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Unease mounts as Greece prepares to implement EU-Turkey refugee deal
PoliticsForeign PolicyGreece is set to take on Friday the next step in preparing for the implementation of the European... weeks of their arrival. A reception secretariat with 500 personnel will be set up to take care... on the Greek side so the process of resettling one refugee from Turkey for every one that is sent back
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EU progress on Turkish visas gives Athens hope of low refugee arrivals
PoliticsForeign Policycitizens might undermine cooperation on the migrant issue are set to be allayed this week. Reuters reported on Sunday that the European Commission is set to announce on Wednesday that “Turkey has broadly... as long as the number of arrivals remains low. Since the EU-Turkey “one in, one out” deal was clinched
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Greek tourism: Hopeful yet uncertain for 2016
EconomyFeaturesa more mixed picture. Tourism represents one of Greece’s most important sources of revenue, constituting..., predicts that direct tourism contributions will reach around 9.3 percent of GDP contribution. One... the added complication of a refugee crisis. Finally, Greek lawmakers are eyeing a new set of tax
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Potential changes to constitution and electoral law move onto main agenda
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe government looks set to present its proposals regarding changes to the Greek constitution... not be drawn on what proposals the coalition plans to make, although one of the changes the government... for around a year. It is also not clear exactly when the suggestions will be set out by the government
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Shaping the post-programme narrative in Greece
Agorain July 2018 when the third programme is due to expire. On the one hand, preparation will then either... with financing resources of its own in the third programme, one must be mindful of the following... for countries participating in financing arrangements for Greece. The first set of measures focuses
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Schaeuble presents Athens with stark reality of programme without IMF
PoliticsGreek Politicsin which one would need to come up with something new. I wouldn’t recommend this to the Greek government... mechanism set up last year. Government sources continued to refer to the IMF’s departure as possibly opening... together a set of proposals aimed at clinching a compromise over the review indicates that it still
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Bill for out-of-court workout ready but may need tweaks
EconomyProgramme-of-court workout, which is one of the key deliverables of the second programme review and also.... The institutions had requested this threshold to be set at 50,000 euros. The government proposes... by the end of 2019. Specific quarterly targets have been set for the period in question. Therefore
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Newsletter 118 - 12/05/2017
for a vote on the draft legislation by the end of next week. The initial schedule set out by parliamentary... falls into a grey area. The precedent set during similar situations in previous years means... indicated that one of these subjects is the immunity for bank executives who approve
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Tsipras in tight spot over debt deal but QE access may hold key to compromise
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe Greek government seems intent on trying to forge a better deal with its lenders than the one... be willing to accept a compromise along the lines of the one proposed to Tsakalotos in Brussels last... and little else to show for having voted through Parliament a highly unpopular set of measures
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Newsletter 125 -30/06/2017
kind of credit line. This claim will undoubtedly have set off the alarm bells among Greece’s lenders... set himself another target that will be near-impossible for him to meet and will only lead to further... not materialise is one of the reasons that the Greek public appears unimpressed by the June 15 Eurogroup
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