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SYRIZA buffeting continues as parties get set for official start of election race
PoliticsGreek PoliticsMinister Alexis Tsipras has already indicated his reluctance to participate, having already refused to meet..., especially as the speaker remains in place until a new government has been elected and MPs vote
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July credit contraction at 1.5 pct, slowest since Aug 2011
EconomyMacroeconomythis 4.5-year period. Consumer credit has recorded the biggest drop by 26.8 percent followed by corporate... formation in Q1, which has accelerated in Q2 and is expected to remain at high levels in the next few
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Sixth straight fall for economic sentiment in August as it plunges by 6.1 pts
EconomyMacroeconomythan 26 points until June 2014. Since then, it has been heading downward, with a significant... of January elections. However since then, it has tumbled by 34.2 points to its lowest reading since
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Concerns for SYRIZA mount as brief election campaign gets underway
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGreece has entered the second shortest election campaign in its history, with major doubts over the outcome that can be expected on September 20. Another opinion poll was published on Friday... was sworn in on Friday. Giorgos Houliarakis, who represented Greece at the Euro Working Group, has
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Defections and alliances as parties set out on campaign trail
PoliticsGreek Politics. While these are blows, it will be of greater concern to Tsipras that he has lost members from... Democracy between June 2012 and June 2013. Since then, DIMAR has gradually disappeared from the political
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Greek QE eligibility? We're not there yet
Agoraimplementation. Greece has been in a new programme since mid-August so the key question going... analysis (DSA). This adds a new hurdle Greece has to overcome to become QE eligible. Issuer limit
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First TV debate does little to fire up election contest
PoliticsGreek Politicsdeterioration in Tsipras’s relationship with the economist, which has also involved Varoufakis firing... education, which has prompted a substantial outcry from schools and parents. Attention will now shift
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Election Watch: 24 parties and coalitions apply to contest election
AgoraGreece’s Supreme Court has received a total of 24 applications from political entities – including 19 parties and five coalitions – to contest the elections on 20 September. The list includes all... approves most applications to contest elections, but in the past has rejected some obscure parties
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Amid talk of post-election alliances, parties propose changes to bailout measures
PoliticsGreek Politicschance” to solve Greece’s problems. The SYRIZA camp has shown no signs of softening its position... is that PASOK, which seems likely to be part of the next government no matter who wins, has set out five key
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Tsipras and Meimarakis face off, bristle at idea of working together
PoliticsGreek Politicsdescribed it as a “bad agreement,” Tsipras has now begun stressing the deal’s “good points,” including... alternatives, but this has never materialised. Perhaps the only other potential significant aspect
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