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  1. Unpaid taxes for September fall to 1.03 bln but up 56.5 pct so far this year

    EconomyMacroeconomy

    Systems (GSIS) on Tuesday. The September figure is similar to the one recorded in June and July... for the whole year. The first target was almost met since the actual figure reached 994 million... percent in the 9-month period (from 33 percent by the end of August) and now stand at just one fifth

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  2. SYRIZA's weak foreign, defence policy credentials a vulnerability

    PoliticsForeign Policy

    for such visits – at the ministry on Tuesday. He met outgoing Defence Minister Dimitris Avramopoulos... with the troika in the next few months. The one area where Tsipras did suggest some changes is military... prove one of the party’s greatest vulnerabilities. Another development of note during Tsipras’s

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  3. Newsletter 2 - 07/11/2014

    Newsletters

    arrangements”. This gives the Greek authorities up to one month to complete negotiations with the troika on the key pending issues of the current review. One of the main obstacles is the 2015 fiscal gap... in negotiations about closer ties on a range of issues since last year. Their foreign ministers met

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  4. Machinations give both coalition and SYRIZA hope of winning presidential vote
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    PoliticsForeign Policy

    leader Alexis Tsipras met with two independent MPs, Odysseas Voudouris (ex-Democratic Left...-aligned lawmakers to join its side. Therefore, Tsipras's efforts to pick the independents off one by one.... In such circumstances it could not be ruled out that the party’s deputies would move en masse to back

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  5. Newsletter 6 - 5/12/2014

    Newsletters

    emerged. The first concerns a technical extension for one month, which assumes that Greek authorities... but it is to logical to expect that in negotiations where these will be the demands on one side... commitments that have to be met that will also limit SYRIZA’s room for manoeuvre. Chief among

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  6. Could Democratic Left (DIMAR) hold the key to the Greek presidential election result?
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    In what could be a very tight presidential election, the role of one-time coalition partner... will not be keen about the idea of returning to their former part, especially as they know that they will be met... and Independent Greeks. As things stand, only one of the party’s 10 MPs have indicated

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  7. The bad hand being dealt to Greece's next government

    Agora

    for the talks being inconclusive. When Greek officials met with troika representatives in Paris... 25 elections produce one). This gives the next prime minister hardly any time in which to negotiate... the limit was raised during exceptional circumstances in 2012, this is one more issue that needs

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  8. Complications over president a taste of things to come for Tsipras?
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    by Tsipras because, despite being one of New Democracy’s vice presidents, he has a moderate profile... raised at a meeting of SYRIZA’s political secretariat, which met on Sunday. Lafazanis then went... the government and its creditors, if one is reached over the next few days. In this respect

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  9. Strong resistance within SYRIZA leaves Tsipras with tough juggling act
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    to the fore over the weekend, when the party's central committee met for two days of discussions. The fact... the party's mainstream but four were won by the Left Platform and one by SYRIZA's Communist faction... - the friction within the party will grow. The one factor going in Tsipras's favour at the moment

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  10. Sowing the seeds of anomie in Greece
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    Agora

    . For instance, an attempt to remove taxpayer-funded cars from MPs met with objections and in the end... argument for a government that claims one its biggest strengths is that it is not compromised... to understand why he did not receive more severe punishment than a one-year suspended sentence. An average

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