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Athens prepares final 2019 budget after green light to ditch pension cuts
EconomyProgrammenow, it appears that there is nothing stopping Athens from ditching the measure when the budget... partners. “The IMF no longer has a financial arrangement with Greece so we are not engaged in the details.... “They are really issues for the Greek government and for the Europeans now in the framework that has been
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Newsletter 330 - 04/03/2022
Kiev because, like Ukraine, ut has a larger and more powerful neighbour, Turkey, that poses... that will be caused by the conflict in Ukraine. The Energy and Environment Ministry has already announced... measure under consideration is a cap on profit margins for certain products. Development Minister Adonis
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PM hopes to contain farmers' protests, seeks to close other open fronts
PoliticsGreek Politicsrelief measures announced in the aftermath of Storm Daniel. The government has had to quietly... to a head over the next fortnight. The government has been trying to maintain a conciliatory tone.... The ND leadership is also satisfied that the issue has proven a headache even for the more
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Tsipras hopes for 'spring' with Russia but brighter days not certain
PoliticsForeign Policybetween Moscow and the European Union. However, there are questions about how well Athens has planned its moves to achieve this target and whether it has thoroughly weighed up the consequences of such an opening towards Russia. Tsipras’s visit, which has been moved forward by a month
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Turkey's Varosha move adds new complexity to Greek-Turkish relations
PoliticsForeign Policymeans that the framework of the Cyprus talks has changed completely. The city has been a Turkish military zone since the 1974 invasion and has been widely viewed as a leverage for Ankara in any future... of the UN Security Council. Both the US and the EU seem extremely annoyed that Ankara has gone back
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Surveillance claims continue to bug New Democracy
PoliticsGreek Politicsrelationship with him. Dimitriadis has previously denied any role in the use of Predator in Greece and has taken legal action against journalists who reported on this aspect of the story in the past. The leftists argued that the weekend reports were further evidence that New Democracy has turned Greece
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Surveillance and Qatargate threaten to overshadow budget debate
PoliticsGreek Politicshas featured a series of increasingly specific claims. Another scenario which is making the rounds... an official statement on the subject sometime this week. The weight of revelations has made... claim to be strong on national defence. New Democracy now has another weapon in its arsenal
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Leaders hit campaign trail as ratings remain finely balanced
PoliticsGreek Politicssupport is at 26.2 pct. This is the lowest that Metron has recorded for the conservatives since... at the beginning of March, suggesting that any damage done by the deadly railway collision has now come... to be profiting from the decline in ND’s ratings, has gained a point since the last survey and has risen
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Election campaign moves into gear, opinion poll data still equivocal
PoliticsGreek Politicsto build another 35 kilometres on top of the 5 km that has already been built. New Democracy sees... that migration has dropped down the list of voters’ priorities. According to the survey, 10 pct of voters... in November. The most popular answer was the cost-of-living crisis, although this was down eight points
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Kasselakis sets sights on government over cost of living
PoliticsGreek Politicshas insisted that any progress the Greek economy has made over the last few years has come... in April this year, but Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has pledged to increase it to 950 euros... the government has ruled out because it argues that the impact on the budget would be too onerous
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