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A breakdown of what Tsipras and European lenders agreed to
EconomyProgrammeof areas with a clean timetable for legislation and implementation: o Carry out ambitious pension... deficit clause to be implemented retrospectively as of January 1, 2015. o Adopt a series of product... as opening of closed professions like ferry transportation. o Privatisation of the Independent
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Greece and lenders with conceptual, as well as practical, gaps to bridge
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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What next for Tsipras the shapeshifter?
Agoraof 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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Politicians increasingly focussing on post-MoU landscape
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe 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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Deal or no deal? Greece wrestles with the Macedonia issue
Agorakills 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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Government feels the heat over investigation on anniversary of Tempe rail crash
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat “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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You've heard the Greek crisis myths, now here are some truths
Agoraout 26 billion euros for Greece. When one bears in mind that the EU contribution to the Greek... (although it should be noted that the troika, even belatedly, has signed off on the disbursement of all..., 118 euros to every Slovenian and 141 euros to every Spaniard. Greece also owes 15.2 billion euros
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Troika inquiry: talk to the organ grinder, not the monkey
Agorastops” 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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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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Strong showing in local elections for ND as it targets majority in national vote
PoliticsGreek Politicscandidate Giorgos Patoulis easily beat off SYRIZA’s incumbent, Rena Dourou with around two thirds... Kostas Bakoyiannis, the nephew of party leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis. Bakoyiannis beat off the challenge.... Despite the blow in Thessaloniki, New Democracy will be satisfied with the results of the second
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