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Mitsotakis shrugs off scandals to hit back at foreign policy critics
PoliticsGreek Politicswith Libya, Mitsotakis reiterated his government’s position that the Turkey-Libya maritime agreement... the rival factions in Libya, allowing Libya to press territorial claims with backing from Ankara... a loophole to fast-track the proceedings and to shield Karamanlis from potential felony charges
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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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Greek competitiveness rank remains low as tax, bureaucracy create obstacles
EconomyFeaturescompared to where it lags. Many of the poor scores in the subpillars reflect areas where Greece’s lenders... scores were noted in the subpillars of the effect of taxation on incentives to invest (137 out
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Mitsotakis raises alarm over Hormuz, Turkey and new geography of European security
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGreek concerns about Turkey’s revisionist rhetoric, instability in Libya and migration flows... as a regional stabiliser, and as a European voice that understands the Middle East not as a distant
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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 231 -06/12/2019
reaching an agreement with Libya last week to delineate maritime borders in the Mediterranean. Athens has labelled the deal “illegal,” arguing that Libya’s prime minister does not have the legal... economic situation stabilised and export opportunities opened up. Loan interest drops to 4.32
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Newsletter 470 - 11/07/2025
—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... Venizelos also criticized the use of emergency powers to suspend asylum proceedings. In his address
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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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Athens expands survey area off Crete, signs MoU with Egypt
PoliticsForeign PolicyExclusive Economic Zone. In 2019, before signing its memorandum with Turkey, Libya reacted against...). This was calculated by moving its median line northwards. After the signing of the Turkey-Libya memorandum in 2019, new data was generated and Libya could argue that the entire area south of Crete
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Why tax evasion threatens to become endemic due to how Cyprus was bailed out
Agorato personal income statements; yet this needs to be stepped up and integrated with in situ raids
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