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Coalition not ditching referendum idea from policy options but details muddled
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAs much as it tries, the Greek government cannot escape the issue of if it will consider holding... holding a referendum on whatever is agreed by June “would not be a bad idea” as it would ensure... if talks with creditors hit a wall. “The referendum would be about the points which led to a dead
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Newsletter 485 - 21/11/2025
positioning Greece as the gateway for US liquefied natural gas (LNG) into Europe. Yet as the country leans... with broader efforts to displace Russian gas and limit Chinese control over critical infrastructure... of Piraeus, Mitsotakis told the Wall Street Journal in September that his government would honour
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Govt presents menu of energy proposals in Brussels as power subsidy cost balloons
PoliticsGreek Politicsin the price of natural gas. At the start of the week, natural gas generated 43.5 pct of Greece’s... Gas For A Safe Winter” proposal which would oblige member states to cut their gas consumption by 15... plans to substitute Russian natural gas. It is reported that the Greek government has circulated
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Limited results from Tsipras's diplomatic marathon in New York
PoliticsForeign Policyfor debt relief. Speaking to the Wall Street Journal, in fact he linked the restructuring of Greek debt... of the Zohr gas field in Egypt’s EEZ. International analysts expect that the field, which is estimated to contain 30 trillion cubic feet of gas and be the largest in the Mediterranean, could
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Mitsotakis heads to Washington with defence, energy and investment at top of agenda
PoliticsForeign Policy, even though there have been reactions by Greek opposition parties following Wall Street Journal’s...” for the transfer of gas from the Eastern Mediterranean to the Balkans and Southeastern Europe. The floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) in Alexandroupolis, the underwater natural gas storage
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At sidelines of UNGA, Mitsotakis talks up Greece’s prospects as energy, tech hub
PoliticsGreek Politicsand thinking. In a conversation with The Wall Street Journal’s Emma Tucker and a keynote...’s centrepiece. He celebrated formal bids by ExxonMobil and Chevron to explore natural gas south... message to Turkey. Gas transit through Greece has jumped from 6 to 17 billion cubic metres, supplying
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US-China port spat gives Athens taste of diplomatic challenges ahead
PoliticsGreek Politicsby a Wall Street Journal reporter in September, PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis said his government would... vetoed the transportation of Caspian gas to Ukraine via Greece. The objection appears to have been... to supply gas of US origin to Ukraine to meet the needs of the coming winter. According to a report
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FM visits Egypt and Cyprus with eye on EEZ, EastMed pipeline and new UN talks
PoliticsForeign Policy. The Egyptian Natural Gas Holding Company (EGAS) has recently announced a bid round for exploration... gas to be pumped between Israel and Cyprus to Greece, and then on to Italy and other southeastern... Leviathan gas field and instead of going to Cyprus through an offshore pipeline, it would head
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Newsletter 356 - 21/10/2022
in September. Until a final decision is taken at a European level regarding a cap on natural gas prices... of imported natural gas” and resulted in some of the highest electricity prices in Europe. Among... resulted in increasing the country’s dependence on natural gas. He also took issue with the privatisation
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Newsletter 79 - 24/06/2016
the UK was holding its Leave/Remain referendum on the same day. “For now,” I replied. We laughed... populists and nationalists to step in, holding the EU up as a convenient target for this festering anger... bloody turmoil and division, one can read the surname of a Soviet soldier who scratched it into the wall
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