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Turkey closes borders, Greece keeps up pressure
PoliticsForeign Policyto replace the EU–Turkey 2016 migration deal during a video conference call that he initiated on Tuesday...,” as he put it on Twitter. Dendias held a telephone call with his UK counterpart Dominic Raab just... harassed a Greek one off the island of Kos last week. However, during his video call with Prime
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Govt pushes tourism message, digests EU stimulus proposal
PoliticsGreek Politicsthis summer. He also held on Wednesday a conference call with the leaders of seven other countries... service sectors. Mitsotakis highlighted in his call on Wednesday, the third between the select group... with nine other European leaders to call for a “Corona-bond.” Although the Recovery Fund would
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Pressure intensifies on govt for more radical interventions in energy markets
PoliticsGreek Politics’s demand for stronger measures. Industrial energy users are the latest group to join the call... risk making their products uncompetitive and putting Greek manufacturers out of business. The call... the meeting was a call for the government to impose a windfall tax on big energy companies. Opposition
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Speculation about snap polls after summer revived by PM's US trip
PoliticsGreek Politicswill opt to call elections after the summer rather than wait until the end of his government’s four... to call snap polls lie mainly in protecting New Democracy from extended wear-and-tear from the cost... at the Thessaloniki International Fair in early September as a platform to call elections and a springboard
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Turkey and Western Balkans top Greek agenda at European Council
PoliticsForeign Policy. The 27 European Union member states call again on Ankara to respect international law and stability... of March 25, 2021, the 27 EU leaders call on Turkey to fully respect international law, to de... stages. Mitsotakis held a telephone call with Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday. The Greek PM reiterated
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Explanations sought as PM backs away from prospect of early elections
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe fallout from Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s insistence this week that he does not have plans to call... on Wednesday and in a radio interview on Thursday, it was thought that he was minded to call elections... and call snap elections, his comments this week, including the suggestion that seeing out the four
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Surveillance hearings in Athens and Brussels highlight contrasting approaches to issue
PoliticsGreek Politicsto call PASOK leader Nikos Androulakis, former EYP head Panagiotis Kontoleon and representatives of two... to call the PM’s former general secretary Grigoris Dimitriadis, who acted as the political supervisor... keen to call both Dimitriadis and the former heads of EYP, who had invoked secrecy laws to avoid
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Opposition keeps pressure on Mitsotakis as surveillance issue sends ripples through ND
PoliticsGreek Politicsof the preliminary findings of the committee’s investigation this week was accompanied by a call to national... and nephew, Grigoris Dimitriadis. The call is backed by two fifths of the committee’s membership..., while there are reports that the call for early elections resurfaced once again but was quickly
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Tsipras positions SYRIZA as defender of democratic institutions amid row over police corruption
PoliticsGreek PoliticsSYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras has launched the party’s election campaign with a call for the defence of democratic values against what he describes as an abuse of power by New Democracy. The call... Parliament and call elections immediately, threatening that SYRIZA would abstain from any votes until
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Mitsotakis backs Ukraine as Athens tries to balance position with Trump administration
PoliticsForeign Policythat “nothing can be decided for Ukraine without Ukraine”. Following his telephone call with Ukraine’s president Volodimir Zelensky on Saturday, Kyriakos Mitsotakis said that he would join today’s leaders’ call... Trump’s call Zelensky a dictator. He said that the US president has a special way to express himself
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