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Ladies and gentlemen, please fasten your seat belts
AgoraEarlier this year, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras held an informal dinner with some of his party’s... for the skies. Instead, Samaras is bracing for impact. It’s true that a number of indices, from economic sentiment to bond spreads, have improved over recent months. The troika’s fiscal targets, meanwhile
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Public deficit and democratic duty
Agorato educate themselves in economics to an extent so that they make enlightened decisions.” In Greece’s... article on Sunday, quoting an allegedly secret report by officials at Greece’s General Accounting Office and the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT), claims that the country’s deficit figure in 2009
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Newsletter 17 - 27/02/2015
Alexis Tsipras was mulling on Friday whether to bring the agreement with Greece’s lenders... MPs. A length meeting of SYRIZA’s parliamentary group on Wednesday revealed that as many as 30 of the party’s lawmakers, including several cabinet members, had serious reservations about the deal
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Newsletter 79 - 24/06/2016
and 1.8 billion for the clearance of arrears. Two days later, in an expected move, the ECB’s... income on an annual basis. The ECB’s decision also noted that the governing council will examine at a later stage Greece’s eligibility for the ECB quantitative easing (QE) programme, subject to “progress
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Check, please: How much Alexis Tsipras's first months cost Greece
Agoraobjectives and found himself at odds with Greece’s creditors over his decision to hand out a 13th pension. The conflicting interests of key stakeholders in Greece’s programme did not converge and the last... this year. Most critically, the main goal of being included in the European Central Bank’s QE
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Newsletter 164 -08/06/2018
, bond issue on hold Two meetings of the Washington Group of Greece’s key lenders have failed to deliver..., referencing the agreement reached at last June’s Eurogroup. The other debt relief measures under... in the third programme’s financial envelope to buy out the loans that the IMF has made to Greece
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Newsletter 189 -11/01/2018
on to ratify the diplomatic settlement, which will see the Balkan country’s name change to North... of the majority of MPs. In this case, elections could be held as late as October. Tsipras’s gambit seems... that he will allow his party’s seven MPs to vote “according to conscience” in the confidence vote
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No late rally for Tsipras
Agorato the relatively small crowd of SYRIZA supporters before Sunday’s European and local elections... to around 30 percent and keeping the margin of the opposition party’s victory down to around 5-6... poll for the centre-right party. The crushing nature of the defeat, which saw SYRIZA’s share
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Newsletter 267 -02/10/2020
action on Turkey The migration This week’s political agenda was dominated by the visit to Greece of US... naval presence in Crete’s Souda Bay. Pompeo’s presence there on Tuesday is clearly connected to Washington’s decision to increase their military “footprint” in all bases that were included
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Ruling party tension boils over as Mitsotakis ousts ex-PM and right wing figurehead Samaras
PoliticsGreek Politicsposition. In the interview with Sunday’s To Vima, Samaras suggested that Gerapetritis should be “sent... a “sellout” for trying to find a resolution to Greece’s differences with Turkey. Samaras also argued... of “moving in the opposite direction to the rest of the world.” Since New Democracy’s result in the June
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