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Tsipras to meet Merkel amid search for political backing
PoliticsGreek Politicswith EU leaders rather than a technocratic one with eurozone finance ministers. The coalition... Draghi at the EU Council this week in a bid to reach the solution that Athens desires. One of the key... allows great flexibility on the primary surplus target for this year. One of Finance Minister Yanis
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Newsletter 20 - 20/03/2015
money market funds) and one-quarter was sent abroad. Before the June 2012 elections, around 60... in Brussels, where the most recent one took place on Thursday. It is important to point out... of Berlin as the location for the meeting is a reasonable one and Merkel’s initiative
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Approach to protests, policing poses a new quandary for government
PoliticsGreek PoliticsDemocracy leader Antonis Samaras made one of his few public statements since the elections as a result... is certainly one where the conservatives feel they can eat away at the strong support for the government... that Panousis is one of the few members of the cabinet that is not a SYRIZA member. He was an MP
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Newsletter 23 - 17/04/2015
portfolio deterioration accelerates Non-performing loans grew by possibly €3bn in Q1 2015 One of the most... uncertainty is having on the real economy has gone somewhat unnoticed. One clear effect has been... by one notch to “CCC+/C”. It estimated that the Greek economy has shrunk by 1 percent over the last six
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Will SYRIZA accept the proposal from Greece's lenders?
![Photo by Myrto Papadopoulos (www.myrtopapadopoulos.com]](resources/toolip/img-thumb/2013/11/13/syrizaflags_1000_myrto_1211-medium.jpg "Photo by Myrto Papadopoulos (www.myrtopapadopoulos.com]")
Agora, there is one question that everyone wants the answer to: Will SYRIZA MPs support the deal? The problem.... The best that one can do at the moment is look for signals regarding how SYRIZA members and MPs might... damage. This means there are two distinct ways of reading what is going on in SYRIZA right now. One
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Tsipras keeps IMF waiting, turns focus to MPs and opposition
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAlexis Tsipras is due to speak in Greek Parliament at 6.30 p.m. local time on Friday in one of the defining political appearances of his career and one that is likely to have a pivotal impact... billion euros in bailout funds were “much less painful.” The SYRIZA chief may also have one eye on his
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Greek negotiations: A marathon that has yet to run its course
Agoraits end game, one way or the other. To the spectator in the theatre of Greek and European politics... one is following on Twitter. Equally, extensive rebranding exercises have taken place in order... their negotiations strategy. For one, SYRIZA was given a convincing mandate for a change of course in Greece
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The main political scenarios ahead for Greece should it reach a deal with lenders
PoliticsGreek Politicsit will represent one of the most creative moves by Greek governments during the crisis to avoid inflicting more... commitment from lenders regarding debt relief than the one his predecessor Antonis Samaras was given... than the previous one led by Samaras. This should be enough to support one of Kammenos’s main arguments
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Yes to the referendum, no to the way it's being held
Agoraleader George Papandreou to hold one before signing the first memorandum of understanding with creditors five years ago. In late 2011, when Papandreou proposed holding one, Tsipras was against..., it has also prevented a credible opposition from emerging – one that is able to put forward
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Newsletter 38 - 07/08/2015
pensioners, were initially left without any option. After a few days, the government allowed almost one... to an increase of around 10 percent in just one month on the outstanding number of cards before... the number of card payments per capita, Greece’s figure stood at 6.9, less than one-tenth the EU average
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