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Outright majority in sight for ND as campaign takes detour through recent past
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe campaign for the July 7 elections has taken a brief detour through Greece’s recent past.... Tsipras has been careful over the last years not to heap criticism on Karamanlis and his 2004-9...-softly approach. “He spoke for 1.5 minute for every year he has been silent,” said Tsipras when
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Comfortable lead allows Mitsotakis to play it safe as Tsipras makes last-ditch attempt
PoliticsGreek Politics. The opposition party’s big lead in the opinion polls has even forced Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to lift... to suggest that such last-ditch efforts will be in vain as New Democracy has too big and decisive a lead... this campaign, New Democracy has sought to win votes from the right, preventing them from going to ultra
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New Parliament sworn in as Mitsotakis picks top civil servants, maintains status quo with church
PoliticsGreek PoliticsDemocracy has traditionally enjoyed a close relationship with the church and resisted the previous..., who many believed destined to lead To Potami, said that he has stepped down from the centrist.... The lack of female appointments has again been noted in some of the local media as there were just
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Continuity and priorities
Agoraand to attract foreign investment something which has been a key aim for some time but with no real results... is not yet clear. Having served at the Ministry of Defence (2014-2015), Dendias certainly has a feeling... government has so far been cautious when responding to Turkey's rhetoric and activities especially
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What brought down Golden Dawn?
Societyof the national and the European Parliament after losing more than half its voters. A lot has happened... and a laundry list of other criminal charges. Greece has completed its economic adjustment programme... in the subsequent national elections was even more dismal. The party has performed better in both European
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Vital economic legislation lined up as ND seeks compromise over diaspora vote
PoliticsGreek Politicsprepare to share out the additional surplus from this year’s budget, which has been estimated at 380 million euros. Of this, 138 million euros has been earmarked for reducing the amount of tax companies... investment strategy. The system, which represents a major departure from what has gone before, will apply
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Banks enter final quarter with high hopes for bad loan reduction while challenges remain
EconomyBanking, Piraeus Bank has the highest NPE stock on its balance sheets with the total currently standing at 26.1... billion. NBG currently has the smallest amount of bad loans on its books, with the bank reporting... value of 1.8 billion euros. Finally, Piraeus Bank has 1.6 billion euros worth of NPE sales
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Greece aims to bolster Balkan role to dull impact of EU veto for Skopje, Tirana
PoliticsForeign Policypresidency as of January 2020. The Greek government has already contacted members of the government in North... Kyriakos Mitsotakis met with his Albanian counterpart, Edi Rama, last Tuesday. Dendias has tried... back and we could return to what has happened. Otherwise we cannot lie to the people that we
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Piraeus sets ambitious NPL targets with Intrum deal as banks prepare securitisations
EconomyBanking-performing credit will stay on the Bank’s balance sheet. The managing entity, Intrum Hellas, has already... noted the extremely slow judiciary process in Greece as a problem. Piraeus Bank has the highest NPE... not carry an investment grade credit rating. The final version of the Hercules scheme has not yet been
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ND and SYRIZA set aside social dividend talk to focus on internal issues
PoliticsGreek Politicswithin the government about how to use this extra cash. Finance Minister Christos Staikouras has... earners and the unemployed), while government spokesman Stelios Petsas has suggested that those burdened... the refugee issue, which has become a dominant theme in the public discussion over the last few months
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