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Newsletter 29 - 05/06/2015
. Keeping the current pension regime intact is one of the key red lines for the SYRIZA-led government... to give their opinions in one form or another. Several ministers and SYRIZA MPs have suggested snap... to elections. One is that it would give him an opportunity to remove the more radical MPs from SYRIZA’s
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Speculation about snap elections in 2020 refuses to die down
PoliticsGreek Politicsfollowing its electoral defeat in July. Also, a fresh victory at the ballot box next year would... of a clear result at the ballot box and no government crisis having acted as a trigger sounds far-fetched
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Return to bond markets to buoy coalition, may leave SYRIZA floundering
PoliticsGreek Politics, albeit after a very tight vote in Parliament. Samaras and Deputy Prime Minister Evangelos Venizelos had... as the debt reduction talks have been put off until after the European elections even though the primary... ahead of the European elections on May 25, when New Democracy will be hoping to hold off SYRIZA's
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Growth, recovery, change and other words lost in the wind
Agoraof this year and take off in 2015," Finance Minister Gikas Hardouvelis told a gathering of Greek businessmen... that if the government could get through the summer, the country would "take off" in September. More than... makers lining up to tell Greeks they will soon be out of the woods is very long. The list of those
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Troika piles pressure on coalition by insisting on key actions to conclude review
PoliticsGreek Politicsallowing taxpayers up to 100 instalments to pay off tax and social security arrears as the troika thinks... Piraeus and Thessaloniki ports given that 2014 sell-off target of 1.5 billion euros has been missed... for the government. The timeframe involved is very tight since Athens would like to conclude the review
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Greek DSA: Don't Say Anything about the debt
Agoraimpact on the country's debt profile. Greece has been off track since the last quarter of 2014... for optimal public asset management. The combined effect of this new reality could very well take... and some doses of political instability before everything was thrown off track. It will probably
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Athens waits for dust to settle after Erdogan's victory in Turkish referendum
PoliticsForeign Policyfor the following reasons: Breaking off EU talks? Erdogan said on Monday that it was unimportant to Turkey if the EU broke off accession talks. “For 54 years, what did they make us do at the EU’s door? Wait... of the death penalty if Parliament passes such a law. Either way it seems very likely that Turkey's
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UN steers clear of Cyprus blame game as focus moves to hydrocarbons
PoliticsForeign Policythe importance of a cooling off period and very much underlined the mental idea that it's up...’s natural wealth. Block 11 is located some 180 kilometers off the island’s southern shores
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Eurogroup paves way for completion of third review, talks on debt relief
EconomyProgramme,” said Tsakalotos. However, the attempt to settle the prior actions got off to a bumpy start on Monday... and the national union decided to call off the action after receiving reassurances from the government regarding... few years. “I am sure that Mario Centeno will do a very good job… he has a lot of work to do
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Newsletter 159 -27/04/2018
at the meeting of eurozone finance ministers in Sofia, ticking off another significant prior action... designed to ward off any thoughts of moving the reduction of the tax-free threshold forward from 2020... expenditure came to 9.45 billion euros, very slightly below target by 2 million euros. Net revenues
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