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Greece and Albania hold private talks to tackle longstanding differences
PoliticsForeign Policyfor the delineation of the Exclusive Economic Zone; an issue which has been pending from 2009. Since January... of war that has existed between the two countries since the Second World War. Athens, meanwhile, does not recognise the issue of the Cham community, which Albania has been raising since the 1990s
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Tsakalotos douses talk of Tsipras facing post-election leadership challenge
PoliticsGreek Politics. “There will be no leadership issue, and if there is, I will be against it,” he said during an interview with News247... justified because since 2012 he only has victories and increases in the party’s percentages. And, when... minister has always denied that he has such aspirations and has repeatedly rebuffed reports
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Newsletter 269 -16/10/2020
on Turkey by crossing what Ankara has described as a “red line”. The government was quick to rebuff... at a time of its choosing. The response underlines the position that the government has carved out.... On the domestic scene, Mitsotakis’s failure to persuade the EU to announce sanctions at the previous summit has
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The virus may be slowing, but fake news is still rampant
AgoraSince the outbreak of Covid-19 in China, one of the direct consequences has been the widespread... of information Based on data from specialized institutions, Kosovo has the highest average.... This assumption has actually been confirmed by empirical studies. According to a survey published
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Health service weakness highlighted as Covid deaths hit record high and research points to ICU disparity
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe Greek health system has to a high case load during the pandemic and the higher mortality among... mortality rate, which has been well above the EU average since the beginning of November, the government... year. Although Tsiodras has been increasingly less prominent since others assumed communication
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Newsletter 397 - 13/10/2023
the weak presence of the opposition at this level of government. “I believe citizens reconfirmed their trust in New Democracy and the choices it made,” said Mitsotakis. ND has a strong chance of securing... the timeline it has set out for providing compensation to farmers affected by the flooding in central
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Gaza continues to expose political fault lines as PM hopes peace deal brings less scrutiny
PoliticsGreek Politicstook place in Parliament on Thursday, involving Health Minister Adonis Georgiadis, who has been... cooperation - has been distinctly reluctant to be critical of Israel’s actions in Gaza. Thursday’s exchange... stressing geopolitical pragmatism, the debate is far from settled. Since 2019, Athens has invested heavily
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Newsletter 251 -22/05/2020
than 9 in 10 respondents were in favour of strict health checks on travellers, a measure... Democracy leading SYRIZA by 19.7 percent, confirming previous findings that the governing party has... surcharges. The report acknowledges that the pandemic has altered the social economic reality
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Tsipras poised for concessions with lenders, sets snap polls aside
PoliticsGreek Politicswhat these measures might be but there has been much speculation in recent days about... with its lenders and conclude the second review, the government has said it is willing to extend..., it seems that the government has in mind an extension of the fiscal brake so it applies after the end
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Athens and lenders yet to agree on how to drop pension cuts without creating fiscal gap
EconomyMacroeconomy. The coalition has also pledged 765 million euros of “positive” measures, mostly in the form of tax reductions... that Greece has the fiscal space to implement all of the measures it wants, to not impose the pension... last week that Brussels has approved Greece’s draft budget and that the pension cuts will be scrapped
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