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AgoraThe tone of the day is celebratory for some. After eight years, myriad Eurogroup meetings that lasted until the early morning hours and hundreds of billion euros in loans, the eurozone is probably happy that it doesn’t have to spend any more time, energ...
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Newsletter 486 - 28/11/2025
control of the narrative Mitsotakis began the week by highlighting the latest stage of his relief... the latest index of per capita real disposable household income. Italy and Greece are the only... this week: the latest EU housing study. Greeks are by far the most overburdened households
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Mitsotakis shifts focus to tax plan, investment, law and order
PoliticsGreek Politicsstressed that the government has tightened up the asylum procedure with the latest legislative change..., the focus has been on the latest tax bill unveiled by the government last week. Mitsotakis appeared... of the government’s law and order approach. Xi visit On the issue of jobs and investment, the government is looking
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Who benefits from Greece’s return to the markets?
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Agora– primarily from the US and the UK – who placed buy orders in the book-building process were left... can identify other targets, which appear more important for the Greek authorities in the medium... the success of the five-year bond we can now expect that future T-Bill auctions will see considerable
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Politics trumping economic prudence in Greece
Agorafor Greece can be attained, as the Bank of Greece argues, it would indeed signal a return.... For one, we can now see how Piraeus Bank is using parts of the recently raised capital of 500... is immediately using fifty per cent of April’s bond proceedings to buy a major stake in a highly indebted
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Newsletter 12 - 23/01/2015
on the fear factor and the dire consequences of non-compliance or an optimistic assumption of what can... until July 2015. Implicitly, it is thereby giving the Greek authorities the opportunity to buy time... out to be advantageous in more ways than one. Not only can urgent issues be addressed beyond
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Another euro stitch unpicked
Agorain the sense that it goes against Greece's proposal to buy time in the negotiation process. In the end... and the coalition can keep negotiating abroad. Greek lenders still have almost 40 billion euros of EFSF bonds they can use as collateral for ECB financing. But the room for manoeuvre will be tight if depositors
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Everybody be cool
Agorato buy into the idea that this noise is reason enough to convince anyone that the appropriate path from... and can be easily managed. It does not require anything that the eurozone has not done before with regards... government, including the “unruly” leftists, in check. If these key issues can be resolved easily
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Eurogroup grants short-term debt relief but leaves Athens fretting over fiscal targets and IMF
EconomyProgramme; the waiver of the step-up interest rate margin amounting to 200 bps related to the debt buy-back... and is one that can be returned to in the future. This leaves a window of opportunity for the matter... it can hold up the securing of short-term debt relief as a success, this has to be weighed against
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Name issue and auction targets make waves in domestic politics
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe institutions had expected. There are still concerns on the lenders’ side whether auctions can take... scheme, and whether the online platform itself can cope with the number of auctions that are expected... to buy out the non-performing loans held by members of the armed forces, which was seen as another
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