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Athens prepares for Blinken visit, hopeful of Libya shifting position
PoliticsForeign Policythat will be formed following elections in Libya. This was set out in a Note Verbale that the Greek Foreign Ministry lodged to the Embassy of Libya in Athens last week, with which it refuted..., according to a report by the Libya Review, which was confirmed by Greek sources, the Tripoli Administrative
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Greece locked in talks with Egypt over monastery, struggles to gain footing in Libya
PoliticsForeign Policywith Libya The Greek Foreign Minister is to travel to North Africa again at the end of the month visiting both Tripoli and Benghazi, according to Kathimerini. Gerapetritis is to meet with both Libya’s...’s active presence in Libya. For the same reasons, they were also opposing the 2019 Turkish-Libyan
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Deteriorating ties with Libya become pressing challenge for Greek diplomacy
PoliticsForeign PolicyThe two note verbale recently submitted to the United Nations by Libya underlined that relations... the 2019 Turkey-Libya maritime agreement, which Greece and the EU have repeatedly declared null and void... to the diplomatic notes from Libya’s Tripoli-based government, the Greek government believes the move
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SYRIZA targets middle class with own plan for post-pandemic economic rebound
PoliticsGreek PoliticsIn an apparent bid to win over Greece’s middle class, which was still reeling from the last... off the ground following the pandemic. Middle class The opposition leader insisted that the exclusion... for small business owners and, consequently, the country’s middle class. It is believed that part
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Mitsotakis targets working class votes, centre-left struggles with leadership race
PoliticsGreek Politicsclass – a section of society where his party is competing for votes with SYRIZA, which has repeatedly... in the working class neighbourhood of Nikaia, near Piraeus, on Sunday. ND spokesman Vassilis Kikilias said... Democracy is elitist or focussed on the middle class. He made a point of insisting that he is trying
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PM targets middle class voters as he eyes return to normality
PoliticsGreek Politicsout of a six-month lockdown, New Democracy’s aim is to reconnect with middle class voters, who formed... said: “We are returning to the middle class everything that SYRIZA took away from them.” His comment... strongly in 2019 on the message that SYRIZA had over-taxed the middle class because of its left-wing
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Mitsotakis looks ahead to tax tweaks for middle class, welcomes back errant MP
PoliticsGreek Politicsof Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s focus in the New Year will be on reconnecting with middle class... is going to be on working towards a new taxation system, which can ease the burden on middle class... relationship with voters, particularly those in the middle class that may have backed ND in the past
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Newsletter 497 - 06/03/2026
, including the new Belharra‑class Kimon, and two pairs of F‑16s were dispatched to Cyprus. Both frigates... a tenth of global refined aluminium production, and the closure of Hormuz has disrupted these flows. Europe relies on the region for around 20% of its aluminium imports, leaving Greek industrial players
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Athens goes along with EU over Libya, waits for Turkey's move at UN
PoliticsForeign Policyaiming to prevent any shipment of arms to Libya’s two factions. The operation will involve the deployment of warships to enforce the United Nations arms embargo on Libya. According to the EU foreign... as in Libya. Greece was not invited, again, to the Berlin process aiming for a solution for the Libyan crisis
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Athens content with Scholz's first visit, looks for US backing on Libya
PoliticsForeign Policyto be heard” government sources insisted. However, Athens was again not invited to the so-called Libya process meeting that took place last week. Libya The same issue dominated talks Mitsotakis held last week.... It should be noted that Turkey and Libya are not bordering countries and, most importantly, Egypt
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