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Turkey closes borders, Greece keeps up pressure
PoliticsForeign Policymay have been the result of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s failure to achieve a new agreement... as decisions may be taken that affect Greece. Athens may have been excluded from this conference
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ND focussed on keeping coronavirus numbers down in build-up to Greek Easter
PoliticsGreek Politicsand the virus being successfully suppressed so far, some Greeks may be more tempted to ignore.... Another concern is that city dwellers may head for the countryside to celebrate in their ancestral... would like to begin lifting some of the restrictions from May 10. According to reports
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Border furor highlights brittleness of Greek-Turkish relations
PoliticsForeign Policyalmost a month. In fact, Ankara conveyed a note on May 11 requesting “Greece to share the exact... to ensure that the land border is not violated”. On May 13, as Mr Aksoy notes, Greece initiated land... political controversy. The Greek side lodged a demarche with Ankara on Friday, May 22, regarding
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Lockdown reduced spread of Covid-19 by 80 pct, research indicates
Societyis currently 0.31. From early May, Greece began to ease its lockdown measures due to the threat of transmission now being considered low enough. As of May 25, according to Google's Mobilty Report there was a 70... by 55 percent and up by 20 percent for residencies. At the end of May, residential visits were higher
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April drop of 9.9 pct for industrial production largest since 2011 as virus takes toll
EconomyMacroeconomybusiness survey for May released by the European Commission, industry confidence fell by 9.8 points... to -16.6 points. In addition, Markit’s PMI for May increased to 41.1 points from 29.5 points... in Greek manufacturing operating conditions since August 2015. The small recovery noted in May was linked
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Economic sentiment at 87.6 in June, consumer confidence & construction show recovery
EconomyMacroeconomy(EEI) for Greece came to 97.6 points compared to 94.6 points in May. Compared to last year, the EEI has worsened by 12.1 points. Additionally, compared to May 2019, the ESI has decreased by 15.1 points... after registering the second-worse reading in the series in May 2020. Compared to the same month
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PMI drops to 42.3 points in November as second lockdown hits
EconomyMacroeconomydeterioration in overall manufacturing sector performance since May. The rate of contraction was among the fastest since data collection began in May 1999. The decline stemmed from a notable drop in new order... at the fastest rate since May. Goods producers reported a sharp rise in cost burdens during
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Industrial production drops by 3.7 percent in Oct
EconomyMacroeconomywas the fastest since May. After a brief uptick in previous months, the latest data signalled the sharpest deterioration in overall manufacturing sector performance since May. The rate of contraction was among the fastest since data collection began in May 1999. The decline stemmed from a notable drop in new
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Vote on territorial waters puts PM's stance in spotlight
PoliticsGreek Politics” in the demonstrations as “colourful” and admitting that the crowds may have been infiltrated by the far... in ND”. Mitsotakis may be correct about the current voting inclinations of self-identifying centrist..., however, suggests that his play for the centre may have its limits, in as much as it can be used to create
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Newsletter 282 -29/01/2021
and Turkey have been afforded added drama by Greece’s political system and the media. This may have been why... President Recep Tayyip Erdogan may be trying to get in the good books of the incoming Biden... programme in May that year. Although towards the end of last year and the start of 2021
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