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  1. Eurogroup paves way for completion of third review, talks on debt relief

    EconomyProgramme

    ,” said Tsakalotos. However, the attempt to settle the prior actions got off to a bumpy start on Monday... and the national union decided to call off the action after receiving reassurances from the government regarding... margin for 2017, related to the EFSF debt buy-back loan) the Luxembourg-based organisation

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  2. Mitsotakis bids for nation's soul, Tsipras ramps up handouts
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    to work due to the damage inflicted by the flooding would receive a one-off benefit payment of 600... would receive a one-off payment of 400 euros. It is estimated that there could be up to 55,000 claimants. Opposition politicians immediately accused the government of trying to buy voters’ support

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  3. Greece and lenders with conceptual, as well as practical, gaps to bridge
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    , which saw Athens receive loans largely to pay off debt after meeting tough fiscal targets and executing... that struck a compromise straight away, his tactict of being steadfast paid off. We should accept... to secure some kind of deal. In reality, SYRIZA would be satisfied with an agreement that allows

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  4. What next for Tsipras the shapeshifter?
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    Agora

    of ways to dangle Greece off the edge of a cliff. Either way, Tsipras may have elicited a much more... favour with Angela Merkel at every opportunity, Tsipras’s persona and priorities have fluctuated... been discussed until now. There is also another important aspect to the complex equation; for some

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  5. Politicians increasingly focussing on post-MoU landscape
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    the government that believes Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras would be better off allowing... that he backs this option. “Time is on the government’s side and every month that passes makes things... work with the centre-left, then PASOK and Democratic Left (DIMAR). The interesting aspect about

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  6. Deal or no deal? Greece wrestles with the Macedonia issue
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    Agora

    kills off chances for reasoned discussion. But to compound matters, the public debate in Greece has... and seeped into every corner. Beyond the politicians’ slanging matches, much of the commentary... about what the alternatives are likely to be. This aspect is glaringly absent from the public debate

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  7. Government feels the heat over investigation on anniversary of Tempe rail crash
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    that “ample light” would be shed on every aspect of the crash. In recent days, the families of victims... off the perception that its instinct was to prioritise its political survival over the lives

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  8. Can the Green Transition be just?
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    Agora

    of Ukraine, it promptly announced the REPowerEU plan, the main aim of which is to wean Europe off... on central heating systems from 2026 onwards and a variety of financial tools and loans offering... essentially the same qualitative challenge that we will have to face every year from 2027 onwards

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  9. Troika inquiry: talk to the organ grinder, not the monkey

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    stops” in Europe. Capital turned and fled for home, cutting off liquidity for one periphery country... risks. But contagion happened anyway, because markets didn’t buy the strategy. The unrealism... discovers every time it tries to talk to Germany about forgiving some of Greece’s debt. The European

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  10. 21,717,120,000
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    Agora

    . At the end of 2009 a Swiss franc would buy you just under 70 euro cents. This shot up to 97 cents... from the euro mess. Four years on, its treasury is actually better off and has been a net... of guarantees. It all started with the bilateral loans to Greece which every country apart from

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