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  1. Athens takes plunge on gas exploration, sees hope in Israel-Lebanon deal
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    PoliticsForeign Policy

    and 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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  2. Tsipras and Erdogan keep conversation going despite lack of specific gains
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    scope of his visit to Ankara by underlying that "we should first lay the foundations and then build..., he said he expected more cooperation from Greece on their extradition. Earlier, Turkey's Interior

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  3. Govt’s “zero tolerance” approach to violent protest provokes accusations of authoritarianism
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    a continuum between violent protest and terrorism, and to lay the political responsibility... the police’s actions, with former Interior Minister Alexis Charitsis calling them a “paroxysm

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  4. Tsipras resignation opens up debate about SYRIZA's future
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    political secretariat is now expected to convene over the weekend to lay out the roadmap for leadership... served in the interior ministry before becoming development spokesman in opposition. A third name which

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  5. Turkey closes borders, Greece keeps up pressure
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    PoliticsForeign Policy

    in Libya. Dendias reportedly briefed Raab on the Greek positions and “on the dangers that are being created... issued by the Interior Ministry, the private Dogan news agency reported. The Greek government

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  6. Government turns attention to migration, hoping to avoid another front before EP vote
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    in the government ranks about a spike in arrivals from Libya, particularly on the island of Gavdos, south of Crete... Kroesser, state secretary at the Interior Ministry, in Alexandroupolis, northeastern Greece

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  7. New Democracy tries to win over voters with crackdown on bank charges, migration
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    approach on migration in response to increased arrivals from Libya also comes at a time when New... politician met with EU interior ministers on Tuesday in Copenhagen, where he pressed for faster

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  8. SYRIZA looks to eat further into ND's poll lead in final week of campaign
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    The last week of campaigning ahead of Sunday’s European Parliament and local elections promises to be intense as opinion polls suggest that SYRIZA is closing the gap on New Democracy in the wake of the adoption of the latest package of so-called positiv...

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  9. Come back Cleisthenes, all is forgiven
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    Agora

    . A case in point is former Athens mayor and health minister Nikitas Kaklamanis, who is in the running... some 230 million euros when Kaklamanis left, according to his successor Giorgos Kaminis. The former mayor denies this is the case. Even if we do not assess Kaklamanis by the debts he left behind

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  10. Crisis sees Greeks change eating habits, cut back on eating out
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    Society

    . In particular, 39.7 percent of respondents said they do not eat outside the home, compared to 25.3% in 2011. In addition, the percentage of consumers who eat out once a week fell from 37.6 percent in 2011 to 31 percent in 2016. Similarly, the share of the population that does not eat fast food

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