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Greece to press for EU sanctions roadmap on Turkey as domestic pressure builds
PoliticsGreek Politicsapproach pursued by the EU has only encouraged further Turkish provocations, and that it is time... summit which starts on Thursday, which was due to focus on Brexit. The Greek side has limited..., but also turned the heat on the government to escalate pressure on Turkey by crossing what Ankara has
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High Covid-19 death rate leads to lockdown extension but fails to dampen vaccine scepticism
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe Greek government has extended the national lockdown until December 7 as the number of deaths... November, which has accounted for more than half of all deaths in Greece since the pandemic struck... of the country, has not led to a significant drop in the number of cases being reported
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Athens wary as exploratory talks with Turkey approach
PoliticsForeign Policyof the demilitarisation of the Greek islands. Athens has publicly reiterated that the only difference between Greece... with concrete agreements. This has been the case for the last 60 rounds of talks in the past. Whether the re... of a two-state solution. The disentanglement of the Greek-Turkish dispute from the Cyprus problem has
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PDMA highlights improving debt profile, targets 8-12 bln in new issues for 2021
EconomyGreece’s Public Debt Management Agency (PDMA) has issued its debt strategy for 2021, in which... the reliance on short-term T-bills by 800 million. Cost of borrowing has reached historic lows, at 1.15 pct... market has increased by 219 pct, thanks to the actions of the ECB through PEPP. The investor base has
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Govt faces fresh pressure over Covid-19 decisions amid slow start to vaccination scheme
PoliticsGreek Politicsscientists. Mitsotakis response has until now been the government’s line of defence in the face... committee on Covid-19 to be published – a request that has been repeatedly rejected by New Democracy...) and 405 patients receiving intensive treatment. Vaccination Greece has started to publish daily
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Economic sentiment edges up to 91.5 in Dec while services, retail and construction fall
EconomyMacroeconomy. Compared to last year, the EEI has fallen by 11.3 points. Meanwhile, compared to December 2019... last year, consumer confidence has dropped by 38.5 points. Industry confidence rose by 2.1 points month-on-month to stand at -10.3 points. Year-on-year, industry confidence has fallen by 12.3 points
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Vaccination rate starts to rise as further lockdown relaxation examined
PoliticsGreek Politicsto the government, although it should be noted that just 0.02 pct of the population has received two shots of the vaccine so far and that Greece has a sizeable elderly population. The faster approval... to power, New Democracy has made it clear that it wants to be seen as decisive on this issue, often
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Uptick in Covid-19 cases prompts caution as govt prepares to tackle pension backlog
PoliticsGreek Politicsalso appears concerned about the increase, although it has underlined that there was also a rise..., not low-interest loans. It was revealed on Tuesday, that the fifth round of refunding tax advances has... with the inability of his predecessor, Yiannis Vroutsis, to get to grips with the problem. Hatzidakis has decided
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Overseas ballots in spotlight as govt accelerates voter enrolment campaign
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe subject of the overseas vote has emerged once again as a hot topic in Greece, after recent... 150,000. An electronic registration platform for applicants has already been launched... crisis. This group, which includes a high proportion of highly-educated Greeks, has been in Mitsotakis’s
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Initials signs for Greek-Turkish exploratory talks seem unpromising
PoliticsForeign PolicyThe new round of exploratory talks between Greece and Turkey hang in the balance as Ankara has... with political equality.” Turkey’s president has linked the exploratory talks between Greece... Emirates. Ankara said that this has been an attempt of Athens to forge an alliance against Turkey while
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