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Trouble from Turkey prompts plans for extra defence spending after years of cuts
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe growing tension between Greece and Turkey has sparked talk among government officials in Athens about boosting defence spending which, in turn, has fuelled positive and critical reaction from commentators. There has been speculation for several weeks that the Greek government is preparing
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Newsletter 267 -02/10/2020
visited the naval base at Souda Bay in Crete. The US has had an interest for some time in upgrading its... would become the home for US expeditionary sea base, the USS Hershel “Woody” Williams. The ship has... that the US-Greek “military-to-military relationship has been enhanced significantly.” He described
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North Macedonia's road to Brussels: Breaking the vicious cycle
Agoraof Justice. Last year, however, the road to Brussels was closed once again. Now Bulgaria has set its mind... the process, which has led to a dead-end. At this point, the conditionality policy has been compromised... is simply not ready for new enlargement. With things as they are in the Union, functioning has become
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It will happen when it happens - The vaccination entanglement in North Macedonia
AgoraThe Government of the Republic of North Macedonia has agreed on 833,000 doses of the AstraZeneca..., arrived in the country at the end of March. While the Government has consistently insisted... government had returned the advance payment because the Macedonian Government has included a phantom
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Post-Covid era dawns on new landscape for bad debt in Greece
EconomyFeaturesthe line, a new set of instruments and institutions has emerged to manage bad debt, a large portion of which has been transferred from the banks to other entities. The new landscape which has emerged presents a sunnier prospect for banks but has not removed bad debt from the picture. The management
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Athens tries to rekindle ties with North Macedonia after period of stasis
PoliticsForeign Policyagreement signed between Skopje and Ankara. The latter has provoked serious suspicions in Athens... that this agreement has been signed within the framework of NATO and with no intention to rile Athens.... On the other hand, however, the Greek government has not yet ratified three protocols
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Newsletter 315 - 05/11/2021
pct. The number of people dying from the virus has hovered around 50 a day this week. Reacting... to be seen to be taking back freedoms from the vaccinated. The official government line has been to put... was announced. Mitsotakis argued that the availability of vaccines has radically downgraded the public
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Newsletter 326 - 28/01/2022
that has ebbed away from the ruling New Democracy party over the last few months. Having breezed... to the unpopular ENFIA property tax that was imposed during the debt crisis but which has become... to the recent bumpy patch that New Democracy has been going through. Recent opinion polls suggest
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ND, SYRIZA put squeeze on KINAL as centre-left party's poll rise continues
PoliticsGreek Politicshas created doubt about when the next elections will be held and what kind of government might... October. During the same period, support for ND has fallen by 4.3 points, while SYRIZA’s backing... and 19.4 pct Alexis Tsipras. All these numbers are clearly of great concern to ND and SYRIZA as KINAL has
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Newsletter 349 - 02/09/2022
opinion polls suggest that the spying affair has had a limited impact on the popularity of Prime... investigating the bugging has 29 members, 15 of whom will be from the ruling centre-right party... to the conventional surveillance of PASOK leader Nikos Androulakis, which the PM has already admitted to, leaving out
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