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Athens resumes contact with Ankara as interest in FYROM referendum grows
PoliticsForeign Policystandards regarding Turkey’s European course.” “I always stress that a European Turkey, a Turkey that is a member state of the European Union, will be the greatest gain for Greece,” said Kotzias. “I cannot imagine the future of the European Union without this special connection with Turkey. But we
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Mixed picture for government after first day of talks with creditors
EconomyProgrammeovershadowed by comments from European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker. Following his State of the Union address in Strasbourg, Juncker held an interview with 12 European media. In response... have to be implemented.” This will have come as a shock to the Greek government as the European
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Take your seats
AgoraThe rows of empty seats at the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Tuesday as Alexis Tsipras spoke about Greece and European politics were in stark contrast to the tension-packed encounter he had... 1 and to the European Commission on October 15. If the government is not able to reach a compromise
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Newsletter 175 -21/09/2018
families from next year. Athens also argues that the European Commission’s Ageing Report shows the Greek... discussed with European banking authorities at between 50 and 40 billion euros by the end of 2021... newspaper at the start of September, the European Central Bank’s Governing Council member Benoit
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Privatisation revenues edge upward as end-of-year deadline looms
EconomyFeaturescompleted this year, including the sale of Thessaloniki Port, which the USA and Greece’s European partners... qualified for the second round of the tender. The minister’s outburst came after the European... to 1.16 billion. The completion of the transaction is subject to approvals by the competent European
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Greece scores low on index for skills development, activation and matching
SocietyGreece has scored poorly in the first European Skills Index (ESI) released by the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (Cedefop). Cedefop works with the European Commission, EU... the ideal. In the current report which is based on 2016 data, Greece ranked 27th out of 28 European Union
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Athens and lenders yet to agree on how to drop pension cuts without creating fiscal gap
EconomyMacroeconomyComments by European Stability Mechanism managing director Klaus Regling have underlined... recent reports, which suggested that the European Commission and the Greek government are in talks over... that the gap is 200-300 million euros and that a team of experts from the European Commission may visit
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Lenders focus on closing any fiscal gap for 2019 ahead of November 19 Eurogroup
EconomyProgramme. “The fiscal space seems to be there,” said European Economic Affairs Commissioner Pierre Moscovici.... And, then, how it can be used. This is still being discussed.” Like Moscovici and Centeno, European Stability... from the European officials appears to be that Athens will be allowed to call of the 1 percent of GDP
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Newsletter 183 -16/11/2018
) technocrats to the European Commission’s assertion that Athens will still be able to meet its 3.5 percent..., this will mean that 700 million euros from the profits of Greek bonds held by the European Central Bank... into Thursday’s EWG, it was reported that the European Commission and Athens had not yet bridged
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Pension deal rekindles speculation about election date
PoliticsGreek Politics, just before or at the same time as European Parliament and local elections, which are due towards... the European and local elections, where SYRIZA could also suffer defeats. Having seen New Democracy Kostas Karamanlis and Antonis Samaras suffer defeats in European Parliament votes in 2009 and 2014
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