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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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After signing EastMed pipeline pact, Athens aims to tackle Turkey challenge
PoliticsForeign Policymemoranda with the Tripoli-based government in Libya. Officials in Athens stress, however... following Turkey's intervention in Libya, the message to Ankara in the joint statement they issued... in Libya presents a dangerous threat to wider regional stability.” The statement also noted
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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... it cannot call for the demilitarisation to apply. In response to the ongoing tension with Turkey... was its rapprochement with Libya. That was accomplished with numerous visits by Greek officials, including
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Retail sales recorded 3.7 pct rise in 2023, but volume dropped by 3.3 pct
EconomyMacroeconomyof 12.3 percent in 2022. Volumes in 2023 dropped by 3.3 percent in 2023. Retail sales had been growing... percent. The inflationary effects are reflected in volumes, with fuels up by 3.3 percent, a 5.4 percent
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New Democracy sticks by snap polls call as gov't looks to probe, tender for relief
PoliticsGreek PoliticsMitsotakis on Tuesday to call on Tsipras to resign and snap elections to be held if necessary marked... two-party administration does not survive much longer. New Democracy, though, stands by its call
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KINAL and To Potami snub Tsipras's call for progressives to pull together
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe fluctuations on the left-wing of the Greek political landscape ahead of the general elections later this year are prompting as much a rejection of SYRIZA’s call for cooperation...) and centrist To Potami, to throw their weight behind SYRIZA. Tsipras’s call comes in the wake of his
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PM seeks to leave ICU controversy behind as Tsipras ups stakes with snap election call
PoliticsGreek Politicsof the pandemic, fuelled by the Omicron variant, and that it should resign, prompting snap elections. This call... likely that Tsipras’s decision to call for Mitsotakis to step down was triggered by the recent change
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Tsipras repeats call for elections with one eye on rising KINAL
PoliticsGreek PoliticsTV to call Mitsotakis a disastrous manager and said his party was issuing an urgent call
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OECD sees 3.3 bln euros of savings Greece can make by cutting red tape
EconomyMacroeconomyThe Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) released a report on May 15 identifying 3.3 billion euros worth of burdensome regulations in 13 sectors weighing on businesses each year. Over three-quarters of these costs accrue in three of the priority areas, namely tax (VAT
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Retail turnover falls by 3.3 pct in Feb, down for fourth straight month
EconomyMacroeconomyThe turnover of Greece’s retail trade index dropped for the fourth straight month in February, when it fell by 3.3 percent in February from an upward revised 1.8 percent decrease in January, according to the Hellenic Statistical Agency (ELSTAT). The February headline figure is the ninth negative
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