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After marathon in Brussels, short sprints for Tsipras in Athens
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAfter his marathon in Brussels, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras now has a series of short sprints to run in Athens as he tries to swiftly pass the legislation demanded by lenders, while ensuring... the same way. Tsipras also has to deal with the wavering of his coalition partner, Independent Greeks
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Stand-off within SYRIZA to continue as Konstantopoulou stands firm
PoliticsGreek Politicsof the Left Platform and as an unaligned SYRIZA MP she has to decide where her future lies... of the air is likely to be after the bailout has been agreed and voted through Parliament but before
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New Democracy finds compromise but SYRIZA seemingly heading for clash
PoliticsGreek Politicsdifferences over the bailout programme for now and has pledged to hold a party congress in September... much more settled at New Democracy, where the party has decided to retain Evangelos Meimarakis
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Tension within SYRIZA growing, split looming ever closer
PoliticsGreek Politics, while the former minister does not want to appear to be the one that has betrayed SYRIZA. Lafazanis... of ensuring he has a clear majority of support at the conference. Otherwise, the regular conference
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Parliament's budget office rings alarm bell on economic prospects
EconomyMacroeconomyThe Greek economy deteriorated in the first half of 2015 and the country has entered again into a recessionary trajectory, according to the quarterly report of the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO... the agreement, it has to deal also with a reliability issue on the internal front due to the earlier
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Greece and creditors try to untangle pension complications
EconomyProgrammein the next bill, are restrictions on early retirement. The government has pledged to create strong..., the grandfathering of almost 130,000 employees that fulfil both criteria has been safeguarded and they could retire
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Tsipras wins vote on 3rd bailout but loses more MPs, raising probability of snap polls
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat Tsipras will call a confidence vote next week, once this phase of negotiations has been completed and Athens has covered the 3.2-billion-euro bond held by the European Central Bank, which matures
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Tsipras seen edging towards snap elections in September
PoliticsGreek Politicsas early as September 20 or 27. September 13 has also been mentioned but this may prove too early... else is in a position to form a government. Once it has been officially established
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Tsipras makes move to trigger swift elections but opposition stands in way
PoliticsGreek Politicsas little time as possible to the Left Platform to roll out the new anti-bailout party it has... has of drawing votes from Tsipras. Notably, the New Democracy chief said that he would speak to Left
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Opposition drags out pre-election process, hoping Tsipras pays cost
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe inevitable elections for no reason. On the other hand, it has given him an opportunity to accuse Tsipras... that the premier has betrayed the party’s principles and is responsible for triggering the split with rebel MPs
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