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Is Greece on track to decouple from fossil gas?
Agoraeconomies, Greece, along with other European countries, experienced unprecedented natural disasters... and which saw Greece forced to build new liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals in order to reduce its... years. *Nikos Mantzaris is a senior policy analyst and partner at The Green Tank This work
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Athens takes plunge on gas exploration, sees hope in Israel-Lebanon deal
PoliticsForeign Policypotential natural gas reserves in two offshore blocks southwest of the Peloponnese peninsula... the US or France and Egypt. Greece’s intention to explore natural gas deposits southwest... of sea zones with Libya. Secondly, these surveys are against the EU’s goal for a green transition
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New Year reshuffle brings more MPs into cabinet, keeps key ministers in post
PoliticsGreek Politicsof the government’s four-year term, natural wear-and-tear could lead to complications for ND. Instead... the deputy agriculture minister. Interior Minister Takis Thedorikakos has also been left out of the new... Petsas has been appointed Alternate Interior Minister, to be replaced by Christos Tarantilis
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SYRIZA rebels poised to launch new group after split
PoliticsGreek Politicsdirection, which is expected to focus on leftist and green policies, are due to be announced on Monday... green party in Greece. Most of the 11 MPs held government positions when SYRIZA was in power between... with their former party. It emerged on Tuesday that the 11 have decided that former interior minister
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Androulakis presents vision for fairer Greece in response to PM’s tax cuts
PoliticsGreek PoliticsFrom the outset, leaks from the PM’s office and a spokesman’s briefing painted PASOK as “green SYRIZA... unveiled “the green version of the money tree”. Post-TIF landscape Opinion polls suggest... will shrink and two key ministries (Interior and Digital Governance) will merge into a single operations
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Mitsotakis showcases digital successes in drive to attract inward investment
PoliticsGreek Politicsgrowth agenda based on attracting digital and green investments, and it is now able to point... around 50 percent of Greece’s 32 billion euro share of grants and loans directed to digital and green... in his remarks, “country blessed with natural beauty and a government focused on attracting global
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Mitsotakis looks for silver lining in Trump 2.0 as right wing MPs see vindication in President's agenda
PoliticsGreek Politics, unifying capital markets and moderating some of the green transition goals which he said were putting... championing of green causes during his first term in office to expressing second thoughts about the European green deal. In a nod to Trump’s “drill, baby, drill” slogan, the prime minister distanced himself
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Newsletter 448 - 24/01/2025
experiencing a political backlash from high energy prices, from his championing of green causes during his first term in office to expressing second thoughts about the European green deal. In a nod... against natural gas and said he welcomed the fact that two US energy companies were interested
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Covid-19 lockdown, slump suppress electricity demand and edge out lignite
EconomyFeatures, compared to 30 percent generated by natural gas and just 10 percent by lignite. For a total of eight days... natural gas, which is often promoted as a “bridge” to full decarbonisation. A report released by IRENA...’s “green new deal” depends heavily on new investment in the energy sector to replace legacy
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Newsletter 277 -11/12/2020
PM rebuffs Covid-19 criticism Mitsotakis defends govt stance but is forced to extend some measures until Jan After being forced to extend Covid-19 restrictions into January, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis tried to defend this week his, and his gover...
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