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Tsipras gets no encouragement from lenders, left to consider next move
PoliticsGreek PoliticsMinister Mark Rutte (who Tsipras met in Brussels on Thursday) are said to have made it clear... that the talks will not be over soon. Tsipras will have to consider all these aspects in the coming
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Key fiscal differences lower expectations for Eurogroup
PoliticsGreek Politicssurplus targets are met. According to the rumoured proposal, which reportedly came from the European side... after the programme expires in 2018. When all this is taken into account, it seems the best that Athens
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Tsipras facing limited options as he waits for signs from IMF
PoliticsGreek Politicsdeadline when eurozone finance ministers met last week. It seems that while there could be an agreement... government has 153 MPs, this would either involve getting all the deputies from PASOK, the Union
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Lenders make proposal to Athens but no immediate breakthrough expected
PoliticsGreek Politics. Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos met with the heads of the institutions and Eurogroup chief Jeroen..., Dijsselbloem described the talks as “constructive” and that “substantial progress” was made, leaving all
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Cyprus talks take a buffeting as leaders fall out
PoliticsForeign Policy-communal clashes in the 1960s that saw them withdraw from all the state bodies and move to enclaves... met with Akinci’s insistence that the decision be repealed. Anastasiades publicly admitted
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IMF comments, blog leave no doubt credible debt relief has to be agreed soon
EconomyProgrammesubject to credible fiscal targets being met is addressed towards Greece’s European lenders... will only sap the effectiveness of the debtor’s adjustment efforts, ultimately making all parties
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Tsipras defends compromise, appears optimistic on concluding review
PoliticsGreek Politics-measures. Tsipras said that it would all be agreed and legislated together, which appears to be what... in once the fiscal targets have been met. This is a point that the government has, presumably
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Athens braces for return of lenders, discussion about measures
PoliticsGreek PoliticsMinister Euclid Tsakalotos and government spokesman Dimitris Tzanakopoulos, have all suggested... year after 2019 is met. Alternate Finance Minister Giorgos Houliarakis was the first member
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Kotzias visit to Washington still leaves some doubts about US stance
PoliticsForeign Policyfrom its creditors,” Kotzias said when he concluded his two–day visit to Washington, where he met... foreign minister was not able to understand how the new US administration sees all these issues
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Athens and lenders stay mum on agreement, domestic reaction awaited
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat the Greek government will be able to implement if fiscal targets are met, the only remaining obstacles... and not hydroelectric ones. It is not yet clear how or if all the differences over labour reform have
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