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Newsletter 251 -22/05/2020
what it can of this year’s summer season by unveiling a set of measures this week, while admitting that this year’s season will not resemble other years in terms of visitors or the tourist experience... Bank’s Guarantee Fund which will begin accepting applications in June. The government also announced
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Accused of U-turn over extension of territorial waters at home, ND steps up diplomatic drive abroad
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGreece’s recent EEZ agreements with Italy and Egypt, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced that his government would be tabling a motion to extend the country’s territorial waters to the west from 6... said amounted to an exercise of Greece’s inalienable sovereign right according to article 3
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Newsletter 299 - 04/06/2021
Cavusoglu visit free of drama Positive mood during Turkish FM’s Athens talks; new insolvency..., which was free of the verbal clashes that marked the Greek diplomat’s recent visit to Ankara... in mid-June. This was the most tangible outcome from Cavusoglu’s talks in Athens. Ankara seems to have
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PM hopes to return from Biden talks with spring in his step
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s visit to Washington started on a cordial note, giving... from the first day of Mitsotakis’s visit at the invitation of President Biden, noting that the Greek side was impressed by the host’s warm welcome and detailed knowledge of Greek affairs. Biden set
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Privatisations in Greece: A win-win that's difficult to achieve
Agorain specific – will feature prominently in Greece’s privatization process in the coming months. More...’s stake in these additional regional airports to the newly created Hellenic Company of Assets... an independent assessment of the value of AIA’s current concession and its planned extension
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Tsipras visit to Moscow confirms thaw in relations with Russia after diplomatic spat
PoliticsForeign PolicyPrime Minister Alexis Tsipras’s visit to Moscow last week and the warm remarks made by him... last Friday means that the Greek side’s first and foremost mission was accomplished: Greek-Russian relations appear to be back on track after last summer’s diplomatic crisis. The fact that Athens
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Greece aims to bolster Balkan role to dull impact of EU veto for Skopje, Tirana
PoliticsForeign Policythat could be against Greek interests following France’s decision to veto accession talks for North Macedonia and Albania. France’s rigid position at the European Council as well as the statements... that undermine the government’s intention to once more seek leading role in the Balkans for Greece
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Athens braces for Erdogan bargaining at NATO summit
PoliticsForeign Policyis not blocking Finland and Sweden’s inclusion in NATO but it may raise its bilateral issues... 73-year history. Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the proclamation of a united front... is violating international treaties, namely Lausanne and Paris, by militarising certain islands. Turkey’s
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Athens cultivates Saudi Arabia relations, prepares for MBS visit
PoliticsForeign Policythat either do not have any relations with Turkey or are cautious towards Ankara’s ambitions... of the notorious Khashoggi’s murder in 2018, but Riyadh is still wary of Ankara. For the last four years... a strategic relationship with Saudi Arabia which was underlined by Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed
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Athens wary of North Macedonia PM's intentions, hopes for EU support over name issue
PoliticsForeign PolicyGreece will be monitoring the intentions and rhetoric of North Macedonia’s new Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski whose government received a vote of confidence from the country’s Parliament late.... However he and his government took the oath under the constitutional name and avoided what the country’s
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