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  1. 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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  2. Athens buoyed by EU, US support over maritime spat with Turkey
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    PoliticsForeign Policy

    on 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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  3. After signing EastMed pipeline pact, Athens aims to tackle Turkey challenge

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    memoranda 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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  4. Quiet summer in Greek-Turkish relations not seen lasting
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    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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  5. A busy year of diplomacy for Athens, but Greek-Turkish ties stagnate
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    PoliticsForeign Policy

    countries. But it also accomplished a rapprochement with Libya. Greece’s decision to extend its... was its rapprochement with Libya. That was accomplished with numerous visits by Greek officials, including... for the first time a high-level meeting on Libya on November 12, in Paris. Greece had been excluded twice from

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  6. Pressure on Greece to stem migrant flow puts strain on EU ties
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    and repatriate them. These two actions, along with a greater effort by Turkey to impede human traffickers... to live up to its commitments in terms of controlling its sea border or holding on to refugees

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  7. Newsletter 61 - 05/02/2016

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    capable of holding up to 300,000 displaced people. If Greece is converted into Europe’s gatekeeper... by underestimating its economic and fiscal implications. However, the human suffering involved for those

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  8. Newsletter 87 - 09/09/2016

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    shared in this most pressing of crises, where the human cost is so clear, is an embarrassment for the EU... way for Europe to cope with its migration burden is to turn Greece into a holding area for thousands

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  9. Athens seeks clarification from UN envoy as Cyprus talks head for dead-end
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    PoliticsForeign Policy

    to holding another Geneva conference. Some analysts believe that Eide’s announcement on Friday... meetings took place on Ledra Street ending with a “human chain” protest on Saturday. Many

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  10. ND tries to stay on top of wildfire as court battle looms over Competition Commission
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    Evia on Wednesday after visiting the fire brigade’s control centre in Athens and holding talks..., Mitsotakis was quick to stress the need to protect human life, aware of the heavy political toll his

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