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Athens pleased about new EU-Egypt deal, seeks closer ties with Cairo
PoliticsForeign Policyurgently needs Egypt to control migration flows from its borders with Libya and, secondly, to improve its... not control the border with Libya, from where Sudanese refugees and Egyptian migrants cross... with flows to the Italian and Greek (from Libya to Crete) coasts. Europe is offering a "strategic
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Opposition cries foul on government's tax priorities
PoliticsGreek Politicsof the recent extreme weather - to accelerate the erosion in ND’s popularity. Critics of ND’s tax priorities... cut to fuel duty, on the grounds that he considered the move regressive compared to reducing... and KINAL accused the government of hypocrisy for arguing that fuel duty cuts would benefit the wealth
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PM embarks on persuasion exercise as political veterans pick up on public discontent
PoliticsGreek Politicsmedia the government sees it as its duty to “listen to society and work persistently to solve people’s everyday problems”, adding, “this duty is all the weightier, as in an unstable global environment... to democracy posed by the erosion of trust. Former PM Kostas Karamanlis told an audience gathered
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The "King of the North" seeking to heal a fractured kingdom
Agora, public control and civic renewal, can bridge that divide. Politics isn’t working for places like... that has lost control of essential services, allowed regional inequalities to widen, and become... dependent in areas where public control is necessary for resilience. He proposes instead a set
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Newsletter 45 - 02/10/2015
burden in the last quarter of this year appears very heavy, with a large amount of taxes due by the end... performance, which saw its share of the vote increase slightly to 28.1 from 27.8 percent in January... and household equipment, where it fell by 24.1 percent. Furniture, electrical and household equipment saw
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ND tries to swerve fresh graft claims as EP scandals, phonetapping hang over budget debate
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe announcements, painting Mistotakis as a leader out of control and “in such a desperate freefall... are emerging from surveys of the erosion of public confidence in their ability to perform on this front too. Erosion of support A report by the SYRIZA-affiliated Nikos Poulantzas Institute highlights
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Greek business feeling the pinch from capital controls
EconomyThe imposition of capital controls a month ago has taken a heavy toll on Greek companies, from... and fuel sales. However, the latter gradually smoothed out, with the whole retail sector suffering heavy... the imposition of capital controls found total retail sales had dropped 10 percent. This reflected
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IMF examines where programme went wrong, what lessons were learnt
EconomyProgrammea preference for an ambitious, front-loaded adjustment, the report notes that the IMF clearly saw... and the OSI, public debt recorded a relatively modest immediate decrease to 305 billion euros (160 percent
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Greece and lenders with conceptual, as well as practical, gaps to bridge
PoliticsGreek Politics, which saw Athens receive loans largely to pay off debt after meeting tough fiscal targets and executing... overnight. At this stage, Tsipras believes that his duty is to be true to his pre-election pledges... to Greek banks this may lead to capital controls being adopted in Greece, with unpredictable
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FM gauges mood in Middle East, seeks to bolster ties with Egypt
PoliticsForeign Policymemorandum with Libya, which was signed in 2019 and sparked the deepening of the crisis in its... statement on the sidelines of his participation in the Libya Energy and Economy Summit, he pointed out... Unity in Libya last year a memorandum of understanding regarding oil and gas, and noted that he
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