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Greece gets bigger tranche from Eurogroup but Tsipras misses other key targets
PoliticsGreek Politicssurplus targets, which eurozone finance ministers had been close to agreeing last month. Greece will have.... Alternate Finance Minister Giorgos Houlariakis claimed that Greece would not need to borrow from the IMF... to be revised. Nevertheless, Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos said after the Eurogroup meeting that he
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Eurogroup doesn't end in tie for Tsipras
AgoraDid Greece get what it wanted out of Thursday’s meeting of eurozone finance ministers... is whether German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble got what he wanted. Invariably, the answer... sustainability. The German finance minister, though, sensed there was a chink in the IMF’s armour and took full
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Tsipras eyes next step after mixed Eurogroup deal
PoliticsGreek Politicsfuture was revealed yesterday as it emerged that Spanish Finance Minister Luis de Guindos claimed... and lease-back deal of 28 state-owned buildings. Italian Finance Minister Pier Carlo Padoan also called for the matter to be resolved. Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos pledged to look into it. Greek
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Bond issue mulled amid pressure from judiciary clash, Varoufakis claims
PoliticsGreek Politicscoverage of claims made by former Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis and the opposition calls for judicial... of Varoufakis’s book on his time at the Finance Ministry, Adults in the Room being published. Although.... This debate was fuelled by the recent explanations given by Finance Ministry adviser Glenn Kim about
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Tsipras urges swift conclusion of review but doubts linger
PoliticsGreek Politicsso the prime minister’s office can check on the progress being made. Although Finance Ministry... be needed next year, even though a senior Finance Ministry official had suggested last week..., even though the Finance Ministry reportedly has reservations about whether this is possible
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Draft budget highlights taxpayer fatigue, creates policy mix doubts
EconomyMacroeconomyby the Finance Ministry that revenues figures are starting to reveal signs of fatigue among taxpayers... to the latest budget execution data, in August revenues were 1.77 billion off target. The Finance Ministry... million below the 2016 figure, it seems that the Finance Ministry applied a heavy package of various
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Athens eyes ample cash buffer, prepares for bond swap
EconomyProgrammeSpeaking to a parliamentary committee on Wednesday, Alternate Finance Minister Giorgos Houliarakis...,” was the concluding statement of the June 15 meeting of eurozone finance ministers. The creation of a pool of stand... year. Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos suggested this week that three to four bond issues would take
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Coalition appears to reach common ground with notaries over property auctions
EconomyProgramme. The Finance Ministry announced on Wednesday that the main elements of an agreement had been reached.... The Finance Ministry said that the coalition had agreed to make changes to Greece’s criminal code... as well as the justice and finance ministries would be formed to examine ways in which the auctions
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Newsletter 140 -17/11/2017
at the end of the month. The Finance Ministry announced on Wednesday that the main elements of an agreement... loans ahead of next spring’s enhanced stress tests. In a teleconference with Finance Minister Euclid..., according to the Finance Ministry (MoF) preliminary budget execution bulletin. The primary surplus
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Newsletter 141
The Finance Ministry this week tabled in Parliament the final version of the 2018 budget showing... that the Finance Ministry has earmarked 300 million in revenues from Athens’s old airport, Hellinikon, despite... billion, or 185.7 percent of GDP. The Finance Ministry suggests this is a temporary increase as part
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