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  1. Press freedom ranking edges up but Tsipras yet to deliver, report finds

    Society

    annual report from the international media watchdog Reporters without Borders (RSF) has found. Up two.... The global indicator has gone from 3719 points last year to 3857 points this year, a 3.71 percent... Press Freedom Index shows that there has been a deep and disturbing decline in respect for media freedom

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  2. Eurogroup decision on contingent measures, debt leave Tsipras with tough task at home
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    for Greece to complete its bailout review but with more doubts about whether the government has the political... the fact that the stand-by package will be at the outer end of what has been reported over the last few... that these interventions will not be implemented. Also, given that the government has spent four months

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  3. Hopes of swift deal on contingent measures doused by technical, political complications
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    are not being met. One suggestion has been that the Fiscal Policy Council, created last year, could be responsible for monitoring ministry’s spending and imposing cuts if the budgets are not on track. It has... mechanism has some key benefits for the coalition because it means that the talks leading to a Staff

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  4. Compromise emerges on liberalisation of NPL market
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    EconomyProgramme

    on the sale of non-performing loan (NPLs). A moratorium has reportedly been agreed on the sale of primary... which a property belonging to an unmarried owner cannot be sold has been set at the so-called objective... that the sale of large corporate and non-primary residence backed mortgages has been allowed since mid

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  5. EU progress on Turkish visas gives Athens hope of low refugee arrivals

    PoliticsForeign Policy

    reported on Sunday that the European Commission is set to announce on Wednesday that “Turkey has broadly... in March, there has been a significant reduction in the number of refugees arriving in Greece from... the month, compared to 13,566 in April last year and 26,971 in March of this year. This has bought

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  6. Tsipras upbeat after vote, Eurogroup but deal details may still present problems
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has been in fan upbeat mood this week following the successful... period in Parliament lies ahead given that the government also has to legislate the 1 percent of GDP...) and the privatisation fund, whose advisory board has to be appointed in the coming weeks. Passing

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  7. Mangling the truth

    Agora

    to a state of war. Certainly, one could safely say that accuracy has taken a severe battering during... the bailouts have failed simply because Greece has not implemented reforms. There was an interesting example... incompetence and the hostile environment it has created. “This is not a good development at all,” tweeted

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  8. Athens sweats on outcome of UK referendum
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    PoliticsForeign Policy

    on the outcome. The possibility of an extraordinary EU council on Saturday has not been ruled out. The normal summit is scheduled for June 27-28. Clearly, Tsipras backs the “Remain” campaign but has... has been the most prominent issue for the Brexiters and there are fears that this could act

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  9. Coalition wants next review to be swift despite labour reform complications
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    in the coming months. Alexis Tsipras’s government has a stretch of relative calm ahead of it after... that it contains have already been a subject of fevered discussion. There has been substantial... that the prime minister’s comments were also designed to coincide with a visit by the committee that has

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  10. Economic sentiment stable at 89.7 pts in June, consumer confidence rises again
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    EconomyMacroeconomy

    ) figures displayed on Wednesday. The ESI has hovered close to the 90-point mark since March. It has... confidence has improved by 5.7 points. But this only trimmed the year to date losses, which currently... of 6.9 points in May. Since the beginning of the year, this indicator has also recorded gains of 9.3

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