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  1. Athens takes plunge on gas exploration, sees hope in Israel-Lebanon deal
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    PoliticsForeign Policy

    and the island of Crete. "We want to make an opening with Libya as a whole, so that we can finally... located in the area between Greece and Libya," Mitsotakis said in an interview with ANT-1 TV, last Monday. It appears that Athens has decided to begin surveys in response to the recent Turkish-Libya

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  2. Clashes add to political tension over division, police violence
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    , with one policeman shouting “Let’s go and kill them.” There were also reports of policemen attacking... as police clashed with some protestors. One policeman was dragged off his motorcycle and beaten. Along...” and focussing on the serious injuries suffered by the policeman. We warned against “blind rage” and said

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  3. Episode 8 - Athens: An ancient city grappling with modern problems

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    In this episode, we take to the streets of our home city, Athens, to get an idea of what interventions would improve life in the Greek capital. Our producer Phoebe Fronista speaks to MacroPolis features writer Georgia Nakou about the Great Walk, a pilot...

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  4. Athens mulls next move after Ankara writes to UN over maritime boundaries
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    PoliticsForeign Policy

    on this matter. The first suggests that the Greek side cannot stand by while Turkey makes its moves... in Syria and with Libya. Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias tweeted on Sunday that “Greece, united

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  5. Podcast - Lost at sea: The Pylos shipwreck and its aftermath

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    On the night of June 14, a fishing boat called the Adriana, packed with hundreds of migrants who had paid traffickers to get them from Libya to Italy, sank in the deep waters of the Mediterranean... tragedies of its kind ever witnessed in Greece and Europe. What makes the Pylos shipwreck such a standout

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  6. Athens takes stance on peace in Ukraine, faces stalemate in relations with Turkey
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    PoliticsForeign Policy

    , such as last Wednesday’s signing of a delimitation agreement between Cyprus and Lebanon. The deal makes... to propose a five‑party forum - comprising of Greece, Egypt, Turkey, Cyprus, and Libya - to facilitate

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  7. The diversions of the past

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    form of terrorism, one that makes the actions of politically inspired fanatics we had known... with such a tumultuous modern history, it is too much, and perhaps undesirable, to expect its

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  8. IMF examines how Greece accumulated large pile of unpaid taxes and contributions
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    EconomyProgramme

    tax debtors owe less than 3,000 euros each, while their tax debt makes up just 2 percent... administration practices with modern approaches used in advanced economies.

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  9. What Dijsselbloem didn't say
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    Agora

    , with specific conditions attached. They were not the modern-day equivalent of the Marshall Plan, even... it makes is defined by the terms its lenders set out. Seven years on since the first bailout

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  10. Macedonia and other Greek words

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    of modern Greece. This has exacerbated the feeling among many Greeks that darker motives lurk across... the system. This makes it even more peculiar that the prime minister’s office should issue a statement

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