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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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Mitsotakis sworn in as prime minister as attention turns to Cabinet picks
PoliticsGreek Politicshis MERA 25 party received 194,232 votes, or 3.4% of the total. It remains to be seen if Varoufakis... Dendias are tipped to return to former posts at the Labour and Interior Ministries respectively... the Interior Ministry. Chrisochoidis appointed the ministry under former Prime Minister George
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Government courts backlash over squat raids, while opposition is absorbed in internal debate
PoliticsGreek Politicsand Iraq, who have applied for asylum in Greece. A total of 134 asylum-seekers have been transferred... the poor impression created by the raids, the government spokesman released photos from the interior... the Interior Ministry to the Ministry of Citizen Protection, essentially defining it as a public order
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Newsletter 279 -13/11/2020
sight savings, aggregate triples YoY Total deposits, which also include the general government (gg.... Interior Minister Takis Thedorikakos was also left out of the new line-up to be replaced by Agriculture... Interior Minister, to be replaced by Christos Tarantilis. Altogether, 17 changes were made, including
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Greece’s downstream oil industry adapts to shifting demands
EconomyFeaturesfor refined petroleum exports with a total of USD 8 billion or 1.3 percent of the global total and 29.9..., followed by Iran (until sanctions in 2012), Libya, Saudi Arabia and Kazakhstan. As of January this year... with the total including indirect employment coming to over 20,000 people. According to the report
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Possibility of post-election breakup dogs Greek coalition
PoliticsGreek Politicsto survive the vote. While Venizelos has backed away from setting the bar for the centre-left Olive Tree... also mean that the combined total of the support for PASOK and New Democracy would be more or less... earthquake” if the leftists can beat the aggregate total of the two coalition party’s election
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Newsletter 32 - 26/06/2015
the majority of SYRIZA’s radical left, bar a few isolated defectors, decide to remain loyal... assistance (ELA), which reached a total of 77.58 billion euros at the end of May – the highest it has been since December 2012. ELA reached a total of 77.58 billion euros at the end of May. May saw
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Rise in "imported" Covid-19 cases a source of jitters for tourism industry
PoliticsGreek Politics-and-trace system for visitors. Since the beginning of the pandemic, Greece has recorded a total of 3,622 cases and 193 deaths in a population of under 11 million. A total of 355,190 tests have been... to bar visitors from Serbia from entering the country after infections in the country flared up
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Court ruling on pension backpay creates dilemma for PM
PoliticsGreek Politicswill have the right to do so but due to the five-year time bar on their claim it is doubtful whether.... It is estimated that the total bill for backpay could reach almost 4 billion euros, which is slightly.... The total number of pensioners entitled to compensation is roughly 2.5 million, which translates
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General government primary cash surplus expands to 3.9 bln by August, arrears drop further to 6.3 bln
EconomyMacroeconomyof 25.58 billion remain the highest expenditure figure making 51.6 percent of total followed by compensation of 10.37 billion (20.9 percent of total expenditure). Arrears Arrears to the private sector... at the high end making up 45.5 percent of total arrears followed by tax refunds arrears of 1.34 billion
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