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  1. Mitsotakis heads to Gaza Peace Summit with focus on wider regional developments

    PoliticsForeign Policy

    position in Syria as well as Libya. This is causing Athens to deploy all kinds of diplomatic tools... leaders met in New York, and agreed that this issue should be only discussed within a technocratic

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  2. Athens hopes strengthening of US ties brings geopolitical benefits
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    PoliticsForeign Policy

    is currently talking with both sides in Libya; very recently he held talks in Turkey and has also met

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  3. When the refugee crisis met the bailout review

    Agora

    After weeks of dancing around the issue, it seems that Greece and its lenders have started, even tangentially, to link the refugee crisis and the pending bailout review. So far, publicly the Greek government has not sought to establish a connection betw...

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  4. Draft budget sees stronger growth, fiscal targets being met
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    EconomyMacroeconomy

    The Finance Ministry (MoF) tabled on Monday in Parliament’s Economic Affairs Committee the 2018 draft budget, which contains its fiscal estimates as well as the underlying macro assumptions. The MoF expects that the improvement in economic confidence du...

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  5. Decisive week for Greek programme begins with proposal from Athens
    Photo by Panayotis Tzamaros/Fosphotos

    EconomyProgramme

    Monetary Fund’s participation in the Greek programme, he met with Christine Lagarde in Davos on Friday... be supported by the use of IMF resources”. Lagarde also met with European Commissioner for Economic... b) the means for achieving fiscal targets and c) medium-term debt measures. “Nothing can be agreed

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  6. Athens eyes implementation of name deal as Skopje homes in on NATO membership
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    PoliticsForeign Policy

    happens next? There are specific steps to be taken from now on, as well as deadlines to be met... Macedonia) for international use and to those for internal usage that may be used externally" and (b... are expected to be reviewed. Athens has three aims that need to be met long before the beginning

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  7. Turkey maintains maritime pressure as Athens and Ankara court Haftar
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    PoliticsForeign Policy

    as 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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  8. Athens presses Benghazi in bid to block ratification of Turkish–Libyan maritime pact

    PoliticsForeign Policy

    Gerapetritis 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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  9. Budget primary surplus at 3.16 bln in December, missing target for full year by 443 mln
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    EconomyMacroeconomy

    billion euros and was below target by 611 million. Net revenues came to 50.96 billion euros, under... expenditure came to 44.20 billion, below target by 611 million euros. Interest payments declined YoY

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  10. S&P: Greek covered and securitised bonds rated investment grade for first time since 2011
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    EconomyBanking

    ‘BB+’ to ‘BBB-’, while the rating for Class B and Class C remained stable at ‘B’ and ‘CCC... credit rating of ‘B+’. This latest rating change comes soon after S&P upgraded the credit ratings... of Alpha Bank, Eurobank, NBG and Piraeus Bank was upgraded to ‘B-’ and ‘B’, respectively, from ‘CCC

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