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PM embarks on persuasion exercise as political veterans pick up on public discontent
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPM Kyriakos Mitsotakis has launched a fresh campaign to showcase government initiatives on the cost of living and quality of public services, against a backdrop of protests from key sectors. Two... Venizelos told state TV channel ERT that he believes the country has “become ungovernable”. Venizelos
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Farmers’ protests escalate as political veterans express concerns about democracy
PoliticsGreek Politicsan airport, full stop,” he told Naftemporiki TV, drawing a red line around actions that threaten.... Heavyweight interventions The farmers’ protests are unfolding against a wider backdrop of unease about
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Mitsotakis makes new bid to break deadlock with farmers as govt ponders relief measures
PoliticsGreek Politicswould reinforce his authority and isolate hardliners. Relief measures In an interview with Skai TV... parties face significant barriers to voter trust. Against the backdrop of farmer unrest
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Greece and the euro: The flight of Icarus
AgoraOver the last three years, you won’t have read a newspaper article, seen a TV report or listened to a radio program that referred to Greece and didn’t use the word “crisis.” And for good reason too... was good for Greece and its economy. Also, the euro would theoretically solve one of the perennial
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Mitsotakis lets budget measures sink in as he mulls presidential pick
PoliticsGreek PoliticsERT TV that he would not be announcing his candidate for President until early in the new year.... In an interview broadcast on ERT TV on Tuesday evening, Mitsotakis said he would be announcing his... its course. Speaking on Open TV on Wednesday, leader Nikos Androulakis said the results showed
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Greek tourism's long-term growth prospects are good, report shows
EconomyMacroeconomyThe direct contribution of travel and tourism to Greek GDP reached 13.3 billion euros (7.6 percent) in 2015 and is estimated to fall by 0.5 percent to 13.2 billion in 2016, according to the annual economic report of the World Travel and Tourism Council ...
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No let-up in tension with Turkey as MPs prepare to approve maritime boundary deals
PoliticsGreek Politicsas Turkish provocations in the East Med, including its own maritime agreement with Libya... this, inferior, deal. The opposition party is trying to find a way of criticising ND’s handling
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Turkey maintains maritime pressure as Athens and Ankara court Haftar
PoliticsForeign Policyas Chevron’s decision to submit a proposal for two blocks south of Crete despite the Turkey-Libya... spatial planning (MSF) last April, but since then is trying to leverage its footprint in Libya... the Turkish-Libyan memorandum. Belgacem Haftar, the son of Khalifa Haftar and director of Libya’s
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Athens presses Benghazi in bid to block ratification of Turkish–Libyan maritime pact
PoliticsForeign PolicyGerapetritis and Aguila Saleh, president of Libya’s Benghazi-based House of Representatives. The meeting formed part of Athens’ regular contacts with representatives of Libya’s de facto government... of Exclusive Economic Zones among Greece, Turkey, Libya, Egypt and Cyprus. During the meeting, Gerapetritis
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Deal or no deal? Greece wrestles with the Macedonia issue
Agoraof North Macedonia,” centres on whether the deal is good or bad, and whether a better one could... resistance. Over the last few days, Tsipras’s coalition partner, Independent Greeks (ANEL) Panos Kammenos.... Good or bad deal Unlike other aspects of the discussion about the name issue, this cannot be countered
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