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Turkey maintains maritime pressure as Athens and Ankara court Haftar
PoliticsForeign Policyas Chevron’s decision to submit a proposal for two blocks south of Crete despite the Turkey-Libya... spatial planning (MSF) last April, but since then is trying to leverage its footprint in Libya... the Turkish-Libyan memorandum. Belgacem Haftar, the son of Khalifa Haftar and director of Libya’s
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Athens presses Benghazi in bid to block ratification of Turkish–Libyan maritime pact
PoliticsForeign PolicyGerapetritis and Aguila Saleh, president of Libya’s Benghazi-based House of Representatives. The meeting formed part of Athens’ regular contacts with representatives of Libya’s de facto government... of Exclusive Economic Zones among Greece, Turkey, Libya, Egypt and Cyprus. During the meeting, Gerapetritis
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Athens buoyed by EU, US support over maritime spat with Turkey
PoliticsForeign Policyon the Turkey–Libya maritime border deal. A common statement adopted by the EU leaders during... on Thursday decided to appoint a special envoy to Libya. This will be Ambassador Christodoulos Lazaris. His mission will be to maintain contact with all sides in Libya in order to closely monitor developments
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After signing EastMed pipeline pact, Athens aims to tackle Turkey challenge
PoliticsForeign Policymemoranda with the Tripoli-based government in Libya. Officials in Athens stress, however... following Turkey's intervention in Libya, the message to Ankara in the joint statement they issued... in Libya presents a dangerous threat to wider regional stability.” The statement also noted
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Quiet summer in Greek-Turkish relations not seen lasting
PoliticsForeign Policy, in the upcoming EU Summit. Libya Libya is another issue that is of major concern to Greek diplomats. Libya’s Prime.... Even though the meeting focused more on Turkey’s economic “return” to Libya for the country’s... from the international community. The political situation in Libya will remain fluid and it is quite
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Newsletter 353 - 30/09/2022
of poverty based on their spending habits, with poor households spending the equivalent of nearly 34 pct..., moving up to 105.1 points. Over the rolling 12-month period, the ESI is now lower than October last year... polling figures optimistically, while it continues to argue that single-party rule is the only way
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Commission points to poor access to finance, slow reform as hampering Greek competitiveness
EconomyIn its 2014 European Competitiveness Report published on Thursday, the European Commission (EC) ranks Greece in the third group along with 10 other countries in terms of industrial competitiveness. This group, which also includes Spain and Portugal from...
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Poor conditions in Greece fail to deter refugees from wanting to continue journey
SocietyJust over half of the refugees who found themselves stuck in Greece last month due to the closure of the northern border would remain in a reception centre until the borders open even though 71.4 percent are not satisfied with their current living condi...
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Tsipras gets ball rolling on lengthy, ambitious bid to change constitution
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAlexis Tsipras unveiled his proposals for the changes to the Greek Constitution on Monday night, indicating that he hopes it will be a process that engages voters and delivers political benefits for his government. The ideas set out by the prime ministe...
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Coalition turns to growth plan for relief from negativity, poor poll numbers
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe government will try to focus its efforts this week on regaining some of the positive momentum evident following the conclusion of the review on June 15. Much of the that momentum was lost within Greece due to the strike by refuse collectors, the con...
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