputy Prime Minister Yiannis Dragasakis has stressed that the government will not undermine private... was perceived as market-friendly by the investment community since Karamouzis has served as Eurobank... facility to fund the settlement of non-performing loans. As ESM head Klaus Regling has repeatedly stated
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Capital controls in Greece? A response to Professor Sinn
Agoraof Grexit, while they would also be less costly for Greece than Grexit. The EZ has an incentive... that lacks liquidity, simply because ELA has reached an arbitrary upper bound? Third, Professor Sinn... for the Cooperative Bank has been deemed unnecessary, and since the Cypriot economy outperformed Troika/MOU
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Spain is not Greece: Part two
Agorahelped to calibrate the scale of the popular support Podemos has and to dispute some of the polls... explains why Podemos has as many convinced supporters as convinced naysayers. Walking along the same path... party that has recently come to the national political fore from Catalonia, is taking up the slack
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Where next for Greece's troubled privatisation programme under SYRIZA?
EconomyGrid Operator (DESFA) to the Azeri SOCAR has yet to be approved by the EU’s Competition Commission... to: a) Not to roll back privatisations that have been completed. Where the tender process has been launched..., has repeatedly stressed that the government will stop the privatization of PPC and is reluctant
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After Eurogroup, hard work, more pressure and sliver of hope for Greece
PoliticsGreek Politics” - entering ministries “with a power play that smacked of a colonial attitude” has “finished.” Varoufakis... is of the essence for the coalition as it only has cash to pay its obligations for the next few... on whether the limit can be raised from the current 15 billion euros, which has already been reached
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Tsipras makes his point in Moscow but leaves with nothing tangible
PoliticsGreek Politicsand legislation. - Putin indicated that Russia still has an active interest in the potential privatisation... the obligations it has as a member of the EU and international organisations. The impression left by Tsipras... in itself. The Greek coalition has been keen to show over the last three months wherever it can
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Eurogroup leaves Greece in limbo, with liquidity drying up
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe "progress that has been achieved so far" in negotiations but said that "more time and effort are needed... progress has been made. European Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner Pierre Moscovici said... that Athens has a completely different approach to what needs to be done in these two areas from its
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Reopening public broadcaster poses multiple challenges for Tsipras
PoliticsGreek Politicswas particularly aggressive in her questioning towards ERT’s would-be CEO, Lambis Tagmatarchis, who has served in a senior role at the broadcaster before and has had run-ins with the employees’ union... election pledges that he is in a position to keep. He also has a chance to show that he is genuinely
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SYRIZA prepares to debate deal as Tsipras's options narrow
PoliticsGreek Politicsto the International Monetary Fund, when Athens has to transfer about 300 million euros. SYRIZA’s parliamentary... that even this can be achieved if lenders, as has been reported, are not prepared to commit to debt..., where European Central Bank president Mario Draghi who said that there has to be a credible
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