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  1. Migrant boat tragedy forces temporary halt on election campaigning
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    on Wednesday. The sinking of a fishing boat believed to be carrying migrants from Libya to Italy has claimed 79 lives while 104 have been rescued, however estimates of the total number on board range between

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  2. Fires cast growing shadow as new shipwreck probe is announced
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    of migrants travelling from Libya to Italy drowning in the Mediterranean, off the coast of Greece... are estimated to have lost their lives in the shipwreck. Another probe, this time initiated from

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  3. New Democracy tries to win over voters with crackdown on bank charges, migration
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    approach on migration in response to increased arrivals from Libya also comes at a time when New... of measures will be relatively painless for banks, costing an estimated 20-30 million euros, while

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  4. Greek Q4 GDP down 2.6 pct, shrinks 3.7 pct in 2013 - better than troika estimates

    EconomyMacroeconomy

    : The Greek government and the troika estimate a GDP rebound by 0.6 percent with BoG and Fitch Ratings... decelerating from the 3 percent drop posted in the third quarter, according to flash estimates... similar trend (low double-digit drop) over the past three quarters. ELSTAT’s latest flash estimates

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  5. Early tourism estimates point to increased airline pre-bookings and lower cruise passengers in 2017
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    EconomyMacroeconomy

    more than those in 2016. This estimate is due to be revised by the end of January and could...). The preliminary estimates for airline seat planning point to an increase of 19 percent for Greek regional

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  6. Stability Programme revises growth down to 2.5 pct as investment estimates prove too rosy
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    EconomyMacroeconomy

    by 1.6 pct, another ambitious estimate of investments of 14.4 pct, exports up by 4.9 pct and imports... that the forecast was ambitious as most of their estimates ranged between 2 and 2.5 pct. Most

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  7. Draft budget sets ambitious growth target of 2.8 pct in 2020, plugs fiscal gaps
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    Economy

    by half a percentage, from 2.3 percent in the previous official Greek estimate in the Stability Programme to 2.8 percent. At the same time, the estimate for this year’s growth is revised down to 2... in December. The growth estimate of 2.8 percent for next year is a substantial revision from

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  8. Greece pinpoints flaws in Turkey's Aegean claims
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    PoliticsForeign Policy

    a cut-off effect on the coastal projection of Turkey, towards Libya’s shores. Also, being on the “wrong... have a cut-off effect on the coastal projection of Turkey to the Libya’s shores. Athens believes... naval mission to Libya on March 31. The new operation is named after the Greek word for peace “Irini

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  9. Erdogan's Hagia Sophia move adds to complexity, uncertainty of Greek-Turkish relations
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    PoliticsForeign Policy

    , bilateral cooperation between EU-Turkey on the refugee/migrant issue and developments related to Libya... violation of the arms embargo in Libya, according to a high-ranking EU official. There is a growing... by Turkey and the Turkey-Libya memorandum, Dendias said that “Greece has capable armed forces

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  10. Greece signs EEZ deal with Egypt, aiming to halt Turkey's designs

    PoliticsForeign Policy

    deal signed last November between Ankara and the UN-recognized government in Libya’s Tripoli. Even... within the Turkish continental shelf” and that the agreement also violates Libya’s maritime rights... Libya maritime deal. Kastellorizo and the eastern part of Rhodes were left out, as was widely expected

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