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Mitsotakis sets aside talk of next Greek president to meet Trump at White House
PoliticsGreek Politicsand Erdogan during which the latter launched a forceful repost to the Greek president’s chiding remarks about... for the former conservative interior minister to become president in 2015, even though New Democracy
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Cabinet clears marriage equality bill without drama as Tempe inquiry hears grave accusations
PoliticsGreek Politicsopening remarks at the cabinet meeting, PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis kept it low-key, noting that legislation... in his socially progressive pronouncements. Interior Minister Niki Kerameus’s attempt to broaden
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EPPO raises stakes over judicial independence question as new political entrants build cases
PoliticsGreek Politicssources point to Kövesi’s own public remarks at the Delphi Economic Forum in April 2026, where she spoke positively about her contacts with Greek ministers. She had said she met the Interior Minister
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IMF upgrades Greece’s GDP and unemployment rate estimates
EconomyMacroeconomyto an estimate of a 0.6 percent GDP contraction in the previous WEO. It is worth noting that this is the most... with the European Commission (EC) estimate, while OECD expects Greek GDP to slip 0.2 percent this year... 2.7 percent previously. The government and the EC estimate the Greek economy will recover by 2.7
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Finance Ministry costs new support package, but questions remain over electricity subsidies
Economyfront and regarding electricity subsidies. In his opening remarks, Staikouras presented the first official revision of the growth estimate for this year. GDP is now seen rising by 5.3 pct, from 3.1 pct... roughly 20 pct below the 2010 levels. The Finance Ministry admitted that in the latest estimates the cost
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GDP grows by 0.1 pct in Q4, up by 1.4 pct in 2017
EconomyMacroeconomyof positive growth per quarter since 2014. GDP grew by 1.9 percent year-on-year (YoY) after upwards... the quarter. ELSTAT also released a first estimate of the overall GDP figure for 2017, showing that it grew... the Ministry of Finance’s (MoF) final budget estimate of 1.6 percent. This was driven largely by a 15.7
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Turkey closes borders, Greece keeps up pressure
PoliticsForeign Policyin Libya. Dendias reportedly briefed Raab on the Greek positions and “on the dangers that are being created... issued by the Interior Ministry, the private Dogan news agency reported. The Greek government
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Government turns attention to migration, hoping to avoid another front before EP vote
PoliticsGreek Politicsin the government ranks about a spike in arrivals from Libya, particularly on the island of Gavdos, south of Crete... Kroesser, state secretary at the Interior Ministry, in Alexandroupolis, northeastern Greece
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Corruption claims, foreign policy missteps impede government’s efforts to build momentum
PoliticsGreek Politicsrelations with Libya and the submission of two note verbale by the Tripoli-based government... deems not be in line with international law. In the notes, Libya claims that Greece’s maritime agreement... spokesman Stelios Petsas. The centre-right MP called for Athens to “toughen its stance” regarding Libya
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IMF still sees fiscal gap in 2018 - no action needed, for now
EconomyProgrammedecade, when the Greek growth estimate eases to 1 percent in 2022. This year’s GDP will be boosted... the deflation years behind, with the inflation estimate at 1.2 percent this year and 1.3 percent in 2018... forecast for 2017 which has been revised downward from the 2.1 percent July estimate. On the fiscal
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