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Greece makes new proposals in search for deal acceptable to lenders and MPs
PoliticsGreek Politicsfunding (similar to the buyback exercise involving privately held debt at the end of 2012) to buy back... national governments, subject to conditionality. The latest Greek proposals underline that Tsipras... efforts to pass the latest set of measures through Parliament. It would allow him to argue that he has
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Fears and reassurances over PPC's dire finances
EconomyFeatures. By the latest report in 2018, net results showed a loss of 542 million euros, and capitalisation of 300.... Defunct energy sources aside, the company’s latest financial report also exposed very high levels... it to buy the rest to meet demand. PPC’s tight monopoly over the energy market attracted the wrath
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BoG awaits go-ahead from DG Comp over NPL scheme
EconomyBankingeuros. The SPVs will buy the loans for 16 billion euros, which is the nominal value of 40 billion euros... 2019 CET 1 ratio). In its latest financial stability report, BoG noted that during 2018, NPEs... of 2017. According to the latest operational targets submitted to the SSM in March 2019, banks aim
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Leaders joust over Covid policy as death toll rises but public interest wanes
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe latest Covid developments in Parliament. The discussion was sparked by SYRIZA triggering... awareness campaigns – an exchange that the opposition party thinks was a thinly-disguised attempt to buy... to September 2020, when the positive ratings ranged between 71 and 80 pct. According to the latest
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Moody's upgrade underlines gap between economic story and reality for households
Economyof affordability. In the latest CPI for February, housing costs are up by more than 5 pct, while rents.... The Bank of Greece released this week the latest property indices for Q4 2024, with prices jumping... years and the government is struggling to get the public to buy into its narrative of economic success.
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Lost decades for Greek incomes tell different story to recovery narrative
EconomyMacroeconomyhouseholds - an issue with significant political implications. Eurostat published last week the latest...: the latest EU housing study. Greeks are by far the most overburdened households in the Union... public buy-in for its economic success story. Opinion surveys consistently capture a sour mood
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Tension with Turkey dominates government agenda at home and abroad
PoliticsGreek Politicsminister’s visit to Washington. The latest poll shows the governing party leading with 31.1 pct against... rights”. A few days earlier, on the eve of a visit to the Evros border, Citizen Protection Minister... of the Greek PM’s visit to Washington. The minister was visiting to inspect the readiness of the border
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Tsipras pushes for more thorough probe into mounting wiretap allegations
PoliticsGreek Politicsis receiving in Greece’s public debate by paying a visit to the Supreme Court prosecutor that is overseeing the investigation into the phonetapping claims. Tsipras’s visit to Isidoros Dogiakos came in the wake of the latest allegations published by weekly Documento newspaper over the weekend
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Greece in 2014: The risks and opportunities of moving forward
Agorais a regular contributor to The Agora section of Macropolis. You can follow Jens on Twitter: @Jens_Bastian... example, then it can be found in what has happened in Riga during the past five years. The reward... can be seen as two sides of the same coin. Both offer political elites a unique opportunity
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SYRIZA's only chance
Agora“We want people on the streets, we want you to protest,” SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras told the crowd at his last campaign speech in Athens on Thursday. He and his party envision that popular will can... argument. Greece can only win over European decision makers by making it clear what it has to offer
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