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Privatisation plan inches along as groups express interest in DESFA
EconomyProgrammeheadaches for Greek governments Nearly every major privatisation deal has been troubled by delays... SOCAR, the preferred bidder, withdrew. The total deal was worth 400 million. Its collapse left... of 17 percent of its stake to meet the conditions for its first bailout in 2011. Since then, the deal
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PM looks for positives as Eurogroup and oil spill cause concern
PoliticsGreek Politicsof the eurozone and investments. The deal to sell rail operator TrainOSE to Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane... is reportedly poised to invest up to 500 million euros in TrainOSE. The signing of the deal provided... damage means that Tsipras has another image crisis to deal with.
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Tsipras returns from US with positive sentiment but absence of tangible results
PoliticsForeign Policyrevealed during the news conference on Tuesday that Greece is set to agree a 2.4-billion-euro deal..., the announcement of the deal, which will see the US-made fighter jets that Greece owns being transformed... but to the USA.” Regional role On Trump’s part, he tied the prospective F-16 deal in with Greece’s
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Newsletter 136 - 20/10/2017
upgrade deal Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras returned from his lengthy trip to the USA, which included... was devoted to a prospective deal for Greece to upgrade dozens of F-16 fighter jets in the US... of the programme. Tzanakopoulos said on Thursday that the deal to upgrade 85-95 of the 160 F-16 jets Greece owns
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Greece and Albania hold private talks to tackle longstanding differences
PoliticsForeign Policyand on which ones there had been progress. Greece is aiming to finalise the deal with Albania... 2010, when Albania’s Constitutional Court annulled an earlier maritime border deal signed... a common political or judicial framework, are being discussed as a package deal. Analysts with good
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Erdogan visit leaves Athens with much to ponder, no visible signs of progress
PoliticsForeign Policyas the Eastern Aegean islands, which involves bypassing the 2016 EU–Turkey refugee deal. The Greek... for the implementation of such a measure, because it runs contrary to the EU-Turkey deal. The original deal
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Tsipras and Mitsotakis head in opposite directions over talks with Skopje
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPanos Kammenos, who says he is opposed to any deal that involves the use of the term “Macedonia... no effort to create political consensus about a potential deal at home because he does not want... reject a deal that fulfils the criteria set out by New Democracy when it was in power between 2004
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Political confrontation as Novartis case transferred to Parliament
PoliticsGreek Politicsis the investigation into the actions of Defence Minister Panos Kammenos in connection to a botched deal... that there was something crooked about the 66-million-euro deal and that the Saudis may have decided to only... by the Saudis and has underlined that no money changed hands as the deal fell through.
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They have a name for it
Agora. However, it is far from a done deal. The agreement will only be operative when the Parliaments of both... their severe reservations with regard to the deal. In particular, they are concerned with the facts... parliaments are asked to ratify the deal, there might not be the necessary majorities in either
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Privatisation projects gather pace as Athens targets 2 bln in revenue for 2018
EconomyProgrammeof Greece’s main airport comprises of a concession deal and the sale of a 30 percent stake. The latter... General for Competition (DG Comp). Permission was finally granted last week, meaning the deal can now... of buying up Shell’s stake in the Attica Gas corporation. The deal represented a necessary step
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