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Energy cooperation provides platform for Greece and Bulgaria to strengthen ties
PoliticsForeign Policyon the one between Germany and France, Bulgaria's Prime Minister Boiko Borisov is said to have told his Greek counterpart Alexis Tsipras when the pair met in Sofia earlier this week. Their meeting took... to their geographical locations, are facing three parallel crises; the financial one, the refugee crisis and a crisis
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Finance Ministry says revenues beat revised target by 105 mln in July
EconomyProgrammeoutperformance has been trimmed by 424 million for gross revenues and 516 million for net revenues in one month... the September-January period for the full-year target to be met. According to the 2016 budget, the first ENFIA instalment was due in August, one month earlier than the recent MoF announcement. It is not clear
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Mitsotakis tends to internal disputes ahead of renewed assault on Tsipras
PoliticsGreek Politics, hopes will be a move with high symbolic, as well as practical value. One of Mitsotakis’s first pledges.... One of the most vociferous critics was Vangelis Meimarakis, who held the interim leadership last year and who Mitsotakis defeated in a run-off vote. Mitsotakis met with Meimarakis before the summer
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Athens chided over asylum process but complex set of obstacles in way
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe pair met last weekend that Greece is moving too slowly on the processing of asylum applications... one Syrian from Turkey for each one returned by Greece. However, the process has stalled on the Greek
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Newsletter 91 - 07/10/2016
, the prime minister met with the heads of the country’s top courts at his office on Thursday... observers even argue that they are dictated – by Greece’s international creditors. One should not forget... in the formal economy. For one, the aforementioned volume of rising unpaid taxes is also a reflection
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Second review to resume in Athens under severe time pressure
EconomyProgrammeone week and concluded on October 27. The Greek government is hoping that the second round... model that combines flexibility with security, similar to the one in Denmark, which includes... target of 0.5 percent of GDP will be met, while the achievement of 2017 target of 1.75 percent
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Greece and lenders make headway on review but labour reforms remain biggest obstacle
EconomyProgramme. Labour Minister Efi Achtsioglou met with the lenders for the second time on Sunday afternoon. Two... of certain tax credits. The GMI funding for 2018 is one of the pending issues related to the Medium... and other creditors. In case their application is approved by 60 percent of creditors, one of the 2,500
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Athens gears up for Cyprus talks, expecting progress rather than agreement
PoliticsForeign PolicySecretary General Antonio Guterres, who met with Greek and Turkish foreign ministers Nikos Kotzias... being carried out in one form and are continued in another, this doesn't mean that the conference... that will begin in Geneva resembles the one used for Iran’s nuclear program agreement. Leaders discuss
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Athens sees Cyprus talks progressing despite lack of deal in Geneva
PoliticsForeign Policymet with members of Donald Trump’s transitional team and may feel a change of administration would... by Erdogan on Friday. Interestingly, in one sentence Erdogan says that Turkey will not leave Cyprus....” He suggested a withdrawal scheme that – according to analysts – resembles the one the UN suggested
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Athens gears up for deal with lenders, pending news from IMF
PoliticsGreek Politicsto be suspended if the fiscal target is met. The government is also hoping that it will be able... that will be taken by German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble is one of the greatest concerns... programme to be torn up and a new one drafted. Reacting to a question about the report, a German Finance
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