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Newsletter 102 - 13/01/2017
of managing to conclude matters by next month. Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos met with his French... the meeting of eurozone finance ministers on January 26, when the most that Athens hopes... 2012. Specifically, the Finance Ministry expects HICP to grow by 0.6 percent, while European
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Athens warms to idea of eurozone going it alone after Schaeuble IMF comment
EconomyProgrammeIn an interview with Suddeutsche Zeitung, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble raised... statements, Greek Finance Ministry sources noted that “the possibility the programme could continue... to meet its obligations beyond June without external funding, it is possible that the German finance
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Athens holds back proposal details ahead of Thursday's Eurogroup
PoliticsGreek Politics. The Finance Ministry revealed on Monday morning that Euclid Tsakalotos wrote to the institutions... as the finance minister is expected to hold high-level talks ahead of Thursday’s Eurogroup. However... anything concrete emerges from the meeting of eurozone finance ministers. The government’s concerns
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IMF's outlook on debt unsustainability adds to doubts after inconclusive Eurogroup
EconomyProgrammeof the four institutions insisted in a meeting with Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos ahead... Finance Minister Michel Sapin backed up the Greek government, which insisted that this kind of legislation.... However, the Dutch finance minister insisted that the institutions did have a “common position
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Athens searching for compromise formula should IMF remain on board
PoliticsGreek Politicsto take place. The message was repeated by a German Finance Ministry official. On Tuesday, the ESM... it was made clear to Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos that some kind of upfront legislation would.... Finance Ministry sources said earlier this month that a reduction in the tax-free threshold of 8,636
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Revenues reach 4.3 bln in January, beating target by 258 mln
EconomyMacroeconomyto the Finance Ministry. However, the last Eurogroup questioned the structural nature of the revenue outperformance, meaning that the finance ministers were not convinced that public revenues could continue.... The same statement was also made by Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos after the last Eurogroup on January
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Tsakalotos and Stournaras raise objections to IMF assumptions
EconomyProgrammeon Tuesday evening included letters by the Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos and Bank of Greece... is significantly less than the average household number. The Greek finance minister also disagrees... that “it criticizes everybody else except the IMF”. Since Stournaras held the position of Finance
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Lack of clarity across the board highlights review impasse
PoliticsGreek Politicson Thursday as it emerged that Alternate Finance Minister Giorgos Houliarakis would not be attending... is not on the cards or that Athens is not prepared to make it yet. The alternate finance minister... the prime minister [Alexis Tsipras] and the finance minister [Euclid Tsakalotos] have indicated
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Tsakalotos appears but gives little away about negotiations with creditors
PoliticsGreek PoliticsFinance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos admitted in Parliament on Thursday that there would be “winners.... The finance minister responded with a quote attributed to Mark Twain, when he told Efimerida ton... that people have to keep in mind is “net.” The Greek finance minister said that the net outcome
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Greece and creditors dive into details of measures and counter-measures
EconomyProgrammethreshold and would like the cut in pensions to be implemented gradually until 2025. Finance Ministry..., as the Finance Ministry claims. Such a development could trim the currently anticipated fiscal gap for 2018... by the Eurogroup President Jeroen Dijsselbloem at the last meeting of eurozone finance ministers on February 20
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