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  1. In grip of protests, coalition searches for ways to lift mood
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    , possibly through cuts to auxiliary and high-end main pensions, it is clear that Tsipras has to seek... in the fight against tax evasion. SYRIZA has started discussing since the beginning of the year its ideas... they could study their fiscal impact. It is not clear if this has now happened or if the government has

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  2. Diplomatic tension over refugee crisis grows as Greece protests to Austria
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    Greece revealed on Tuesday that it has delivered a demarche to Vienna to complain about Vienna’s... to a report in TA NEA newspaper, which has been confirmed by Greek diplomatic sources, Ankara has raised... to a report in To Vima daily Vienna has expressed willingness to contribute to finding a solution

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  3. A marriage of inconvenience
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    Agora

    counterpart Ismail Cem. Alexis Tsipras, though, has joined the tail-end of the party, when the euphoria has... what is going on in the wider region. The ongoing war in Syria has made Turkey, in Greek eyes..., a country with which the Tsipras government has been trying to cultivate relations. The worsening

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  4. Newsletter 69 - 08/04/2016

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    year for those with at least 15 working years. At the institutions’ request, the Labour Ministry has... Stathakis said that the 50-billion euro target for the new privatization fund is not realistic and has been..., the issue of Greece’s long-term debt sustainability has to be addressed”. The Bank of Greece said

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  5. Negotiations between Greece and lenders: state of play ahead of Eurogroup meeting
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    EconomyProgramme

    and legislated before the conclusion of the review. The government has clarified the coalition lawmakers.... The government has detailed two-thirds of those measures namely those related to the pension and income tax... in the personal income tax scale the government has included in the draft bill. On the pension

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  6. Tsipras, against all odds
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    Agora

    adroit management of his team over the last few months has only been bettered by Leicester coach Claudio... different nature. It is no longer his MPs he has to worry about, but voters. The about-turns, broken promises and the sense of cynicism that his government has left in its wake has alienated a large part

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  7. Newsletter 75 - 27/05/2016

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    -bills this month and getting very little that tangible in return from Greece’s lenders has caused... surrounding debt relief for Greece. The fact that the discussion has been delayed again until later this year... as a counterbalance to the clutch of unpopular measures his administration has just approved

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  8. Turkish unrest gives Greece the shivers
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    Agora

    it may have on reunification talks in Cyprus). For starters, Greece has inadvertently found itself caught... much more complex and edgy than they have been in recent times. The current government has made... in the energy sector via the Trans-Adriatic pipeline (TAP). Since then, though, Ahmet Davutoğlu has

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  9. Newsletter 84 - 29/07/2016

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    , while positive flow of households stood at 368 million. Nevertheless, the deposit balance has remained... of the second review Now that the debate over Greece’s electoral system has been settled (for the time being), the government has shifted focus to reforming the country’s constitution and trying to ease

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  10. Final list of bidders confirmed ahead of contentious auction for TV permits
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    by shipping magnate Vangelis Marinakis. Kalogritsas has strong links to the government. He is reportedly... newspaper “Proti” in the 1980s. Kalogritsas also has family links with Independent Greeks leader Panos Kammenos, who has publicly stated that the businessman should not be awarded a TV license because

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