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Newsletter 224 -18/10/2019
this year and 2.2 percent in 2020. In the previous WEO, the growth estimate for 2019 was 2.4 percent. Next year’s estimate is unchanged. Despite the downward revision of this year’s growth estimate... faster than what the European Commission and the IMF estimates (2.2 percent). The PBO argues
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EC ups growth to 2.2 pct in 2019, sees growth in 2020 at 2.4 pct
EconomyMacroeconomyof the regular winter forecast cycle, revising upward its expectations for the growth of 2019 to 2.2 percent... revised upward, from 2.3 percent in November to 2.4 percent now. The estimate for 2021 remains unchanged... growth stands at 2.2 percent. Net exports are the main contributor for last year’s performance
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Athens steps up efforts to build links with Libya as EU steps in to assist
PoliticsForeign PolicyIncreased migrant flows from Libya to southern Crete are causing the Greek government much concern.... This is why European Commissioner Magnus Brunner is visiting Libya on Tuesday. He is due to meet officials... hour. Talks focused on the problem of the irregular arrivals from the northeastern part of Libya
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Diplomatic drive turns to Ukraine and Libya, again
PoliticsForeign Policywent on a working visit to Libya on July 4 and 5, with stops in Tripoli and Benghazi. The visit took.... While Fragogiannis was in Libya, Dendias visited Kiev and Odessa to hold talks with the Ukrainian... hope for the safeguarding of their rights.” Libya On the same day and some kilometers away
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Dendias's Libya tangle cuts off Athens-Tripoli communication
PoliticsForeign Policyplanning his visit to Libya for some time, but due to several postponements the visit was finally... Council, Mohamed al Menfi, also Libya’s former Ambassador to Greece. When Dendias’s airplane landed... energy exploration deal with Ankara based on the 2019 Turkey-Libya memorandum, which Greece has
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Human Rights Commissioner calls for improvements to battered healthcare system
SocietyA report by the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe has shown the severe impact... to accessing healthcare in practice and greater investment in ensuring that the human rights of disabled... estimates that there is currently a shortfall of 6,500 additional permanent staff in public hospitals
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Haftar defeats prompt Athens to take fresh look at Libya crisis
PoliticsForeign PolicyDevelopments in Libya, where a UN-backed government of National Accord (GNA) supported militarily... in Libya. The recent military victories for the GNA have led to nearly all of western Libya being... what is going on in Libya, whose future has become unpredictable. The Greek side turned to Marshall
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Latest criticism regarding human rights, civil society rebuffed by govt
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe Greek government’s attitude towards civil society and human rights has come under fire from... media reports and complaints by press freedom and human rights advocates that the Greek authorities.... On Wednesday, the UN’s Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders presented her preliminary findings from
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GDP shows annual growth of 2.2 pct in Q3
EconomyMacroeconomyof services rose by 2.2 percent QoQ and 13 percent YoY. The MoF’s growth estimate for imports in 2018... percent QoQ. As mentioned, the provisional estimates showed that GDP grew by 2.2 YoY after a downward... quarterly growth streak experienced by Greece began in Q2 2005 and ended in Q4 2006. GDP grew by 2.2
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Greece set to reopen embassy in Libya as it seeks better ties with Tripoli
PoliticsForeign PolicyGreece is due to reopen this Tuesday its embassy in Libya's capital Tripoli, which has been closed... and current head of Libya’s presidency council, Mohamed Al-Menfi. The Greek premier will be accompanied by Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias as the pair try to rekindle relations between Greece and Libya. Athens
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