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After agreeing measures, coalition sets sights on vote and debt relief deal
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe package of measures the Greek government has agreed with the lenders will be submitted... measures and expansionary counter-measures would take place “as soon as” Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has... come to Parliament in the form of a multi-bill, which has been favoured by Greek governments during
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Full backing for multi-bill from coalition MPs, Tsipras looks to lenders for next step
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat dominant position that Tsipras has within his party after he convinced both party members and MPs... are deeply unpopular and that this has already taken a toll on his government’s ratings. He will want... in the lenders’ court” after his government lived up to its pledges. Athens is still holding out hope
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Possibility remains for trial bond issue before IMF debt analysis
PoliticsGreek Politics, and that’s a very different story from the past.” Regling has used the example of what other programme... between 2 and 4 billion euros. Athens may offer investors holding the five-year bond issue in 2014... director Christine Lagarde has said the Fund’s board will decide by July 27 on whether the organisation
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Skopje first stop for Kotzias in effort to settle Balkan issues
PoliticsForeign Policygovernment has set as a target to have some kind of progress in the NATO process before... a stable government in the country. Additionally, it has not gone unnoticed in Athens that the new... on the table one of the tricky matters for Greece, which is the Cham issue. Kotzias has repeatedly declared
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Athens hopes for next bailout tranche as first phase of review talks conclude
EconomyProgrammethat it has done enough to secure the next bailout tranche, bringing the third review to an official...-free threshold in 2019 rather than 2020. Instead, the focus has been on identifying which of the 88... has made the task extremely difficult. Athens had been due to deliver on this prior action by the end
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Which way to the exit?
Agorainto the domestic political bear pit. Alexis Tsipras has every reason to be concerned about ensuring his... the first programme mainly served as a holding operation for the eurozone to firewall Greece..., with the figure in 2020 and 2021 as low as 3 billion euros. It worth noting that Greece has committed
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Tsipras claims he is in no hurry to call elections after bailout exit
PoliticsGreek Politics, it is the strongest public statement he has made so far about holding on for a little while longer, until 2019... suggest that SYRIZA is seeking a closer alliance with Boutaris than it has had in the past, possibly... Boutaris, who has been supported by PASOK and To Potami in the past, also receive the backing of SYRIZA
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More debt talks lined up but chances of IMF departure growing
EconomyProgrammeto the June 21 Eurogroup as the date by which this matter has to be settled. Scholz said he is waiting... decision” would emerge. The Greek government has already started playing down the importance... government who are still holding out hope that if the IMF remains involved only in a technical
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Soldiers' return from Turkey provides Tsipras with timely boost
PoliticsGreek Politicsin Greece as Turkey announced the release of the two Greek soldiers it had been holding since March. In what has become a difficult summer for the prime minister, largely because of the disastrous fire... that has struck Turkey. There have also been suggestions that the soldiers were freed due to the pressure
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Disbursement delayed until April as lenders wait for primary residence law to be settled
EconomyProgrammethe government and the institutions over the new primary residence framework are holding up the green light...-powered units is still pending following the first failed tender. The process has been re-launched... to replace the Katseli law that expired at the end of February. The government has reportedly
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