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Standoff over civil servants in Greece bears hallmarks of pre-election clash
PoliticsGreek Politics. The minister says he will dismiss civil servants found to have used forged degrees to get their jobs or those who have committed offences while working in the public sector. Already this year more than 550 civil servants have been sacked after being found guilty of crimes. This is more than double
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‘We’re dying to pay our taxes’
Agorawas much worse than expected. Within months, the European Commission, European Central Bank and IMF..., but are far fewer and much smaller than anything seen in 2010, 2011 or 2012. Much of that anger against.... If others can get away with it, why can’t I, seems to be the view in many workplaces. One reporter says
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No prospect of compromise for entrenched Greek parties
PoliticsGreek Politicsin February is if it is clear he cannot get the 180 votes he needs and would want to avoid suffering... would like his government to benefit from any political goodwill this would create rather than see... indicates that SYRIZA maintains a lead of more than 10 percentage points over New Democracy. Only one
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You can call it reform if you like
Agora. More than 75,000 employees applied and a total of 35,239 were accepted. New Democracy chose... votes more than PASOK and gaining a comfortable parliamentary majority. New Democracy had plenty... Constitution, he chose Pavlopoulos to head the panel. So, let’s get this straight: The government is checking
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Greece: Where did it all go wrong?
Agorawith no penchant for reforms or anything other than picking a fight with SYRIZA. The removal... in the battle with SYRIZA drove away a substantial part of the electorate that had helped Samaras get..., the International Monetary Fund would retain a role rather than bringing a successful end to its cooperation
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Central gov't cash surplus reaches 1.42 bln in 2014 after 1.19 bln deficit in Dec
EconomyMacroeconomynet balance for 2014 showed the deficit significantly narrowing by more than two thirds to 4.21... showed revenues fell by more than 17 percent in December. The cash figure for 2014 includes revenues... BoG primary cash surplus of 1.42 billion euros to the MoF’s methodology, we get an ‘adjusted
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What next Greece?
Agorarisks are undoubtedly contained far better than they were in 2012, but that does not make them small.... The Troika appear likely to offer the minimum that is needed to get the Greek government to sign... of the ECB pulling the plug on Greek banks increase. In Cyprus, there were less than three weeks
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SYRIZA's only chance
Agora– and very limited time - to get it right if it forms a government next week. If it starts negotiations... this support is offering to be bolder on certain reforms than previous governments. SYRIZA’s focus has... for the future than a reduction in the public debt or a faster rate of growth. In fact, securing the last
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Greece and lenders with conceptual, as well as practical, gaps to bridge
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGreece’s first bailout in 2010 that even Varoufakis struggled to get his ideas across in a BBC Newsnight... and the mandate he received rather than to reach a quick compromise that will ease nerves on all side. His.... There was an outflow of more than 4 billion euros in deposits in December, while the January figure
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After rocky start, some political backing for SYRIZA but ECB holds key
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAfter a troubling first few days in office, the new Greek government appeared to get a better grip... Michel Sapin after the pair held talks in Paris. In a more measured performance than his appearance... of a high deposit outflow in December and January (more than 14 billion euros in total) Greek banks
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