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Newsletter 37 - 31/07/2015
, with less than three weeks left in which the various sides should – theoretically – come to an agreement... forecast for a 1 percent surplus. Beyond that, the various parties have to get down to discussing... than 12 years, since November 2003. In addition, June outflows are the third biggest since last
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Tsipras and Meimarakis face off, bristle at idea of working together
PoliticsGreek PoliticsEvangelos Meimarakis was much livelier than a discussion involving seven party leaders last week... on the idea of SYRIZA being a new force that could “get rid of the old system” and the corruption associated with it. Given that some polls show Meimarakis as being more popular than Tsipras, the SYRIZA leader
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Key factors to look out for when Greek election results come in
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe winning part is expected to get no more than 33 percent of the vote and, therefore, less than 140... of government could be formed. Margin of victory A small margin of victory (less than around 2
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EU-Turkey refugee agreement: A life saver or a dud?
Agorarather than help them float. In some ways, the agreement the European Union made with Turkey in Brussels... of a cash boost to provide better conditions for more than 2.2 million refugees in Turkey may prove... process in which it will always lose much more than it can gain. European leaders have decided to court
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Newsletter 66 - 11/03/2016
. Europe appears ready to come together and hold its nose to get the deal done but there is still... rendered it a shambles. Greece was promised that more than 60,000 people would be transferred over two years but less than 900 have been relocated since last year. However, even if the relocation
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EU-Turkey refugee plan: One for one and none for all
Agoraready to come together and hold its nose to get the deal done but there is still the potential... it a shambles. Greece was promised that more than 60,000 people would be transferred over two years but less than 900 have been relocated since last year. However, even if the relocation scheme worked more
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Tsipras plays to domestic gallery over IMF dispute
PoliticsGreek Politicsis undesirable. However, the rhetoric against the IMF did not get more aggressive than this, suggesting that the purpose of Monday evening’s exercise was to rally SYRIZA lawmakers rather than launch a concerted... painful and unfair than those that would have been adopted by a New Democracy government. At no point
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Newsletter 70 - 15/04/2016
are that the Greek government is keen to find a solution and to close the review as soon as possible. Rather than... be less stringent than if the IMF is involved. Also, the tabling of the legislation is not quite... is doing his utmost to get as good a deal as possible. Understandably, there is anxiety in the party
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Tsipras gets full support in pension and income tax vote, moves on to Eurogroup
PoliticsGreek Politics, appears to have been an attempt by the government to ensure its lawmakers would not get any cold... to focus on spending cuts rather than tax hikes if he comes to government. Tsipras admitted to being under..., rather than an indiscriminate mechanism triggering cuts in all ministries, and to be legislated now
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The enemy within
Agorathan those who voted No. Certainly, the pro-EU and anti-austerity gatherings of that period appeared... No than businesspeople or salaried professionals, for instance. The question, though, is what does... and under pressure from its international lenders, needs to get a foothold on the political rock face
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