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No let-up in tension with Turkey as MPs prepare to approve maritime boundary deals
PoliticsGreek Politicsas Turkish provocations in the East Med, including its own maritime agreement with Libya... this, inferior, deal. The opposition party is trying to find a way of criticising ND’s handling
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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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If you think it's bleak for Greece now, wait until tomorrow
Agoraproductivity growth since 1970 has been averaging 0.7 percent, by far the lowest in the euro area, which
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Launch of new movement highlights fragmentation of Greek centre-left
PoliticsGreek PoliticsFormer Interior Minister Yiannis Ragoussis is set to launch a new centre-left movement on Wednesday, highlighting the fragmentation in this part of the Greek political spectrum. With PASOK... to liberalise the taxi sector while he was interior, and then transport, minister between 2009 and 2011. He
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Tsipras facing decision over timing of vote on Prespes Agreement
PoliticsGreek Politicsregarding the Macedonia name agreement, which looks set to trigger the end of SYRIZA’s coalition... that the Interior Ministry is asking for an extra 60 million euros from the Finance Ministry to carry out... to discuss election issues. Interior Minister Alexis Haritsis has reportedly stepped up his meetings
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Newsletter 279 -13/11/2020
discussion that the government had set aside the advice of some experts to cancel the religious.... Interior Minister Takis Thedorikakos was also left out of the new line-up to be replaced by Agriculture... Interior Minister, to be replaced by Christos Tarantilis. Altogether, 17 changes were made, including
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Parties gear up for vote on bill permitting private universities
PoliticsGreek Politicsdisagree. The proposal to allow foreign universities to set up branches in Greece, thereby bypassing... before receiving an email from the Interior Ministry regarding the postal vote. The inference... available and does not contain contact information. The Interior Ministry issued a statement denying
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PM trails switch in tax cuts, admits misstep in approach to migration
PoliticsGreek Politicsabout Libya’s maritime deal with Turkey are not respected grabbed the headlines, but Mitsotakis also... this year. However, this plan is now set to be shelved, with the prime minister saying... any decision not to support her candidacy now. As a result Sakellaropoulou is set to receive more
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Fires cast growing shadow as new shipwreck probe is announced
PoliticsGreek PoliticsParliament was set to vote on the government’s economic bill on Wednesday in the shadow... measures that Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis set out on the campaign trail. These include the 150-euro... of migrants travelling from Libya to Italy drowning in the Mediterranean, off the coast of Greece
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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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