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Newsletter 5 - 28/11/2014
on who he is running against. One of PASOK’s dilemmas is that it lacks any obvious candidate who... is that with PASOK polling under 6 percent in most opinion polls, success would be hard to come by if one... by Stathakis in London is informative and revealing in more ways than one. Leading off with the title “A Growth
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The possible scenarios for avoiding snap elections in Greece
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe threshold by trying to pick off independent and opposition MPs one by one. Instead, New Democracy... One possibility is that the parties strike a deal for early elections next year in return... pressure. It would also remove one of the bonus cards he would hold going into snap elections now
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Newsletter 9 - 30/12/2014
Greece heads to the polls Surveys suggest SYRIZA's lead is narrowing Greece has entered one..., have played up these fears over the past few days. It is certain that this will be one of the main... not mind avoiding, will yield the political solutions that either camp is banking on. One cannot exclude
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Newsletter 11 - 16/01/2015
debates during this electoral campaign in Greece has tended to converge on one issue: Is the country’s... than initially projected. Hence, one key condition of such a grand debt bargain has been achieved... in Washington must certify two key assumptions. For one, that Greece is fully financed for the next
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Appealing to dual audiences compounds mixed messages from SYRIZA
PoliticsGreek Politicsin the last days of the campaign. SYRIZA MP Nadia Valavani suggested on Tuesday that one of the party’s... is closer to SYRIZA’s leadership and is one of the party’s regular representatives in the media... the fact that the leftists are appealing to two different audiences. On one side lie its leftist
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The demand for Greek debt relief: Is the cart being put before the horse?
Agoraon one issue: Is the country’s accumulated public debt sustainable or does it need to be restructured... level in the past year than initially projected. Hence, one key condition of such a grand debt... debates is the fact that the IMF in Washington must certify two key assumptions. For one, that Greece
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Greece's extension proposals to the Eurogroup and what they mean
PoliticsGreek PoliticsMonetary Fund – and allowing monitoring. This had been one of the first things the new government said... of debt relief to one of lesser importance. The demand for some form of debt reduction has been SYRIZA... conclusion and review on the basis of the proposals of, on the one hand, the Greek government
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Newsletter 17 - 27/02/2015
. Varoufakis has suggested that one way of covering the shortfall would be for the European Central Bank... for everyone concerned. There are several reasons to begin bracing for the turbulence ahead. One.... Schaeuble also accused Varoufakis of “straining the solidarity of European partners”. It was just one
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Will the real men of unity please stand up?
AgoraAt first it seemed like a harmless joke. “And now for one member state, all the men need to take... a tie when he visited Rome, remarking that the Greek leader had promised to wear one when Greece’s... into Monday’s Eurogroup, one got the sense that there was an appetite not just to criticise the Greek
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Tsipras to meet Merkel amid search for political backing
PoliticsGreek Politicswith EU leaders rather than a technocratic one with eurozone finance ministers. The coalition... Draghi at the EU Council this week in a bid to reach the solution that Athens desires. One of the key... allows great flexibility on the primary surplus target for this year. One of Finance Minister Yanis
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