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Gas provides Greece, Cyprus and Israel chance to bolster ties
PoliticsForeign PolicyAnkara’s spat with Moscow, contact between Turkey and Israel has intensified. Greece is hoping... cooperation between the three countries but it is clear that Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has much convincing to do if Israel is going to choose to use Greece as a hub for its gas. It has not gone
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Tsipras concerns about EU stance on refugee crisis shared by opposition
PoliticsForeign Policyit has made in meeting the requirements set out by the Commission as part of its Schengen area review... of Macedonia (FYROM) and Bulgaria in Prague on Monday. FYROM has already erected a double fence on its... Mitsotakis has begun his own campaign to ensure that excluding Greece from the Schengen Area
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Unresolved pensions issues complicate the fiscal front
EconomyProgrammehas ruled unconstitutional the pension cuts imposed in twice in 2012 with the overall impact... applications for pension for which the process has been delayed for technical, bureaucratic or other... in 2013, KEAO has collected SSCs of almost 1 billion.
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Negative deposit flow of 1.12 bln in Jan
EconomyMacroeconomysplit between social security funds (2.55 billion) and local government (2.33 billion). The BoG has.... Since July, central bank funding has dropped by 19.1 billion until the end of December primarily..., the ECB has lowered the ELA ceiling for Greek banks by a cumulative amount of 19.6 billion euros
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Greeks’ mutual mistrust eases, survey indicates
SocietyWhile the percentage of Greeks who say they trust most people has increased in recent years, Greeks... survey on social capital has found. In the twelve years since a similar survey was conducted, Public..., chambers, NGOs etc, has remained relatively unchanged over the past 2.5 years. About one in five
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EU meets on refugee crisis, bailout review but Greece's immediate fate seems sealed
PoliticsForeign Policyin the country for weeks or months. The Greek government has been preparing public opinion... through other routes, such as Albania, thereby also reducing the numbers Greece has to deal with on its... be resettled, as well as Turkey accepting migrants returned from Greece. Bailout review There has been
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Greek teenagers' behaviour charted
Societyfriendships and activities has found. Conducted by the Athens-based University Mental Health... one in five (19.2 percent) has one or two close friends. Their friends are often the best.... The prevalence of mobiles and social media, however, has not replaced personal contact, with 68.3
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Declining flow of refugees gives struggling government some hope
PoliticsForeign Policyof 1,968 in February. Also, reports from the Turkish coast indicate that smuggling activity there has... facility at the port. This has put a strain on limited resources and there has yet to be any definitive
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Piraeus Port Authority announces profit increase for 2015
EconomyBankingThe Piraeus Port Authority (PPA) has released its annual financial statement for 2015, showing post... and one of the largest in Europe, has a split ownership between COSCO (51 percent), the Greek Shipping... Piraeus. The Association of Mediterranean Cruise Ports has said that a 3.1 percent increase in cruise
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Retail sales down by 3.8 pct in Jan for eighth straight fall
EconomyMacroeconomyhas posted only one positive reading, of 2.4 percent in May 2015, over the last 15 months. Retail.... Retail turnover has been reduced by almost one third since 2009 largely reflecting a similar drop... since 2009 has been posted in books, stationery and other goods (-16.3 percent), automotive fuel (-20.4
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