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Newsletter 448 - 24/01/2025
and politics, but in Greece the country’s next President remained a hot topic as the first opinion polls were.... The prime minister stated that he did not expect bilateral relations between the two countries to change... argued, requires concerted action by the EU. Mitsotakis’s position on energy policy has shifted since
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Running the wrong way: Rama's spat with the EU over vaccination underlines growing frustration
Agorain Albanian politics. Rama’s statements about the EU’s ‘second-hand’ treatment of the Western Balkans during..., an airplane filled with equipment arrived in Tirana two days later from Turkey. Although Rama’s criticism has... instances correspond with pre-election periods. At a press conference announcing the country’s
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Greek-Albanian relations take a hit over arrest of ethnic minority politician
PoliticsForeign Policyto the ICJ. However, Beleri’s arrest seems to be a major setback for bilateral relations. Greek... in elections, something Beleri denies. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis threatened to block Albania’s EU path over the arrest. The Greek PM welcomed Beleri’s win in the elections. “I was especially happy
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Mitsotakis accused of flippancy over handling of diplomatic relations with neighbours
PoliticsGreek Politicsby the leaders of the neighbouring countries. The announcement that Albania’s PM Edi Rama... for the 2025 national elections has been described as a deliberate provocation by Greece’s opposition parties. Critics link the move and its timing, less than a month before EP elections, to the Greek PM’s
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IMF comments, blog leave no doubt credible debt relief has to be agreed soon
EconomyProgramme’s perspective on dealing with sovereign debt. The article is written by Sean Hagan, general Counsel and Director of IMF’s Legal Department, Maurice Obstfeld, Economic Counsellor and Director of Research and Poul Thomsen, Director of IMF’s European Department. A few days after Monday’s Eurogroup
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Newsletter 190 -18/01/2018
for majority on name deal Alexis Tsipras survived this week’s confidence vote and looks on course to win... the centrists’ position on the Prespes Agreement. It had been expected that four of To Potami’s six... reconsidering their position on Wednesday as a result of what they felt was Tsipras’s unfair plundering
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ND presents MEP candidates, hoping for campaign boost amid flagging ratings
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat affects Albania’s EU candidacy but its EU peers have tended to see it as a bilateral matter. Mitsotakis..., which has increased in significance due to ND’s recent ratings decline. The build-up to Monday’s unveiling was overshadowed by Iran’s missile and drone attack on Israel, which was condemned by the Greek
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Newsletter 427 - 14/06/2024
PoliticsSurprise EP vote results act as catalyst for political changesSunday’s surprise result... Minister Kyriakos’s almost instant reaction to his New Democracy party’s underperformance... points lower than PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s stated target of 33. The conservative ruling party
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Athens cautious after Skopje suggests concession on name issue
PoliticsForeign Policymember. This is what FYROM’s new Foreign Minister Nikola Dimitrov said in an interview... to discuss changes in FYROM’s constitutional name in order "to unlock Greek opposition to his country’s NATO... Athens vetoed the Balkan republic’s Nato application in 2008.” Speaking to the FT, Dimitrov also said
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Newsletter 293 - 16/04/2021
to normality in the coming weeks was launched over the past few days as the country’s political.... Although it will take some time for the scheme’s impact to be known, the government has already... to suggest that the public’s confidence in New Democracy’s handling of the pandemic continues to wane
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