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  1. Budget passed but troika accord still some way off for Greece

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    Greece’s coalition completed one of its key tasks for December by obtaining Parliament’s approval... PASOK, all but one voted against the budget. The twelfth voted “present.” There was, in fact, only one..., which brings together a variety of real estate levies that include one attached to electricity bills

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  2. Spain’s economic recovery languishes amid graft scandals

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    work conditions in the long-term. As a consequence, she had to move back in with her parents. “One... department suggested to her and another candidate that the one who would reduce her salary the most... of pregnancies only in cases of rape or serious physical health risks to the mother. Becoming one of the most

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  3. The Greek crisis we don’t see
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    percent in 2009 was transformed into a small surplus in 2013 – one of the sharpest adjustments the world... if one excludes some parts of Athens and other big cities, the signs of the crisis are not always... the overriding one is that the social impact can rarely be seen on the street, on the beach

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  4. Samaras shoots, Samaras scores!
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    that the sum can be greater than the parts. For Greece, which has one of the poorest and most corrupt... is also a powerful one. In a country of oligarchs, vested interests and slow change those who buck... of renewal. Greece’s squad has not been free of the division that riddles the domestic game, with one

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  5. NPLs: The Achilles heel of the Greek banking system

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    at 33.1 percent (from 25.5 percent in 2012). Since both figures are different by more than one... fell to 16 percent in 2013 (from 18 percent in 2012). The absolute figure is equal to just one third... percent is depicted in one of the many busy tables of the report. The IMF also stressed that NPLs net

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  6. Friction over property tax exposes cracks in Greek coalition's strategy
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    from the remaining pool of 200 MPs. The government said that only one of the eight MPs (PASOK’s... of homeowners, including those with empty houses. For instance one of the other MPs that was replaced, New... of arguments within the New Democracy parliamentary group. One conservative MP was forced to apologise

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  7. The institutional weakness poisoning Greek politics

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    will tell if Karatzaferis is one of them) will be brought to justice, they also highlight... an offshore firm that appeared on his records one year and not the next. Also, nobody thought... (one with a swimming pool), three massive plots of land and an underground garage. His wife owned

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  8. First vote for president leaves coalition with uphill task to avoid snap elections
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    , which was one vote less than the coalition's most conservative estimates. Another 135 voted "present" and five were absent. The result was a troubling but not catastrophic one for the government.... One was a SYRIZA lawmaker but the other four were independents. One of those four, Giorgos

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  9. Coalition edges towards 180 votes for president but close to exhausting resources
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    if they amount to more than one or two. Almost all of these lawmakers would be going from clearly being... the government. One of the party’s MPs, Niki Founta, quit just before the vote, leaving DIMAR with nine lawmakers. Founta, however, only voted “present” during Tuesday’s ballot. She was one of three DIMAR

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  10. Newsletter 15 - 13/02/2015

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    of availability and cost remains one of the most crucial issues. On the state front, the preliminary..., this is mostly due to extending the quarterly VAT payment by one month, until the end of February... supporters. “The left’s time has come,” chanted the crowd at one point during his speech. Without

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