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  1. Electricity strike nipped in bud, leaving political loose ends

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    threatening the strikers with arrest if they did not return to work. Their union, GENOP-DEI, announced... to end the protest. This swift move to nip GENOP-DEI’s action in the bud seems to have been due

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  2. Privatisation of power transmission firm ADMIE a key challenge among prior actions

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    unions at PPC, particularly the vociferous GENOP group, are strongly opposed to public control of the electricity production and transmission being lost or diluted. GENOP’s allegiance has switched from

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  3. Turkey maintains maritime pressure as Athens and Ankara court Haftar
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    PoliticsForeign Policy

    as Chevron’s decision to submit a proposal for two blocks south of Crete despite the Turkey-Libya... spatial planning (MSF) last April, but since then is trying to leverage its footprint in Libya... the Turkish-Libyan memorandum. Belgacem Haftar, the son of Khalifa Haftar and director of Libya’s

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  4. Athens presses Benghazi in bid to block ratification of Turkish–Libyan maritime pact

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    Gerapetritis and Aguila Saleh, president of Libya’s Benghazi-based House of Representatives. The meeting formed part of Athens’ regular contacts with representatives of Libya’s de facto government... of Exclusive Economic Zones among Greece, Turkey, Libya, Egypt and Cyprus. During the meeting, Gerapetritis

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  5. Comfortable lead allows Mitsotakis to play it safe as Tsipras makes last-ditch attempt
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    Kyriakos Mitsotakis is sticking to his core themes of tax cuts and growth as Greece enters the final straight of a low-key election campaign that New Democracy looks set to win comfortably. The opposition party’s big lead in the opinion polls has even f...

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  6. Government focuses on safe evacuation as pressure from fires mounts
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    The pressure on the government over the handling of wildfires increased materially over the weekend as Greece experienced a record heatwave and thousands of tourists had to be evacuated on Rhodes as a blaze ripped through the island after burning for se...

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  7. Athens buoyed by EU, US support over maritime spat with Turkey
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    on the Turkey–Libya maritime border deal. A common statement adopted by the EU leaders during... on Thursday decided to appoint a special envoy to Libya. This will be Ambassador Christodoulos Lazaris. His mission will be to maintain contact with all sides in Libya in order to closely monitor developments

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  8. After signing EastMed pipeline pact, Athens aims to tackle Turkey challenge

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    memoranda 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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  9. A busy year of diplomacy for Athens, but Greek-Turkish ties stagnate
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    countries. But it also accomplished a rapprochement with Libya. Greece’s decision to extend its... was its rapprochement with Libya. That was accomplished with numerous visits by Greek officials, including... for the first time a high-level meeting on Libya on November 12, in Paris. Greece had been excluded twice from

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  10. Primary surplus targets become part of main political agenda ahead of elections

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    change over time if the next government can overperform on the reform front remains to be seen

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