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Athens pleased about new EU-Egypt deal, seeks closer ties with Cairo
PoliticsForeign Policywith flows to the Italian and Greek (from Libya to Crete) coasts. Europe is offering a "strategic... urgently needs Egypt to control migration flows from its borders with Libya and, secondly, to improve its... not control the border with Libya, from where Sudanese refugees and Egyptian migrants cross
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Athens insists maritime spatial planning plans do not obstruct talks with Turkey
PoliticsForeign Policytreaty with Libya in November 2019 was rejected by Greece as unlawful as the two countries... in which the main prize was Libya, and its vast oil resources. Turkey protests that it is being hemmed... of Greece with which it has not signed an EEZ agreement namely, Libya but also Albania. For the latter
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ND doubles down on stricter migration policy, riling opponents
PoliticsGreek Politicsof migrants reaching the country from Libya. The measures include a three-month suspension... with Libya are troubled and the EU’s attempt to build ties with General Khalifa Haftar, the military leader of eastern Libya, ended in failure this week. It is expected in Athens that another effort
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Greece, Cyprus and Israel bolster trilateral ties as Turkey looms in background
PoliticsForeign Policyinvolving Cyprus. Libya also signalled readiness for dialogue. Aguila Saleh, speaker of Libya’s House... disputes stemming from the Turkey-Libya maritime memorandum signed in 2019, which Athens deems illegal
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Lest we forget
Agora“The people don’t forget, they hang fascists,” goes a chant that Greeks have been hearing for decades. This year, seeing the fascists being put behind bars will suffice for most. The slogan is born of the years of physical and mental pain inflicted by Greece’s far right on the left, dating back
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Polls turn in SYRIZA’s favour but also show that doubts persists
PoliticsGreek Politicsto such a degree that the threat of snap elections will not hang over the government after May. The recent
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Golden Dawn to compete in EP elections but its longer term future is unclear
PoliticsGreek Politicsas charges of forming a criminal organisation hang over Michaloliakos, his MPs and dozens of party members
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PASOK and Potami seek common ground as Konstantopoulou prepares to return
PoliticsGreek Politicsfrom the personal and political hang-ups impeding the process, the fact that Potami and PASOK rely
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Tension rises in Greece but creditors see potential for agreement soon
PoliticsGreek PoliticsProspects for a deal between Greece and its lenders hang in the balance going into the Orthodox Easter weekend after another round of inconclusive talks on Wednesday. Alternate Finance Minister Giorgos Houliarakis, along with the government’s legal advisers, met with representatives
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Government caught between milestones and corruption claims
PoliticsGreek Politicsstrong growth in 2017. It seems more likely at the moment that the prime minister would hang on and see
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