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Italian support over Libya buoys Athens as it looks to build broad East Med alliance
PoliticsForeign PolicyJurisdictions Memorandum that Turkey signed last November with the UN-backed government in Libya... signed by Libya and Turkey on the delimitation of the continental shelf is unacceptable, infringes... on the issue of Libya. Government spokesman Stelios Petsas confirmed on Tuesday press reports that Greece
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Newsletter 190 -18/01/2018
coalition partner Panos Kammenos, leader of Independent Greeks (ANEL). The ballot did not produce any... Papakosta (independent), Deputy Agricultural Development Minister Vassilis Kokkalis (ex-ANEL), Tourism Minister Elena Kountoura (ex-ANEL), Thanassis Papachristopoulos and Kostas Zouraris (both ANEL
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Compliance report looks at programme financing, arrears clearance and 2016 performance
EconomyProgrammereport provided an update on the programme's financing by the end of August 2018 as well as on arrears... to cover the financing needs of an approximately 10-month period after the end of the programme... billion could be financed by the programme financing and the remaining 3.4 billion by the government’s
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Holding out for a (reformist) hero
AgoraSince the start of the Greek crisis, many international commentators (as well as locals) have been holding out hope that a reformist white knight would emerge from the political morass and ride to Greece’s rescue. Reality, though, has been equally consistent in shattering their illusions
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Tsipras aims to capitalise on debt deal as election talk is revived
PoliticsGreek Politicsand the imminent exit from the third programme. The MPs of SYRIZA and Independent Greeks (ANEL) came together..., there is a possibility he could call snap elections for the following month in the hope that a wave... holding elections next year. Holding a vote in 2019 also means that the process of ratifying the name
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Soldiers' ongoing detention troubles Tsipras, riles Kammenos
PoliticsGreek Politicslabelling him “incapable and dangerous,” comes at a time when SYRIZA and Independent Greeks (ANEL... the last few weeks that SYRIZA and ANEL have been drifting apart and seeking to differentiate... president operates like a “sultan.” Both comments seem to be an indication of the frustration
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No let-up in tension with Turkey as MPs prepare to approve maritime boundary deals
PoliticsGreek Politicsof tension with Ankara. The roll call vote on the agreement with Egypt, as well as an earlier, similar... as Turkish provocations in the East Med, including its own maritime agreement with Libya... no real interest in holding talks with the Greek side with the aim of defusing the current crisis
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Coalition suffers space agency misfire
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat SYRIZA and Independent Greeks (ANEL) are not interested in anything beyond what will bring them... In the meantime, the process of moulding the merging of Greece’s centre-left into a single and unified
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IMF recognises Greek 2013 surplus, sees less burdensome financing needs
Economy. Surprisingly, the IMF’s estimates for Greece’s total financing needs are materially lower than... in 2015 (from 18.6 percent). For 2016, financing needs are seen at 4.5 percent of GDP. The key
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IMF lowers medium-term forecasts for Greek debt, 2014 financing needs
EconomyProgram targets. Greece’s gross financing needs have been downward adjusted by 1.3 pp of GDP to 14.5... two years, IMF projections on the country’s financing needs remained broadly unchanged at 10
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