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Newsletter 7 - 12/12/2014
safe conclusions from being drawn at this point. Samaras’s decision to switch the date... to back the coalition’s candidate, former EU commissioner Stavros Dimas. However, the initial reaction to Samaras’s unorthodox move was less than overwhelming. Whereas earlier some Democratic Left
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Newsletter 176 -28/09/2018
over next year’s pensions cuts diminished significantly this week, although the next few days could... Eurogroup until it finds out whether its request for next year’s pension cuts to be shelved will be accepted by the country’s lenders. A senior eurozone official told journalists in Brussels on Monday
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New frigate arrives to much fanfare as spotlight falls on Dendias, minister's aspirations
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe Greek Navy’s newest and most powerful vessel arrived in Salamina to much fanfare on Thursday. The ship’s appearance also put the spotlight on Defence Minister Nikos Dendias, one of the government’s most prominent figures and a politician whose name is consistently linked to potential future
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Boosted by polls, PM uses Iran war to reassert control, shut down election and reshuffle talk
PoliticsGreek Politicsto the government’s political strategy. Mitsotakis seems to be betting that voters anxious about war, prices... rapid decisions are required. Cyprus as proving ground The interview’s most expansive section focused on Cyprus, where Greece’s rapid deployment of two frigates and four F‑16s has become the nucleus
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Newsletter 16 - 20/02/2015
position showed a deficit of 217 million in January, exerting further pressure on the state’s cash..., following Greece’s pledge on Thursday to refrain from unilateral actions, it is highly unlikely that the institutions would agree to such an initiative, mainly due to the associated moral hazard. It’s
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Newsletter 19 - 13/03/2015
into the newly named “Brussels Group”. The renaming of the troika satisfies the Greek coalition’s... is the end of April. Greece’s lenders have said that part of these loans could be paid out earlier than.... This will help Athens’s liquidity shortage but is nowhere near enough to see it through April as well
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Newsletter 39 - 21/08/2015
a government, even if it is a minority administration. Meimarakis’s decision to use the three days... date of the elections, which are likely to be held on September 20 or 27. The New Democracy leader’s... to SYRIZA’s tune but it also allows a little more time for the prime minister to suffer wear and tear
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Newsletter 214 -12/07/2019
promised tax cuts Given New Democracy’s After winning a landslide victory in Sunday’s elections, Kyriakos... pieces of legislation that the new government will deliver. New Democracy’s 39.9 percent of the vote... in September 2015, while SYRIZA lost 145,614 voters, a drop of 7.6 percent. SYRIZA’s outcome was enough
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Newsletter 47 - 16/10/2015
The submission to Parliament of the government’s first multi-bill since the 20 September elections has... the government was not expected to run into any major problems. Coming so soon after SYRIZA’s resounding win in the elections, as well as the settling of accounts with the party’s radical wing, there has
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Newsletter 175 -21/09/2018
Mitsotakis at the Thessaloniki Expo (DETH) over the weekend quickly shifted this week to the government’s efforts to convince lenders that next year’s pension cuts should be cancelled. Finance Minister... the government’s position on the pension issue. The government believes that its consistent success
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