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Cavusoglu visit to Athens brings hiatus in Greek-Turkish dispute
PoliticsForeign PolicyThere was no diplomatic rematch between Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias and his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu when they met again in Athens on Monday. The two diplomats clashed at a joint press conference in Ankara recently, when Dendias made a se...
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Ousting of govt MP brings to fore leadership unease, angst over far right
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAfter a string of incidents involving controversial MP Konstantinos Bogdanos, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has ousted the deputy from New Democracy’s parliamentary group, reducing the government’s majority to a still-comfortable seven seats. Bodga...
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Business transformation brings profit of 243 mln euros for Alpha Bank in H1
EconomyBankingAlpha Bank reported a net profit of 243 million euros in H1 2022, compared to a loss of 2.33 billion euros in the same period of 2021. Last year’s results were impacted by the bank’s business transformation, higher impairments and transactions related t...
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Govt brings energy saving to forefront as cost of support set to skyrocket
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe energy price spike prompted by the indefinite shutdown of Russian gas supplies to northern Europe has sharpened the minds of policy makers in Athens, who are belatedly looking to energy-saving measures to moderate the cost of support measures. Bench...
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Strong start to budget execution in 2024 as Jan brings 2.12 bln primary surplus
EconomyMacroeconomyThe budget primary balance started the new year strongly with a surplus of 2.12 billion euros in January, according to the preliminary budget execution data released by the Finance Ministry (MoF) on Thursday. In January, the primary balance outperformed...
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Gaza continues to expose political fault lines as PM hopes peace deal brings less scrutiny
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGreece’s Foreign Ministry may have welcomed a US-brokered peace deal between Israel and Hamas as “historic” this week, but the tension between the Greek government and opposition parties over the country’s stance on the Gaza issue continues to be intens...
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Athens hopes strengthening of US ties brings geopolitical benefits
PoliticsForeign PolicyAthens is seeking to extend the positive political mood created by last week’s 6th Partnership for Transatlantic Energy Cooperation (P-TEC). In his weekly social media post on Sunday, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis underlined Greece’s central role i...
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One night in Cannes
Agoraby Financial Times journalist Peter Spiegel has highlighted, there were a fair few others digging
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Tsipras needs to sign a deal, but which one?
Agorais in its dark hole, the less faith people place in those who claim that they are digging the country
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Parliament will not probe 2015 bailout negotiations but issue unlikely to disappear
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat if the opposition keeps digging away and Varoufakis keeps offering more insight the government could
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