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  1. Greek-Turkish tensions flare over Turkey’s bid to join SAFE
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    PoliticsForeign Policy

    , Mitsotakis last week proposed a new initiative involving Cyprus, Egypt, Turkey, and Libya during..., Libya, and Egypt, according to Kathimerini. Boulos, who met with Mitsotakis last September, is said

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  2. Newsletter 495 - 20/02/2026

    Newsletters

    to explore for gas south of Crete was “unlawful”, arguing that it violates the 2019 Turkey–Libya maritime memorandum and Libya’s declared maritime claims. Greece considers those claims null and void

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  3. Athens balancing diplomacy and defence amid Middle East turmoil
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    PoliticsForeign Policy

    . Greece is also maintaining active engagement in Libya, with scheduled visits by the Foreign Minister... in Libya, promote stability and address pressing issues such as migration, while reiterating Greece’s

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  4. New Year reshuffle brings more MPs into cabinet, keeps key ministers in post

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    the deputy agriculture minister. Interior Minister Takis Thedorikakos has also been left out of the new... Petsas has been appointed Alternate Interior Minister, to be replaced by Christos Tarantilis... to the right” and “a party-political balancing act”. The elevation to the Interior Ministry of Makis Voridis

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  5. University bill threatens PASOK consensus as probes launched into alleged infractions by politicians
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    investigation in the Interior Ministry, which is the suspected source of the data leak, while on Tuesday.... The Interior Ministry has denied that it provides voters’ contact information, while the chief...’s EP elections, but also because the suspicions of a data leak emerged within days of the Interior

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  6. Newsletter 101 - 23/12/2016

    Newsletters

    the year with some festive cheer in the form of its lenders agreeing that the pension bonus and VAT... the 617-million-euro payment to some 1.6 million pensioners and the decision to maintain the discount on VAT... and credit cards after the imposition of capital controls in July 2015 had a positive impact on VAT

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  7. OECD sees 3.3 bln euros of savings Greece can make by cutting red tape

    EconomyMacroeconomy

    year. Over three-quarters of these costs accrue in three of the priority areas, namely tax (VAT... for tax law (VAT) form the largest proportion (47 percent) of administrative burdens amounting to 1.54 billion. The key recommendations include: Remove inactive VAT taxable persons from the VAT

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  8. Gap of 555 mln emerges in three key taxes in July ahead of a crucial September for revenues

    EconomyMacroeconomy

    ) provided an update on the collection of key taxes, namely personal and corporate income tax and VAT... of the year were fairly insignificant. The collectability rate of VAT also stood at relatively high..., punctual payments of VAT resulted in revenues of 5.57 billion euros, corresponding to 84.5 percent

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  9. A closer look at Greece's revised proposals to lenders

    EconomyProgramme

    from VAT reform of 680 million euros in 2015 and 1.36 billion in 2016. The latter is higher than... VAT rate from 6.5 to 6 percent and a reshuffling of products and services in the other two VAT rates of 13 and 23 percent. The new low VAT rate of 6 percent will cover only medicine, books and theatre

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  10. No let up ahead in terms of fiscal demands for new Greek government

    EconomyProgramme

    milestones for the first programme review. In mid-July, the government legislated a VAT reform aiming to generate annual revenues of 1 percent of GDP. The basic VAT rate was set at 23 percent, a super... percent for basic food, energy, hotels and water. In addition, the 30 percent discount on VAT rates

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