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  1. Beyond economic policy, new Greek coalition starts setting out agenda

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    on Sunday, all the attention has fallen on whether Greece will be able to reach an agreement with its... but did not indicate what, if any, action would be taken. Public order The government aims... The government has pledged to provide free or subsidised healthcare for all Greeks, including those

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  2. Newsletter 25 - 08/05/2015

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    will need to tap additional funding sources in order to meet external obligations of 2.5 billion... of a single VAT rate of 18 percent for almost all goods and services – it is difficult to imagine... pensions and having to implement a zero deficit rule that will lead to all of these auxiliary

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  3. An impossible choice

    Agora

    . If the reader feels confused about all these developments, you are in good company. The twists and turns.... They are at the receiving end of all these erratic developments. They have to digest the call for a referendum on Sunday 5... of their surname, in order to access their account. For a government that proclaimed the word “dignity

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  4. SYRIZA seems to be mulling a switch in Greece's energy policy
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    PoliticsForeign Policy

    that will help all the involved parties to overcome pending issues related to TAP (Trans Adriatic Pipeline... sees Greece as a strategic partner in energy issues and would encourage dialogue that could help all... to concern the US, which is willing – according to Hochstein - to help the negotiating process in order

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  5. Tsipras upbeat after vote, Eurogroup but deal details may still present problems
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    all this legislation through Parliament in such a short space of time will be a challenge for Tsipras but he undoubtedly feels emboldened by the fact that all 153 coalition MPs voted for the pension... minister to order spending cuts if it is confirmed in April that the budget was off course

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  6. Tsipras sets out social policy goals in last stage of effort to shift political debate
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    contribution at all, and the retirees being excused from having to make a 6 percent contribution to healthcare costs (this was increased for all pensioners from 4 percent as part of the measures passed... with the institutions, onto the agenda. New Democracy seems to feel that the law and order issue in particular could

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  7. The great turn-off: Greece's TV permits auction

    Agora

    as a supposed effort to establish some order in the opaque world of Greek broadcasting had descended... was greeted with the launching of legal action by all and sundry against the government and each..., all this was absent from the process, making the tender for TV licences a series of missed

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  8. Newsletter 91 - 07/10/2016

    Newsletters

    fire from all directions, could not allow resentment to fester and risk the coalition being viewed... and cigarettes (including electronic) all converge in the aim to increase annual revenue... in order to avoid paying due taxes. They are essentially freeriding on the back of their overburdened

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  9. Lavrov visit yields little for Athens, which denies Iranian bank veto
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    PoliticsForeign Policy

    that “in all cases, the international law that derives from international conventions should be respected... European partners about all matters related to Iran’s provocative activities in support for terrorism... order to be implemented. The court allowed the EU to maintain the asset freeze for six months under

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  10. Obama ends with big picture amid dwindling hope
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    Agora

    of this crisis that in order to make reforms sustainable, the Greek economy needs the space to return to growth... Greece on a path towards a durable economic recovery, because it is in all of our interests that Greece succeeds,” he said after his meeting with Tsipras on Tuesday. “We all want the Greek people

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