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Tsipras tries to stem losses to left ahead of snap elections
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAlexis Tsipras will handpick SYRIZA’s candidates for the upcoming snap elections as he tries to give his party the best chance of securing a convincing win. It has emerged that Tsipras will head.... The project has long been opposed by left-wing activists and SYRIZA campaigned against
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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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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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Greek household income falls almost 30 pct in 8 years, finds OECD
Societyrate has also gone into decline, falling from 3.2 percent in early 2007 to -6.8 percent eight years... figures. Growth in household disposable income has, on average, outpaced the rise in GDP for the OECD area
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