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SYRIZA seen marginally ahead as Tsipras and Meimarakis go head-to-head
PoliticsGreek Politicsa press conference at the Thessaloniki International Fair lasting more than three hours on Sunday. He appeared relatively comfortable in comparison to Tsipras, who put in a faltering performance during.... Interestingly, New Democracy supporters were far more convinced by Meimarakis than SYRIZA supporters
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Poverty risk rate in Greece hits high of 36 pct in 2014
Society. That put Greece well above the EU average, where 24.4 percent (or 121.86 million people) were at risk...) and Latvia (21.2 percent) had a higher share. In 2014, the average disposable income in Greece was put.... For a couple with two children younger than 14 years, the figure was 9,677 euros. The data ranked Greece
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Greek relief at EU-Turkey refugee deal but heavy lifting lies ahead
PoliticsForeign Policywill be provided by the EU, will be needed in order to put the scheme into operation. The EU has also appointed... to the people who are already in Greece. On Saturday, the Greek authorities put the number of refugees and migrants at more than 47,500. Although the pace of the relocation scheme announced last year
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Greece and creditors eye compromise to move review along
PoliticsGreek Politicsagreement with the IMF will allow the Washington-based organisation to put down in writing... being put off for now and only being discussed after Athens has passed the agreed measures. Given... the IMF’s European director Poul Thomsen described as “Mickey Mouse”) to be tougher than those already
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Eurozone sets out proposals for staggered debt relief for Greece
EconomyProgrammeto Greek debt: Short-term, medium-term and long-term. Any measures adopted will seek to put the debt back on a sustainable path over these distinct timeframes. The debt sustainability analysis put... and a faster decline in the primary surplus than in the baseline scenario, the eurozone would need
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From Berlin to Brexit
Agorain appealing to people’s emotions than Remain, which struggled between highlighting the potential... about what consequences it could have. He put his attempt to establish control over his party ahead... the decades. It was, as Jeremy Cliffe put it in his Bagehot column in The Economist, “easily one of the most
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Newsletter 91 - 07/10/2016
for the debt-to-GDP ratio stands at 184.7 percent in 2017, almost 10 percentage points higher than..., is that the government will put on hold plans to change religion classes and textbooks at schools. Instead... of various individuals and businesses strategically defaulting on their payment obligations. Put
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Newsletter 103 - 20/01/2017
in VAT Tsipras is unlikely to bring up the prospect of snap elections unless he feels he has been put... put in an untenable position. Capital ratios to remain high after NPE fall Italian Ferrovie signs... on TrainOSE’s debt to OSE, amounting to more than 700 million, is pending. 2 Budget primary surplus almost
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Newsletter 109 - 03/03/2017
is still holding out hope that the volume of measures it will have to legislate will be lower than 2... tradeoff has put the role of Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos in the spotlight. The government...-balanced by expansionary interventions put forward by the Greek side. New Democracy took this as a sign
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Tsipras clears with relative ease first domestic hurdle to getting deal approved
PoliticsGreek Politics, rather than raising specific objections to the measures the government will have to adopt. Also, at the behest of Tsipras, the text was not put to a vote at the meeting. This suggests the signatories simply wanted to register their concerns rather than create a flashpoint and undermine government
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