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Tsipras prepares for first visit to Turkey with refugee crisis in focus
PoliticsForeign PolicyFor some time now, Athens and Ankara have been seeking ways to make a visit to Turkey by Greek... him to watch the match between Turkey and Greece and then to have a meeting. The two day visit... official to visit Turkey following the recent general elections, even though the new government has
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Greece prepares for Erdogan visit, limits extent of Sharia law
PoliticsForeign PolicyTurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is expected to visit Athens on December 7-8, according... issues remain to be settled ahead of his likely visit. Sources close to the Greek President, Prokopis... not yet been resolved is whether Erdogan will visit Greece’s Muslim minority in Western Thrace. Prime
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The enemy within
Agorathat lower income groups in Greece saw their tax burden increase by 337.7 percent from 2008 to 2012, compared to a 9 percent rise for higher income groups. It also found that the bottom three income groups saw their earnings from wages sink the most (by 16.4 to 34.6 percent) between 2008 and 2012
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Athens hopeful of progress on sea delimitation differences with Albania after FM visit
PoliticsForeign Policycourse. However, Dendias did not hide his discomfort about the fact that his visit as well... visit by Kyriakos Mitsotakis to the villages where the Greek minority lives in Albania, will be the first by a Greek Prime Minister in 31 years. Mitsotakis is expected to visit Himara while accompanied
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Athens prepares for Erdogan visit, high-level talks with Turkish officials
PoliticsForeign Policyfor the delegation to visit Western Thrace as was the case in previous visits, when Turkish officials met with representatives of the Muslim minority in Greece. The limited time of Erdogan’s visit... with third countries. First, Erdogan’s visit to Berlin and the diplomatic tension he caused with his
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Newsletter 98 - 02/12/2016
reforms were seen as a key obstacle in the discussions with the lenders but the visit of Moscovici, who... and for all,” he said. Even at this difficult juncture, when he may be tempted to dump the challenge
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EU Commissioner's visit to islands highlights divisions over management of migrant centres
PoliticsGreek PoliticsA high-level visit to the islands of the northern Aegean, designed to showcase progress on building.... On Monday this week, EU Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson paid a one-day visit...” – in a blog post prior to her visit she had stressed that the centres “will not be closed
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Macron visit to herald deepening of Greek-French defence and energy ties
PoliticsForeign PolicyFrench President Emmanuel Macron’s visit to Athens this week comes with unusual strategic weight... underway within Europe’s security and economic architecture. The two-day visit, due to begin on 24... of debates on European strategic autonomy. At its core, Macron’s visit signals continuity and expansion
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Poposki visit significant but Greek-FYROM relations yet to find sure footing
PoliticsForeign PolicyA visit by the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) Foreign Minister Nikola Poposki... neighbour are on the path towards settling their name dispute. Poposki’s visit to Athens takes place a few... announced on June 24, during Kotzias’s visit to Skopje. The last round of such talks took place
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Hope of economic, trade benefits drive Tsipras's landmark visit to Iran
PoliticsForeign PolicyPrime Minister Alexis Tsipras has become the first European leader to visit Iran since the lifting... and European Union,” Tsipras said during his visit to Tehran. The Greek prime minister has urged... in Paris and Rome. Although Tsipras was the first of his EU counterparts to visit Tehran since
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