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Banks and government inching towards new framework to protect primary homes
EconomyProgrammeindicated that all those involved agreed that there has to be an agreement in the coming days..., the idea of a horizontal haircut for non-performing mortgages has been dropped. Instead, the scheme... homeowners have to repay each month. It has set aside 150 million euros this year for this purpose
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ND forced to compromise over demonstration bill, feeding SYRIZA's claims
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe government has been forced to make changes to the bill aimed at regulating street... to New Democracy, which has repeatedly rebuffed SYRIZA’s attempts to label it as having tendencies... behind a thin veneer of liberalism. The recent furore over the handouts to local media outlets has
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Athens hoping for period of calm in Greek-Turkish relations after PM's talks with Erdogan
PoliticsForeign Policythe backdrop of the war in Ukraine, which has allowed the two sides to discuss as “NATO partners” and “pillars... for this autumn. It will be the fifth meeting of this council, which was first convened in 2010 and has... is counting on LNG supplies and has also stressed the need to speed up the exploitation of offshore oil
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Mitsotakis prepares to meet Erdogan, hoping to build on recent momentum
PoliticsForeign Policyof restoring trust and to build on the positive atmosphere that has been created since the deadly..., the Greek Premier talked about a period which has created an opportunity for progress in the Greek-Turkish... surrounding The Hague are still premature. He noted that “Turkey currently has an interest in getting
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Greece's ultimate sacrifice for stability
Agorato answer about the company he keeps, even now that Baltakos has departed from the government... of double agent, giving Golden Dawn MPs harmless morsels in order to glean information from them. One has..., the man charged with leading Greece out of the crisis, arrives at his policy decisions. He has surrounded
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Newsletter 12 - 23/01/2015
. Opinion polls over the last few days suggest that SYRIZA has been growing its lead over New Democracy... these obligations. However, since Greece has already reached the 15-billion threshold agreed with the troika, the new government would have to request from its lenders that the limit be raised. This has been
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The enemy within
AgoraThere has been much gnashing of teeth over the last few days after coalition MP Giorgos Kyritsis... on the “have nots”. So far, so good. After all, this is a sentiment that has been expressed repeatedly... a governing politician have to gain by stressing these divisions when he has been elected to lead
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The allocation of labor resources in Greece and the EU-27
Agoraemployment has grown or declined in the public and private sectors since early 2001. From figure 1.... But since 2014, employment in the public sector has resumed its growth path. It has accelerated....[2] By contrast, labour allocation in the private sector has seen quite a different trajectory
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Parties hone strategies ahead of confidence vote
PoliticsGreek PoliticsSYRIZA has attempted to raise the political stakes following this week’s snowstorm by triggering..., has resisted these efforts and has attempted to absolve himself of any blame, suggesting.... SYRIZA officials suggest that forcing Mitsotakis to answer criticism about all these issues, as well
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PASOK and SYRIZA turn up heat on govt as surveillance case realigns political forces
PoliticsGreek Politicsof the questions the SYRIZA camp has insisted on getting an answer to is how wide a net EYP’s surveillance cast... of the centre-left opposition has accused them of dragging their feet and victim-blaming. In his... and was being “shown the exit door” by the country’s democratic majority. The government has been
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