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Greece’s lenders seem in general satisfied with the outcome of the multi-bill voting on Sunday night. The impact of voting to Greeks’ EU partners was immense. For example, one of the fierce critics of debt-ridden Greece, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble immediately declared, he felt …relaxed. German Finance Minister Wolfgang …

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The crucial meeting of prime minister Antonis Samaras with his coalition government partners Evangelos Venizelos (PASOK) and Fotis Kouvelis (Democratic Left) started at 6 p.m. on Wednesday. The three leaders seek a compromise on re-opening of public broadcasting ERT shutdown by Samaras’ order per Legislation Act on June 11th 2013. …

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Another crucial meeting between prime minister Antonis Samaras and his coalition government partners Evangelos Venizelos (PASOK) and Fotis Kouvelis (Democratic Left) is scheduled for 6 p.pm. on Wednesday. Greece’s coalition government is on the verge of breaking apart over Samaras’ order to shut down public broadcaster ERT and his reluctant …

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Sources at the office of Greek President, Karolos Papoulias, dismissed media claims that an appointment with former football coach Otto Rehhagel was due in March. Mega TV reported that the presidency stressed that importance of Greek-German relations but that such meetings rather targeted to create impressions than real positive climate. …

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Officially the meeting between Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras and the Troika was postponed, because the Troika’s technical teams had not concluded their work. Unofficially, the meeting scheduled for Tuesday afternoon was postponed for Wednesday due to disagreement. Greek media report that it is mainly the emergency property tax and the …

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Turning Greek labour forces into “Chinese workers” without rights and an as-minimum-as-possible wage  seems to be the dream not only of the International Monetary Fund, the Troika and Germany but also that of multinational companies. Allegedly in the name of holy competitiveness, multinationals want to trade “peanuts” for “salary” in order to invest …

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Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras had an informal meeting with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Doha, Qatar. During the meeting that lasted 45 minutes, the two leaders talked about issues of mutual interest between the two neighboring countries like the Theological School of Halki in Istanbul and the opening of …

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Leader of left-wing SYRIZA, Alexis Tsipras, will meet with German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble in Berlin on January 14th 2013. The meeting follows a relevant request by Greece’s main opposition party, apparently mediated to the Finance Ministry through German political party Die Linke. Several Greek media reported that before giving an …

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Eurozone finance ministers and the International Monetary Fund will meet today, Monday to seek a solution to Greek bailout tranche of at least 31.5 billion euro. However substantial disagreement between IMF and Berlin has hindered so far the disbursement of the tranche. German Chancellor Angela Merkel and IMF-Head Christine Lagarde …

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Jean Claude Juncker has called an extra ordinary Eurogroup meeting for November 8th 2012 and claimed that final decisions on Greece will be met on November 12. He considers that no decisions on Greece will be met during the Eurogroup on upcoming Wednesday. At the same time, he called to …

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More was not expected, no decision either. German Finance Minister told his Greek counterpart Yiannis Stournaras the usual, good old admonition: Greece must stick to reforms implementations. The two men meet in Berlin.   “German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble told his Greek counterpart Yannis Stournaras at meeting on Tuesday that …

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 French President Francois Hollande met PASOK-leader Evangelos Venizelos in Paris. From man to man. From Socialist to Socialist. The meeting was kept secret in order to avoid diplomatic turbulence as Monsieur Le President can meet only with his counterparts, according to the protocol. The appointment was fixed Monday night and was …

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PASOK leader Evangelos Venizelos tabled Antonis Samaras five conditions for the forming of a coalition government:  1. Coalition government with EU-oriented parties, especially SYRIZA, Democratic Left and ND.  2. PM to be a person of broader acceptance prefrably someone who fits the new order. 3. A minimum programme agreement, i.e. to …

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For one more time,  Greek Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos used a dramatic tone to describe the bad atmosphere towards Greece “Unfortunately there are many that do not want us within the euro zone” Venizelos told President Karolos Papoulias at a meeting on wEdnsday noon and added that  “We must convince them that we can …

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Yes! KTG’s speculations were right. Eurogroup head Jean Claude Juncker said that Wednesday’s  tomorrows Eurogroup meeting will take place via teleconference because Greece still has some homework to do. That is close the fiscal hole of 325 million euro with real expenditure cuts proposals and have the Papademos coalition government …

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Greek private ALPHA television, reported from Brussels that the Eurgroup meeting scheduled for tomorrow Feb 14, 2012, will take place via teleconference. A Eurogroup meeting with physical presence will be due on Monday, Feb 20, 2012. An official relevant statement from the office of Eurogroup head Jean-Claude Juncker is expected soon. …

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That was the longest day and night in Greece, yesterday. PM Lucas Papademos met the three political leaders of the coalition government for 7 hours. Short after the leaders the PM’s office, the Troika cars were entering the Maximos Mansion. Papademos-Troika meeting ended at 6 o’ clock in the morning. At 8 …

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After several delays and postponements Prime Minister Lucas Papademos is meeting George Papandreou (PASOK), Antonis Samaras (Nea Dimokratia) and Giorgos Katatzaferis (LAOS). Samaras arrived at PM’s office short before 5  p.m., Karatzaferis a few minutes later. I assume Papandreou had arrived first. Government partner Karatzaferis had asked time to read the austerity …

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With the ghost of bankruptcy hunting them Papademos coalition government leaders agreed on four key issue – “basic points”- on the Troika’s demand that will create nothing more than a deeper recession and will crack down the backbone of the Greek economy with wages equal those of a third world country. After …

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The Eurogroup meeting planned for Monday, Feb 6, 2o12, where eurozone finance ministers would deal with Greece second bailout package has been postponed. “It may be scheduled later next week” said a spokesman of Eurogroup head, Jean-Claude Juncker on Friday afternoon. However he did not exclude a possible meeting via teleconference, if necessary. …

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