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March budget primary balance short of target, but taxes continue to overperform
EconomyMacroeconomyThe budget primary balance for the first three months of 2022 was confirmed at 1.65 billion euros, compared to a deficit of 13.4 billion euros during the same period last year, according to the final Finance Ministry (MoF) budget execution data released...
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Excluded from Libya talks, Athens vows to block decisions that ignore sea border concerns
PoliticsForeign Policyunchallenged, the Greek government invited the commander of the Libyan National Army (LNA), Khalifa Haftar to Athens. Haftar was due to meet both Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias and Prime Minister Kyriakos... General Khalifa Haftar may have been enough for the Greek government to be excluded, with the UN
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Athens moves on after Berlin Conference absence, seeks more active role in Libya developments
PoliticsForeign Policyfrom Sunday’s Berlin conference. The arrival of Libyan National Army Commander Khalifa Haftar... in Athens Haftar expressed his opposition to the maritime border accord signed between Ankara... against Turkey's plans in Libya and support Khalifa Haftar. Mitsotakis is due to visit Saudi Arabia
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PM briefs EU leaders on migration stance as Turkey tries to pin blame on Greece
PoliticsForeign Policyfew days following talks held by General Khalifa Haftar in Paris and Berlin this week. According to French press reports, after Haftar's talks with Macron in Paris on Monday there is a possibility.... But, according to government spokesman Steffen Seibert, Merkel told Haftar that the situation in Libya
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Greece set to reopen embassy in Libya as it seeks better ties with Tripoli
PoliticsForeign Policywas openly supporting Field Marshal Khalifa Belqasim Haftar and the government in Benghazi. Haftar even... there have been signs that Khalifa Haftar was not able to win the civil war against the government
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Athens steps up efforts to build links with Libya as EU steps in to assist
PoliticsForeign Policy, Foreign Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis met with General Khalifa Haftar in Benghazi for approximately one.... Constructive talks In Athens, diplomatic sources claim that talks between Gerapetritis and Haftar... of talks on the delimitation of maritime zones. In his meeting with the son of Khalifa Haftar
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Migration opens new front for government after Libya snub
PoliticsGreek Politicswith General Khalifa Haftar, the military leader of the region, fell apart over the EU’s refusal... since the start of the year, and Haftar’s refusal to cooperate left no alternative to Greece... cultivating relations with Haftar as a counter to Turkish dominance in western Libya, the government has
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Newsletter 66 - 11/03/2016
each day. The deteriorating weather at Idomeni, on Greece’s border with the Former Yugoslav Republic... to Idomeni or to leave the camp and move to one of the numerous temporary shelters that the government... nightclub bouncer, opening the gates to let a few people in at the Idomeni crossing sometimes and closing
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Withdrawal of NGOs from refugee centres puts pressure on Greece to fill void
PoliticsForeign Policyat unofficial camps like the ones at the port of Piraeus and at Greece’s northern border in Idomeni... and Idomeni becoming permanent features of the effort to tackle the refugee crisis. This approach, though... to prevent the situation at Piraeus, Idomeni and the island hot spots from getting completely out of hand
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Rising tension in Western Balkans add to diplomatic concerns
PoliticsForeign PolicyDemocrat party and others representing FYROM’s Albanian ethnic minority voted for a new speaker, Talat
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