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SYRIZA rebels unveil new group as Kasselakis talks up EP vote prospects
PoliticsGreek Politicsbetween the rebel MPs, who come from two different SYRIZA factions. In her brief comments, Achtsioglou... elections next summer. Former interior minister Alexis Haritsis has been appointed as the new group’s
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Government tests cross-party consensus with postal vote amendment
PoliticsGreek Politicsproposal opened the way for a bolder reform. Government sources backed her argument, noting... postal voting in the upcoming European Parliament elections hangs in the balance after Interior Minister
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Aided by opposition parties, PM faces low risk over bland choice of president
PoliticsGreek PoliticsSakellaropoulou, whose prospects of serving a second five-year term appear to have been ended by her public... Androulakis picked former interior minister Tassos Giannitsis, a PASOK veteran, as its candidate. Again
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GDP grows by 1.3 pct QoQ in Q2, in line with growth estimates of 2+ pct for year
EconomyMacroeconomypct that appeared in the 2023 final budget at the end of 2022. The most recent inflation estimate... in 2023, from 1.2 seen in the previous estimate in February. In its latest World Economic Outlook... percent QoQ. Outlook According to the latest Finance Ministry estimates included in the Stability
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Athens buoyed by EU, US support over maritime spat with Turkey
PoliticsForeign Policyon the Turkey–Libya maritime border deal. A common statement adopted by the EU leaders during... on Thursday decided to appoint a special envoy to Libya. This will be Ambassador Christodoulos Lazaris. His mission will be to maintain contact with all sides in Libya in order to closely monitor developments
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After signing EastMed pipeline pact, Athens aims to tackle Turkey challenge
PoliticsForeign Policymemoranda with the Tripoli-based government in Libya. Officials in Athens stress, however... following Turkey's intervention in Libya, the message to Ankara in the joint statement they issued... in Libya presents a dangerous threat to wider regional stability.” The statement also noted
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A busy year of diplomacy for Athens, but Greek-Turkish ties stagnate
PoliticsForeign Policycountries. But it also accomplished a rapprochement with Libya. Greece’s decision to extend its... was its rapprochement with Libya. That was accomplished with numerous visits by Greek officials, including... for the first time a high-level meeting on Libya on November 12, in Paris. Greece had been excluded twice from
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Newsletter 209 -07/06/2019
on Sunday, Gennimata indicated that her decision was driven by Venizelos’s friendly stance towards New... also adopted a package of permanent fiscal measures which the European institutions estimate will have...) in the first quarter (Q1) of 2019 after a decline of -0.1 percent seen in Q4 2018, provisional estimates from
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Greece prepares to relax lockdown amid concerns about toll on economy
PoliticsGreek Politicsdefended her right, as party leader, to choose KINAL’s parliamentary spokesman. She suggested... for Alpha TV put KINAL on 6.5 pct, with SYRIZA on 20 and New Democracy on 38.6 pct. In her interview... to the damage done in previous years to the middle class by SYRIZA’s policies, which in her view drove voters
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Newsletter 333 - 01/04/2022
on households and firms. In his opening remarks during the cabinet meeting on Tuesday, Prime... budget at the end of November, it resisted calls to revise its estimates on inflation. It did so despite rising energy costs at the time, and based all its estimates on a rather benign average inflation
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