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Agora. Recession Greece’s recession, which began in the second half of 2008, has put enormous strain... were badly damaged by the political uncertainty and repeated statements by European politicians... to 40 percent for the European average, and Greek SMEs are half the size of the European SMEs
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Tsipras hopes to muddle through, avoid internal clash for now
PoliticsGreek Politicscontinues to look for a way to avoid, or at least put off, confrontation with dissenting voices in his...Ahead of a meeting between key European Union officials and Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras... the European Commission’s objection to the tabling of the law on the “humanitarian crisis,” arguing
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Greece prepared to move on pension, labour reforms but details to be decisive
PoliticsGreek Politicsparliamentary group that the administration’s future will be put in doubt. At this stage, the most that can...A joint statement by European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and Greek Prime Minister... the highest European standards.” The reference to collective bargaining appears to be a concession
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Newsletter 30 - 12/06/2015
will put togther a face-saving deal at the last minute. There were reports on Friday that Greece had..., which has not been able to convince Greece’s European lenders of the need for debt relief nor Athens... that there are still “major differences” preventing an agreement. From Brussels, European officials
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Neither necessary, nor good
Agorathat a government with a broad majority (255 out of 300 MPs) was being put in place under the leadership of former European Central Bank vice president Lucas Papademos meant that all other concerns... SYRIZA’s support among many in the European left, for whom isolating extreme views and promoting
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Newsletter 55 - 12/12/2015
put it. It is true that on some issues, the fund is a harder taskmaster than the European lenders... of 400 million to a European firm. In addition, he noted that although there was limited investor... billion by the end of 2018, while the European Commission believes a higher amount, at 2.5 billion
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Amid risk of 2015 re-run, Greece searching for deal with lenders
![Photo by Myrto Papadopoulos [www.myrtopapadopoulos.com]](resources/toolip/img-thumb/2013/11/06/tsipras_1000_myrto_0511-medium.jpg "Photo by Myrto Papadopoulos [www.myrtopapadopoulos.com]")
PoliticsGreek Politicson and no agreement being reached in the build-up to the British referendum. Athens fears that everything will be put... as the European lenders and the IMF were to draft different ones) to emerge before the pause for the Washington... that the negotiators parted on bad terms, with European Stability Mechanism managing director Klaus Regling
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Bailout talks inch forward as Juncker comments complicate matters
PoliticsGreek Politics. However, I am not highly alerted by it, it’s the right of the Greek government to put a draft bill... were exacerbated by comments from European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker that appeared to support... to insist that it should be slashed to 8,182 euros, while the European Commission officials taking
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Apart from bailout review, plenty to keep Tsipras busy in autumn
PoliticsGreek Politicsanimosity within SYRIZA. He put off plans for a reshuffle and has to a great extent compromised... that Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will face this autumn, both domestically and on the European and international stages. Tsipras is due to attend a meeting of European socialist leaders in Paris
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Tsipras puts proposals to socialist leaders, resumes bailout talks ahead of review
PoliticsGreek Politics, despite having just observer status at the meeting, put forward clear proposals, indicating.... According to reports, the Greek leader suggested that the funds made available via the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI), also known as the Juncker package after the European Commission
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