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  1. Greece unveils MTFS seeing 4.2 bln primary surplus in 2014 but just under 2 bln fiscal gap in 2015-16
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    EconomyMacroeconomy

    sale. For 2014, privatization revenues are expected from the sale and lease back of 28 buildings... the preference shares granted in exchange of Pillar I bonds back in 2009, with total state proceeds at 1.8 billion. The MoF assumes that the remaining Greek banks will pay back their preference shares within

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  2. Greece stuck in the long tunnel of political transition
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    agenda in the hope of winning back disaffected supporters but has only managed to strengthen parties... about SYRIZA dragging Greece back to the dark ages rather than about the government pulling the country out of the tunnel and towards the light. “Only an accident can take Greece back again and SYRIZA

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  3. Bid to form alliance for PPC referendum tests SYRIZA's political mettle
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    of 300 MPs so Parliament can discuss the proposal. It then needs another 180 lawmakers to back... it would back SYRIZA's proposal. Even though the two parties lie on opposite sides of the political... and the Communist Party (KKE), which has 12 lawmakers, to back the proposal. However, a discussion

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  4. Karatzaferis offers to boost New Democracy's right wing with LAOS alliance
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    . Although Karatzaferis quit the coalition in February 2012 after he refused to back the second.... It was enough to put LAOS back in the game and make New Democracy wonder whether some kind of alliance... parties to cooperate, particularly with the aim of drawing back right-wing support that has drifted

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  5. Greek debt: A case of learned helplessness?
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    back in 1967. They initially observed helpless behaviour in dogs that were conditioned to expect... to pay back 88.3 billion euros of long-term debt via troika financing and a gradual return to markets... back in 2010 is beyond any doubt and without the eurozone and IMF loans a default would have been

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  6. Stalled troika talks stretching Greek coalition cohesion to limits

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    Parliament elections in May. The Socialists, in particular, have been reluctant to back major... there is for the two parties to remain bound to each other. Hardouvelis hits back Amid the tension, Finance...) introduced in August and the back-and-forth with the troika over legislation on payment plans

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  7. Could Democratic Left (DIMAR) hold the key to the Greek presidential election result?
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    decided several weeks ago that the group would not back the coalition’s candidate. Instead... in the party it would free up those disagreeing with Kouvelis’s strategy to back the government’s... of the 24 independent MPs will not back the coalition’s candidate for president, Stavros Dimas

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  8. The possible scenarios for avoiding snap elections in Greece
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    himself to help the prime minister but there would have to be some kind of back up plan in place... believe that the elder statesmen may see a chance to pay him back in kind now, perhaps with his daughter... into government and has put the opposition on the back foot, trying to defend its plans. It has also

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  9. Newsletter 8 - 19/12/2014

    Newsletters

    Melas, who voted “present”, indicated he would back Dimas in the next votes. Also, four absentees... that some of these lawmakers may be looking for an excuse to back the former EU commissioner because... has long abandoned its flirtation with the idea of going back to the drachma. Moscovici was a little

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  10. Newsletter 9 - 30/12/2014

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    has come on the back of heightened fears about what consequences a SYRIZA election victory might... as occurred in mid-2012 when only back-to-back general elections proved decisive. Irrespective

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