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Mitsotakis-Erdogan meeting scheduled as Athens and Ankara eye quieter summer
PoliticsForeign Policyand Exclusive Economic Zone rights for the Greek islands, including Crete. Both sides returned..., economy and trade that have been gathering dust for years. The Greek government also wants to push... further pressure to fragile Greek-Turkish relations. Erdogan is due to visit the island on July 20
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Verbal exchanges with Turkey intensify, but voters still largely focussed on inflation
PoliticsGreek Politicsto ratchet up tension between Athens and Ankara were a series of tweets in Greek (and English) from... exercises and Greek claims to including the island of Kastellorizo (which Erdogan referred to by its... to be a response to the Greek Foreign Ministry publishing earlier in the day a series of 16 maps which
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Athens ponders latest diplomatic moves by Turkey
PoliticsForeign PolicyGreek and Cypriot officials spent much of the summer discussing how they would react in case Turkey... kilometers off the coast of Gazipaşa, in Antalya province. In fact, addressing the launch ceremony on August 9, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan brushed aside the Greek and Greek Cypriot administrations
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PM sets out winter relief measures, rules out change to electoral law
PoliticsGreek Politicsas it seeks to get Greek voters on board ahead of next year’s elections. The PM also doused recent... material assistance to Greek households as they endure what is expected to be a challenging winter... include a one-off 250-euro “inflation cheque” for 2.3 million vulnerable citizens, 300 million euros
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PM sees stance on defence issues as vote winner for ND
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat there are ideological reasons for this, possibly dating back to the positions held by Greek leftists... that when his party was in power, in 2018, the Greek navy reacted unequivocally to the Turkish research... companies rather than being based on an agreement between the French and Greek states. On this point
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PM targets elections in May as polls show outcome is finely balanced
PoliticsGreek Politicsin office expired is on July 2. However, this is off the table now. Mitsotakis suggested... on the Greek railways and the Greek public sector that stretch back beyond the four years that ND has been... in completing the installation of the signalling and safety system across the Greek railway network
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Leaders gear up for debate as ND maintains opinion poll lead
PoliticsGreek Politics. The leftists believe that in a more intimate and less stage-managed setting, their man would come off looking... to 8.5, KKE is at 6 pct, MeRA25 on 4 pct and Greek Solution on 3 pct. There is still a substantial... 36.5 pct, SYRIZA 29.5 pct, PASOK 10.5 pct, KKE 7 pct, MeRA25 4.5 pct and Greek Solution 3.5 pct
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Clash over institutional interference primes political mood ahead of local elections
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe changes, New Democracy relied on the support of ultra-nationalist Greek Solution. Changes... Greek Solution” in order to cover up the surveillance scandal and compromise media freedom. Left... that Greek Solution’s support for the government was a quid-pro-quo so tax authorities would drop
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Alpha-UniCredit deal marks step change in developments for banking sector
EconomyBankingThe developments in the Greek banking sector moved up a gear on Monday with the announcement... business of the two parties, the sale of the Greek lender’s insurance and the prospect of UniCredit acquiring the 9 pct stake in Alpha held by HFSF. As we had noted at the end of September, the Greek
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Newsletter 399 - 27/10/2023
cycle for the Greek economy that started at the end of 2009, in the wake of the debt crisis..., and completed the programme it signed in the summer of 2018. In the process, it became the first Greek... actions paid off and now banks have dropped their NPE ratio to below 6 pct, when back in 2015 nearly
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