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Samaras buys some time with request for confidence vote
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PoliticsGreek PoliticsAmid growing speculation that he would call early elections, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras has... to Samaras if he wanted to call SYRIZA's bluff where to bring forward the presidential vote or to ask... for election. Obtaining the minimum of 180 votes will still be a tall order. The confidence vote
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Newsletter 42 - 11/09/2015
indicators suggest the result is still too close to call, either in terms of winners and losers... that these “outsiders” – if we may call them as such for the sake of the argument – care very much... front-page headlines, for the time being. In order to keep it that way, many representatives from
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Looking in on the Greek elections from the outside
Agorato call, either in terms of winners and losers, or regarding the configuration of any coalition..., this welcome restraint should not obscure the fact that these “outsiders” – if we may call them... dominant during the summer months – is not making front-page headlines, for the time being. In order
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Newsletter 91 - 07/10/2016
or a backdoor tax amnesty. The inability to enforce such schemes led the IMF this past month to call... in order to avoid paying due taxes. They are essentially freeriding on the back of their overburdened... – is prepared to call these practices into question and willing to do something about them. Instead, past
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Obama ends with big picture amid dwindling hope
Agoraof this crisis that in order to make reforms sustainable, the Greek economy needs the space to return to growth... negotiation, that could potentially be good for everyone.” Repeat calls His call for debt relief... and security developments have changed the background against which Washington’s call for debt
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Newsletter 98 - 02/12/2016
and we’ll stick to that: No more, no less,” insisted the Frenchman, who also hinted that Greece’s call... and social The EU's Economic Affairs Commissioner also hinted that Greece’s call for lower fiscal targets... measures are needed for 2018 and beyond in order to reach (and maintain) primary surplus targets of 2018
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Tsipras dismisses snap polls and new measures as review deal hangs in balance
PoliticsGreek Politics, appeared adamant that Athens should not have to go beyond what has already been agreed in order... are demanding.” Nevertheless, his confidence about not needing to call snap elections is based..., is for Tsipras to call snap elections in the hope that SYRIZA will be buoyed enough by its refusal to succumb
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Tsipras and Kammenos vow to stick together until further notice
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe coalition. In order to quell speculation that the government is heading for a collapse, Tsipras... and then call snap elections for May, which is thought to be his target anyway. This way, both leaders would..., while Tsipras would have a reason to call elections before the end of the government’s four-year
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Kammenos walks out on coalition, triggers confidence vote that will affect timing of elections
PoliticsGreek Politicsand wants all ANEL’s ministers to do the same. As a consequence, Tsipras said that he would call... is whether Kammenos will emerge with his parliamentary group intact. He needs to have five MPs in order...), there will be no pressure on him to call snap elections. The option will remain open to him, though, if he believes
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Questions persist about timing of general elections
PoliticsGreek Politicsleader may also call snap general elections at the same time. The conservatives want the government... of certain candidates could be put off voting because the party will decide the order in which... not to call snap elections in May, opting for a closed list in the European Parliament elections might
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