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Greece, Turkey launch new round of talks as Libya sea deal casts shadow
PoliticsForeign PolicyForeign Minister Nikos Dendias is due in Brussels on Monday to attend the General Affairs Council which will focus, among other things, on the ongoing developments in Libya. According to media... in Libya on November 29, 2019. The inclusion of the memorandum’s sea zone maps in the UN's database
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Tsipras, against all odds
Agoraaccount at the International Monetary Fund to pay the Washington-based organisation and had drawn... on to the hope that Greece will return to the drachma, an idea that Tsipras and SYRIZA toyed with for some
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IMF examines where programme went wrong, what lessons were learnt
EconomyProgrammeFollowing the International Monetary Fund’s executive board meeting on Monday, the Washington-based organisation published its ex-post evaluation report on Tuesday evening. The report details... and the OSI, public debt recorded a relatively modest immediate decrease to 305 billion euros (160 percent
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Athens pleased about new EU-Egypt deal, seeks closer ties with Cairo
PoliticsForeign Policywith flows to the Italian and Greek (from Libya to Crete) coasts. Europe is offering a "strategic... urgently needs Egypt to control migration flows from its borders with Libya and, secondly, to improve its... not control the border with Libya, from where Sudanese refugees and Egyptian migrants cross
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Energy tops agenda as FM heads to Israel
PoliticsForeign Policyas well as the Turkish-Libya memorandum. “We will continue to deconstruct calmly and soberly... are annoyed by all this; forces that are increasing their provocative conduct, engaging in North Korean
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In Washington, Mitsotakis stresses economic recovery, geopolitical importance as IMF departure announced
PoliticsGreek Politicsannouncement that the International Monetary Fund intends to shut down its office in Athens... a maritime agreement with Libya that infringes on Greece’s sovereign rights. Some commentators... with Libya is “null and void” because it ignores the exclusive economic zones of Greece’s islands, which he
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Athens takes plunge on gas exploration, sees hope in Israel-Lebanon deal
PoliticsForeign Policyand the island of Crete. "We want to make an opening with Libya as a whole, so that we can finally... located in the area between Greece and Libya," Mitsotakis said in an interview with ANT-1 TV, last Monday. It appears that Athens has decided to begin surveys in response to the recent Turkish-Libya
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Newsletter 234 -10/01/2020
with Ankara, which escalated following Turkey’s decision to sign a maritime agreement with Libya... actions in Libya, as well as the two memoranda signed between Ankara and Tripoli. However, Turkey’s... with International Monetary Fund managing director Kristalina Georgieva, who he met before his talks
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PASOK resists invitation to discuss watchdog appointments, citing ND's questionable record
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGreece’s ruling New Democracy and opposition PASOK are locked in a bitter dispute over the future of the country’s independent authorities, with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis seeking consensus on new appointments and PASOK leader Nikos Androulakis ...
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Newsletter 305 - 16/07/2021
Vaccines turn political PM announces compulsory jabs for some, prompting first major anti-vax protest Amid concerns about an approaching fourth Covid wave hitting Greece this summer, the government announced the start of compulsory vaccinations this wee...
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