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A misstep away from absurdity
AgoraTsipras bought himself some time and perhaps a little more acquiescence from Kammenos than seemed.... Also, SYRIZA has maintained a much more conciliatory position on the name issue than other Greek...) are given the space to do their job. However, a complete retreat also allows things to get out of control
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Greece and creditors eye compromise to move review along
PoliticsGreek Politicsto be edging towards a compromise on how to get the bailout review moving and to secure... the IMF’s European director Poul Thomsen described as “Mickey Mouse”) to be tougher than those already... cannot avoid and to delay the discussion on debt relief, rather than to secure concessions on Greece
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Outline of fiscal mechanism for automatic cuts emerges after Eurogroup
EconomyProgrammeStatistical Authority (ELSTAT) each April. If the primary surplus is off track by more than 0.25... the fiscal adjustments that have to be made to get the programme back on track. These measures... that have an impact of more than 0.5 percent of GDP. There is also a, vaguely defined at this moment
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Locating Europe's pulse in the refugee crisis
Agorasociety to be much more flexible and responsive than central governments, which face bureaucratic hurdles... Auschwitz. Rather than helping refugees build a new life, Klinowski now finds himself being... is that in the search for its heart, a pulse has been located. The challenge now is to get the rest
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Mangling the truth
Agorato bypass the Bundestag and get the all clear from the finance committee rather than put the matter... that there was a possibility of an opinion being issued on the same day, rather than in a new session on Friday
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Coalition tweaks draft electoral law in hope of clinching supermajority
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe 3 percent threshold remaining in place. If the coalition can get more than 200 votes... if this article receives a simple rather than super majority. Constitutional experts had already indicated
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The cat is out of the bag: Europe's politics is a mess
Agorabe overturned? An appeal to your successor to tread carefully and look further ahead than you did? No, you... and get the country’s stagnant economy growing again. His premiership, though, seems to have been defined... that pursuing a different economic policy is easier said than done. This week, the European Commission
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Turkish unrest gives Greece the shivers
Agoraand antagonism have made Athens nervier than it needs to be, but there have been specific cases of Greeks... much more complex and edgy than they have been in recent times. The current government has made... comment, made a day before he visited Athens, suggests that Washington is keen to see Greece get over
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TV permit auction boosts Greek coffers but questions linger
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGreek authorities announced early on Friday, after an auction lasting more than three days... that the starting price was 3 million euros, the total raised was far higher than most observers expected..., the government suggested it could get 340 million euros in revenues from the TV licence tender
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Despite the drama, Kammenos proves reliable coalition partner for Tsipras
PoliticsGreek Politicscountry as “Macedonia” rather than the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), touching another... is as stable a coalition partner as Tsipras could get. Kammenos has consistently delivered his MPs... to an end and he feels he can salvage his reputation by jumping ship. Rather than genuine threats
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