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Govt counts cost of own energy package as hopes of coordinated EU response fade
PoliticsGreek Politicsan immediate embargo on Russian oil, asking for such a measure to be delayed until autumn or winter..., are in favour of a staged oil embargo. Political pressure The government is sticking to the narrative..., with leader Alexis Tsipras tabling a question in Parliament in which he criticises the government’s
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Government under fire for failing to block Turkey from EU arms programme
PoliticsGreek PoliticsKyriakos Mitsotakis said the agency’s problems had become a “gordian knot” that needed cutting. Mitsotakis... and failing to state its objections clearly. Criticism also came from SYRIZA’s former defence minister
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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 285 - 19/02/2021
investment budget came to 4.24 billion euros. Net revenues came to 3.85 billion euros, below target by 812... and his government of poor leadership and failing to ensure that the state machinery was ready to deal... at the hands of a sailing federation official have been growing and are becoming a cause for political
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Newsletter 175 -21/09/2018
that cutting pensions now would also be damaging for the economic recovery as it would take money away from... that cutting pension spending by 1 percent of GDP from January, a few months before the general... for the self-employed, cutting the VAT rate in the food service sector from 24 to 13 percent before
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Greece agrees with troika, looks to tranche release and redistribution of surplus
PoliticsGreek Politicsapparently settled at 2.9 billion, which is well above the 2014 budget estimate of 812 million and even.... The conservatives are trailing SYRIZA in opinion polls and PASOK is languishing at around the 5-percent
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Turkey's move in Mediterranean puts Mitsotakis under pressure domestically
PoliticsGreek Politicswith 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 authority to sign such agreements... and creation of EEZs. Greece has also threatened to expel Libya’s ambassador in Athens. Mitsotakis has had
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Latest Tempe report kicks off political storm as government claims vindication
PoliticsGreek Politicsopposition parties. On Tuesday, a report by a team at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA... not suit its narrative, and of cherry-picking elements of the NTUA report which back its story
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ND directs fire at PASOK over Tempe as ruling party’s MPs grumble over land decree
PoliticsGreek Politicsof Athens (NTUA) into the causes of the blaze which contributed to the deaths of some of the 57 victims... Pavlos Marinakis argued this week that “PASOK is more exposed than other parties” after the NTUA report
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ND doubles down on stricter migration policy, riling opponents
PoliticsGreek Politicsof migrants reaching the country from Libya. The measures include a three-month suspension... with Libya are troubled and the EU’s attempt to build ties with General Khalifa Haftar, the military leader of eastern Libya, ended in failure this week. It is expected in Athens that another effort
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