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Between Scylla and Charybdis
Agorawith the troika and a swift deal with better terms. This is where Alexis Tsipras’s logic loses me... in a better negotiating position and that the other side will be in any way inclined to offer him a deal... attempt to get a better deal, a weak symbolic gesture calling for the end to austerity that is likely
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Tsipras has until Sunday to keep Greece in euro, must pass measures immediately
PoliticsGreek Politicsall the EU members. He said this would be needed because in the case of a failure to reach a deal... in January and now leaves his government with a huge task over the coming days. The details of the deal are still not known but it appears that the framework will involve a short-term bridging deal
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Tsipras denies Grexit plan, has work to do to keep Greece in euro
PoliticsGreek Politicsand booed by others, the prime minister insisted that a deal could be reached by the Sunday deadline set.... A government non-paper stressed that the new deal would cover Greece for a longer period than... for Tsipras in his efforts to convince his party to reach a deal. The swift attempt to put
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On the Greek crisis and German imbalances
Agora, Greece is faced with an impossible deal, which is nevertheless the best deal it can currently have... a sustainable deal as eurozone partners came to trust the Greek state more. At that future point, it would be important for Germany to view improvements in the currently negotiated unsustainable deal
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Tsipras and Meimarakis face off, bristle at idea of working together
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe start of the brief campaign is that he is more moderate in his approach to the bailout deal his government agreed with lenders in August. From virtually disowning the deal a few weeks ago, when he described it as a “bad agreement,” Tsipras has now begun stressing the deal’s “good points,” including
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Newsletter 66 - 11/03/2016
on the European Union and Turkey being able to reach a deal to tackle the refugee crisis when... problem for the government, especially if the deal with Turkey does not materialise or fails to work when.... Europe appears ready to come together and hold its nose to get the deal done but there is still
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Greece braces for complex EU-Turkey summit on refugee plan
PoliticsForeign Policyinvolved in the EU clinching a deal with Turkey so refugees can be resettled directly from Greece’s... Donald Tusk said on Tuesday following talks in Nicosia and Ankara that the migrant deal “still needs...–Turkey deal as a number of other countries have raised objections. Another obstacle lies
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EU progress on Turkish visas gives Athens hope of low refugee arrivals
PoliticsForeign Policyand resettlement scheme if the EU stalled on its end of the deal. There are clearly still many problems... at the Moria camp on Lesvos after the EU-Turkey deal was signed and the site became a closed facility. Moria... of positive publicity for Greece’s efforts to deal with the refugee crisis. Once the spotlight had
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Newsletter 80 - 01/07/2016
problem to deal with upon his return, as Shipping Minister Theodoros Dritsas has been singled out... privatisation deal known for some time and he has been frequently criticised for obstructing its... was a mandate for him to return to the negotiating table to seek a better deal, not one to turn his back
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Greek, Turkish foreign ministers hold informal talks as refugee crisis, Cyprus loom
PoliticsForeign Policywith the implementation of the EU–Turkey deal and Athens is concerned that if the deadline... to keep this deal alive.” “What they (the Turkish side) are underlining is that the EU should keep its part of the deal. We make every possible effort that all sides respond to that has been agreed
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