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Greece signs EEZ deal with Egypt, aiming to halt Turkey's designs
PoliticsForeign Policyto Cairo. However, Greek diplomatic sources claim that the deal with Egypt nullified the one between Ankara... to the unofficial map leaked by Greek diplomatic sources one could say that this is an agreement of multiple...) and the one with Albania (2009) that was never applied. The significance of the agreement is that it secures
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Insolvency bill debate brings implementation challenges to the fore
PoliticsGreek Politics“second chance” directive, is one of the requirements of Greece’s creditors as part of the post..., servicers and the Greek state, around one third of which relates to individuals and the remainder..., the borrower would be relieved of any debt obligations, while the period is shortened to one year
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Newsletter 271 -30/10/2020
law Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis was due to announce on Friday a one-month plan... that their parties have significant commonalities. Since last year’s elections, one of Tsipras’s greatest... that a large portion of workers fell into one of three categories: Either they saw their work suspended
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Poor prospects for new version of Greek-Turkish 'earthquake diplomacy'
PoliticsForeign Policycountries have suffered from earthquakes in the past, and in 1999 one such event brought the two countries closer. In August of that year, the Greek government was one of the first to send search and rescue... of that time, George Papandreou and İsmail Cem rekindled bilateral ties. Greece became one
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Govt scurries for effective Covid-19 response as opposition finds more holes to pick
PoliticsGreek Politics. Opposition pounces This is one of the issues which the opposition seized on to argue that the current... to announce any specific measures for churches and turning a blind eye to mass gatherings, such as the one... expressed its concerns about the latest measures, with representatives arguing that one in three
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Govt toughens stance on campus security after university raid
PoliticsGreek PoliticsA photo of the dean of one of Greece’s top universities being humiliated by a group of self-styled anti-establishment protesters has caused outrage in the academic community and resulted in calls... been one of ND’s flagship election pledges, and one of their legislative priorities since coming
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BoG insists on need for bad bank, sees EU funds boosting recovery from 2021
Economyin the following year. The bank presents two alternative scenarios, a milder one that recession does not exceed 9 pct and a more severe one that sees a stronger and longer impact of the pandemic, where... assisted by a large securitisation of one systemic bank and are down by 48.5 billion euros since
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Attention turns to economic activity, support measures as Covid-19 vaccine rollout begins
PoliticsGreek Politics, to receive one of the small first batch of vaccines to arrive in Greece as part of the European Union’s... Ranking, which suggested that Greece is one of the worst countries in which to ride out the pandemic, slipping to 50 out of 53, down 19 places from a month earlier. He noted that Greece’s one-month case
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Greece extends territorial waters in Ionian, hopes for deal with Albania
PoliticsForeign Policywith neighbouring countries is one of the main aims for Athens in 2021, diplomatic sources note. The first move... waters is one of the issues that Turkey is seeking to examine within the framework of the exploratory... side as one of its diplomatic achievements in 2020. In his interview with Parapolitika weekly
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Retail sector re-opens as govt examines further support for businesses
PoliticsGreek Politicsby one more month. According to Kathimerini, the Finance Ministry is devising a support plan for businesses that will be rolled out in three stages: One up to April, the second until the end of the year... in the first months of the new year. One of the reasons that the government decided to allow certain
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