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Newsletter 406 - 15/12/2023
injured by a flare ended with focus shifting to the budget debate in Parliament ahead of Sunday’s... proprietors also own major media outlets. The debate over next year’s budget began in Parliament on Wednesday, ahead of this Sunday’s vote. Although the government is coming under attack over the cost
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Greek, Turkish FMs keep ties on even keel as OSCE cooperation pays off
PoliticsForeign Policyregarding a bilateral agreement for sea zones. The issue was not part of the agenda for Wednesday’s meeting. The two sides have not reached an agreement over the date of Mitsotakis’s visit to Ankara... Level Cooperation Council and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s visit to Ankara, due
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Athens insists maritime spatial planning plans do not obstruct talks with Turkey
PoliticsForeign PolicyThe Greek government presented last week the country’s maritime spatial planning (MSP) as part... limits of Greece’s continental shelf have been marked on a map”. He added that under international law... or opposite coastal states. Gerapetritis called the MSP a document of vital importance for Greece’s
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Government lines up crackdown on NGOs as next piece in harsher migration policy
PoliticsGreek Politicsreacted with alarm to the government's increasingly tougher pronouncements. Under Plevris’s proposal.... On the flipside, Greece is negotiating bilateral agreements with countries such as Egypt and Bangladesh... them into extensions of the administration’s “far-right politics”. The left-wing party argued
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China-Greece: One belt, one road?
Agoramanagement and cultural exchanges. Beijing’s representatives will test the capacity to broaden bilateral... for China’s infrastructure investments abroad. The two lenders have ample state-supplied foreign currency liquidity from China’s massive reserve trove of approximately 3.7 trillion US dollars. Greece
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Fragility of summit pledge for border status quo already evident
PoliticsGreek Politics’s Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu from last week’s meeting in Brussels, due to the latest terrorist... forward to address the refugee issues. Greece, however, intends to pursue the issue on a bilateral... Davutoglu. According to Greek diplomatic sources, Cavusoglu’s visit will give the two delegations
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Athens treads tightrope as Turkish research vessel sails in Aegean
PoliticsForeign PolicyPrime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis was due to speak to Greece’s political leaders on Tuesday... on the Greek continental shelf, this would prompt a response from the armed forces. Greece’s position... to an escalation. This is proving a difficult balancing act. "Turkey’s new illegal Navtex
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Rising bond yields a concern, but not an immediate fiscal problem
EconomyGreece’s rising bond yields have begun attracting attention domestically and internationally... aggravated inflation. Greece’s CPI has been breaking multi-year records each month since December... levels not seen since the end of 2018. The situation has understandably affected the PDMA’s debt
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NATO summit also gives PM chance to address issues with neighbours
PoliticsForeign PolicyGreek Politicsforeign and bilateral affairs during the sideline meetings. The leaders of three of Greece’s neighbouring countries will be present: Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, North Macedonia’s new Prime...NATO’s 75th anniversary summit in Washington is expected to focus on the war in Ukraine
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Mitsotakis projects readiness and EU-backed strength as Tsipras questions policy
PoliticsGreek Politicschallenge for Athens, touching defence, diplomacy, domestic stability and the country’s political landscape. The government’s response has crystallised into a four‑pillar strategy - repatriation, defensive... of the Cyprus security question and a coordinated military posture in the region. It also underscores France’s
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