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  1. Newsletter 470 - 11/07/2025

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    —spurred by a diplomatic debacle in Libya. On Tuesday, a high-level EU delegation, including Greece’s newly... on curbing Mediterranean boat crossings. But the meeting with General Khalifa Haftar, eastern Libya’s de

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  2. New Democracy seeks to counter with marine parks and migration policy, rhetoric
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    of migrants. On Saturday, for instance, he posted on X that: “The illegal immigrants who entered from Libya... to take this emergency action after a massive increase in arrivals from Libya on Crete and nearby

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  3. PM hails Chevron bid as vote of confidence amid mixed reactions to TIF package
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    the 2019 Turkey-Libya memorandum which claims some of the maritime zones south of Crete. The prospect... of missteps in relations with Egypt and Libya have led his critics to question the credibility

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  4. 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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  5. Newsletter 495 - 20/02/2026

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    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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  6. 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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  7. Newsletter 101 - 23/12/2016

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

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    ) 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

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    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

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    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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