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Athens content with Scholz's first visit, looks for US backing on Libya
PoliticsForeign Policyto be heard” government sources insisted. However, Athens was again not invited to the so-called Libya process meeting that took place last week. Libya The same issue dominated talks Mitsotakis held last week.... It should be noted that Turkey and Libya are not bordering countries and, most importantly, Egypt
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Greece's taxing challenges
AgoraAs September came to a close, millions of Greek taxpayers scrambled to meet the deadline to pay... an expansion in tax arrears by 1.3 billion euros. The total amount of outstanding taxes reached... season. A further hike in motor tax for 2017 awaits Greek citizens in December. If that weren’t
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Troika inquiry: talk to the organ grinder, not the monkey
Agorato be questioned. But the decisions that matter most were taken far above the pay grade of Poul Thomsen & co...: they did not plausibly have the future income streams to repay all of their debts. Creditors weren... its banks. The bailouts, even the belated Greek debt restructuring, weren’t about the debtor countries
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After pay rises in armed forces, PM faces calls for broader wage increases
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat members of Greece’s armed forces would see their pay increase by between 13 pct to 20 pct over the next few months, depending on their role and duties. The total fiscal cost of the intervention... sector pay scale mean that civil servants’ wages have increased by 2.1 billion euros, which
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PM hails Chevron bid as vote of confidence amid mixed reactions to TIF package
PoliticsGreek Politicssquare kilometres, almost doubling the total offshore area under exploration to just over 90,000... total dependence on imports, including from Russia. Secondly, the government hopes that the involvement... the 2019 Turkey-Libya memorandum which claims some of the maritime zones south of Crete. The prospect
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Italian support over Libya buoys Athens as it looks to build broad East Med alliance
PoliticsForeign PolicyJurisdictions Memorandum that Turkey signed last November with the UN-backed government in Libya... signed by Libya and Turkey on the delimitation of the continental shelf is unacceptable, infringes... on the issue of Libya. Government spokesman Stelios Petsas confirmed on Tuesday press reports that Greece
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Government commits to uniformed personnel pay rises amid clamour for higher incomes
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has been forced to commit to pay rises for all uniformed..., coast guard and fire service to be awarded more pay following the recent announcement of wage... that more pay increases would be announced in due course but “under the right conditions and at the right
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FM rallies opposition to Turkey-Libya deal as Athens prepares for EastMed signing
PoliticsForeign Policyfrom Ankara’s side, especially following the signing of two memoranda with Libya. In this context... announcement said that talks centred on the situation in Libya and prospects of ending the civil
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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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Budget continues to perform strongly with 3.64 bln surplus up to May
EconomyMacroeconomyand the public investment budget, came to 24 billion euros. Net revenues were 30.2 billion euros. The total... instalment from Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), amounting to 884 million, initially estimated.... Overall, the PIB was virtually in balance. Greece has also received 884 million euros year-to-date from
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