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  1. PM makes limited, cautious changes to cabinet after election disappointment
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    at ministerial level in five departments: Development, Migration, Interior, Labour and Agricultural... as Interior Minister. Kostas Tsiaras, once a justice minister under Mitsotakis, becomes the new agriculture minister. Niki Kerameus is being moved from the Interior Ministry to the Labour Ministry

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  2. Greek tax revenues at 33.5 pct of GDP in 2013, slightly below OECD average
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    EconomyMacroeconomy

    also notes that VAT revenues to GDP stayed almost stable at 7.1 percent in 2012, slightly above... percent in 2012 remaining above the OECD average of 19.5 percent. Greece’s standard VAT rate of 23...) among eurozone countries. The report acknowledges that the average standard VAT rate of the 21 OECD EU

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  3. A closer look at 2015 revenues reveals size of hit they took
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    EconomyMacroeconomy

    respectively. VAT revenues, in particular, increased by a mere 11 million to 13.63 billion euros in 2015. There is a lot of discussion about the effectiveness of the VAT reshuffling implemented in 2015, when the VAT rate on a large number of goods and services increased from 13 to 23 percent in July coupled

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  4. Energy drives closer cooperation between Greece, Cyprus and Egypt
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    PoliticsForeign Policy

    process on the Syrian crisis, while also expressing “serious concerns over the situation in Libya.” The instability in Libya and the presence of jihadists there was highlight by the Egyptian president

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  5. Ankara tension tops govt agenda, overshadowing social dividend and primary residences
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    the spat with Turkey over its signing of an agreement with Libya regarding the delimitation... is in control of all of Libya, and Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis reportedly told Turkish President

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  6. Newsletter 231 -06/12/2019

    Newsletters

    reaching an agreement with Libya last week to delineate maritime borders in the Mediterranean. Athens has labelled the deal “illegal,” arguing that Libya’s prime minister does not have the legal

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  7. In Washington, Mitsotakis stresses economic recovery, geopolitical importance as IMF departure announced
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    a maritime agreement with Libya that infringes on Greece’s sovereign rights. Some commentators... with Libya is “null and void” because it ignores the exclusive economic zones of Greece’s islands, which he

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  8. Newsletter 234 -10/01/2020

    Newsletters

    with Ankara, which escalated following Turkey’s decision to sign a maritime agreement with Libya... actions in Libya, as well as the two memoranda signed between Ankara and Tripoli. However, Turkey’s

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  9. Athens steps up diplomatic efforts amid ongoing friction with Ankara

    PoliticsForeign Policy

    of the two MoUs signed between Turkey and the UN-backed government in Libya. Greek diplomats... to Ankara's actions in Libya and the Eastern Mediterranean. It has also focussed its efforts

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  10. Greece faces dilemma over how to address relations with Turkey

    PoliticsForeign Policy

    and especially in the "sea zone between Turkey and Libya". This is what İbrahim Kalin, special adviser... intervention in Libya that does not mean it is willing to risk damaging relations with Ankara in East

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