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Mitsotakis defends his record against backdrop of tough migration package
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPlevris, was refused entry to eastern Libya for negotiations. The measures include a three-month... Mitsotakis of resorting to anti-migration policies to deflect from the failure of foreign policy in Libya... migration flows did not meet the high bar set in international law for the suspension of human rights
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Parties take another look at granting vote to Greek expats
SocietyCommission on Human Rights, an independent body which advises the Greek state in accordance with UN human.... The National Commission on Human Rights adopts a higher estimate of 699,118 emigrants between 2008 and 2015... struck. Interior Minister Pavlos Skourletis, who had initially sought to defer the prospect
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Greek, Turkish FMs keep ties on even keel as OSCE cooperation pays off
PoliticsForeign Policyand Human Rights (ODIHR). “The distinguished jurist Maria Telalian, who has served for many years... of Director of the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR),” the Greek Foreign... Turkey submitted at the international organisation the so-called Turkey-Libya Memorandum (2019
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Athens takes plunge on gas exploration, sees hope in Israel-Lebanon deal
PoliticsForeign Policyand 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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Approach to protests, policing poses a new quandary for government
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat has led to controversy and even criticism from human rights groups in the past but at the same... portfolio from the Interior Ministry to the Justice Ministry amid concerns that Panousis and Interior Minister Nikos Voutsis did not see eye to eye. It was notable that Justice Minister Nikos
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Could Greece's immigration reforms have an impact on upcoming elections?
Societyof the UN Convention on Human Rights. These include designating paths to citizenship for older... granted “skyrocketed” from 14,178 to 33,487. Interior Minister Alexis Haritsis responded by describing... inhabitants in 2017. The Interior Ministry publishes more detailed statistics on citizenship
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Search for solutions, not scapegoats in EU's refugee crisis
Agorathat human decency demands of an enlightened Europe. The other point concerns what more Greece can do once refugees and migrants arrive on its islands to prevent them simply moving on en masse to other... that take the risk anyway. So far, the EU’s efforts to get Turkey to tackle human traffickers has
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Refugee crisis charade adds insult to EU's injuries
Agorafacilities for refugees in Greece continue to be unacceptable. Human Rights Watch highlighted recently... pressing of crises, where the human cost is so clear, is an embarrassment for the EU and its members... to pin the blame on. When German Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière suggested in an interview earlier
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Wildfires provide familiar test for government
PoliticsGreek Politicswill be whether human lives are lost. Despite the massive devastation inflicted by the Evia fire two years... to the fact that it had prevented a Mati-style human disaster. Greeks abroad While all the attention... elections. Interior Minister Niki Kerameus said that removing the barriers was “a matter of respect.” Many
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Turkey closes borders, Greece keeps up pressure
PoliticsForeign Policyin Libya. Dendias reportedly briefed Raab on the Greek positions and “on the dangers that are being created... issued by the Interior Ministry, the private Dogan news agency reported. The Greek government
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