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Newsletter 15 - 13/02/2015
of availability and cost remains one of the most crucial issues. On the state front, the preliminary..., this is mostly due to extending the quarterly VAT payment by one month, until the end of February... supporters. “The left’s time has come,” chanted the crowd at one point during his speech. Without
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Newsletter 25 - 08/05/2015
, the Greek state concluded the first two of its May debt servicing payments. One was an interest.... The next key debt obligation involves a payment of around 750 million to the IMF on May 12, one day..., revenues outperformed their target by 488 million euros, mainly reflecting some one-off payments
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Newsletter 34 - 10/07/2015
cards. Their only option was to visit one of the 1,000 bank branches that opened as of July 1 to serve pensioners with deposit books only. Initially, a one-off withdrawal limit of 120 euros applied... in line calmly is an incredible sight. The one thing that is immediately noticeable is the silence. Few
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Newsletter 39 - 21/08/2015
one for Tsipras, who got his retaliation in first on Thursday, when he accused rebels of undermining... from the current government, President Pavlopoulos will appoint the head of one of Greece’s three... head the government that will have to tackle any problems caused by the implementation lag. The one
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Newsletter 46 - 09/10/2015
on Thursday about the possibility that the omnibus bill will only contain one article – a legislative... but that it would not necessarily contain one article. Popular Unity’s failure to enter Parliament is a useful tool for Tsipras to keep any critics within SYRIZA in check. The issue is likely to be one of the main
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Newsletter 51 - 12/11/2015
as the ceiling. The government has agonised over this decision as it knows that it will be one of the few... Schmidt did ensures he will be remembered as one of the most notable figures of postwar European..., there was an underlying integrity to what Schmidt did that ensured he will be remembered as one of the most notable
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Newsletter 54 - 04/12/2015
stems from 1.87 billion in uncollected SMP and ANFA income, while the reported figure includes a one-off... enough to stop migrants, rather than refugees, from travelling to other countries. One of the reasons... from an easy one. Greece returned 39 people to Pakistani but authorities in Islamabad rejected 26
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Holding out for a (reformist) hero
Agora. It is one thing to favour reforms and quite another to carry them out, especially in a country like Greece... place during the premiership of Papandreou, the one-time reformist knight now regarded as failure... factions and the liberal, reformist wing is by no means the dominant one, despite Mitsotakis’s win
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Newsletter 62 - 12/02/2016
confidence. “A plan built on over-optimistic assumptions will soon cause Grexit fears to resurface one again..., according to one new poll, Tsipras is banking on voters supporting his approach. However, the mounting... elections there have been three, making the number of such protests one of the few things in Greece
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Newsletter 63 - 19/02/2016
ability to offer the farmers a substantially different proposal from the one that will see... it feels will depend to a great extent on how the countries around it act. One issue related... in strengthening its two tripartite agreements with Cyprus and Egypt, on the one hand, and Cyprus and Israel
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