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FM heads to Ankara for rare talks as Greece and Turkey court Libya
PoliticsForeign Policy. The EU has also underlined that any steps will be taken gradually and remain reversible until June when...-Turkish agreement has no legal force and must be cancelled. The possible resumption of talks between... Ministry noted last Saturday. “The choice of time of the occurrence of such non-existent and blatant
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Credit origination and transmission: Are Greek banks part of the problem or the solution?
Agoraof the accumulated stock of NPLs could be sold. The stock exceeded 65 billion euros in mid-2013 and has not yet reached its peak. A more positive perspective on distressed debt management has not been helped... ratios require domestic lenders to step up their provisioning, thus binding already scarce capital
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Newsletter 22 - 03/04/2015
government has a relatively easier but still challenging task to meet its April obligations. According... of that, Greece has to roll over two T-Bill issues totalling 2.4 billion. The first involves 6-month T-Bills... consideration of 150–200 Senior government figures have said the country has enough cash to cover its
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After an international agreement comes the domestic politics
Agora) counterpart Zoran Zaev will hold. In the short-term, Zaev has committed to putting the deal to a referendum... on both sides. Skopje has apparently accepted that it will have to change the country’s name from..., in other words domestically and internationally. Furthermore, Zaev has agreed to review his country’s
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Newsletter 444 - 06/12/2024
by the state intelligence service. The PM has tried to draw a line under the affair by promising an investigation, but the PASOK leader has accused him of trying to sweep it under the carpet without... to disagree on specific policy proposals that PASOK has been putting forward in recent days, including
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The key points from lenders' proposals to Greece
EconomyProgrammepercent for 2018 and beyond, the government has to implement fiscal measures of 1.67 percent of GDP... that the government has proposed to be suspended until 2016. 4) Phase-out the solidarity grant (EKAS) for all...). The government will announce binding bid dates for the two ports and for Trainose. In addition
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Piraeus eyes major NPE deal as banks remain focused on bad loans
EconomyMacroeconomyof the 500 million euros Tier II issue that the bank has planned to raise capital as part of its... the economy to normalcy, positive sentiment has sprung from the fact that international bidders have shown... the two contenders, submitted non-binding bids which are being evaluated by Piraeus Bank. The preferred
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BoG and HFSF schemes under scrutiny as banks look for a way forward on bad loans
EconomyBankinghas also put forward a proposal by the Hellenic Financial Stability Fund (HFSF), which involves... of the BoG, Yiannis Stournaras, has said that banks will support the adoption of whichever of the two... strong interest. The portfolio contains around 2 billion euros-worth of housing loans. Non-binding
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Tsipras gauges EU mood on Brexit as gov't strives for support on change to electoral system
PoliticsForeign Policyfor the winning party would have to remain. New Democracy has proposed something along the same lines... a government after future elections, the Communist Party (KKE) has also declared its opposition... to be adopted immediately. The Union of Centrists (9 MPs) has said it will back the overhaul. Its
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PASOK launches attempt to form alliance that would rival SYRIZA
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPASOK leader Fofi Gennimata has initiated a process aimed at creating a new centre-left alliance..., he has been suffering from serious health problems, but it is not clear if he will receive... to challenge Gennimata, who has failed to convince some within the party that she can offer anything
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