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  1. Mitsotakis backs Ukraine as Athens tries to balance position with Trump administration

    PoliticsForeign Policy

    , a small EU member state but with large defense contributions to NATO, seems to be at crossroads as the big EU Member States are currently discussing ways and secure guarantees to offer Kiev in case of either a ceasefire or a failure of the negotiations talks. Member states will be called in any case

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  2. Clarity over fiscal space allows PM to prepare next relief package

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    The government sees the activation of the defence spending clause for European Union member states... clause" enabling EU member states to raise their defence spending—capped at 1.5% of GDP annually—for four... on external suppliers. Sixteen EU member states have requested to invoke the exemption, allowing them

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  3. Athens walks tightrope as Trump rattles transatlantic ties

    PoliticsForeign Policy

    Greece, a member of both the European Union and NATO, is working with its allies to strike... role: a strategic partner of the US, but also a committed EU member defending multilateralism.... The territory falls under an EU member’s jurisdiction, raising the spectre of American military

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  4. EastMed pipeline close to high-level agreement, but still a long way from becoming reality
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    EconomyFeatures

    with the first discoveries in the region, that the boom could help reunify Cyprus, which has been separated... change mitigation remains strong, with the EU parliament recently voting for a legally binding target

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  5. Why did Greece return to bond markets now? Was it the right decision?

    Economy

    is just one paving stone in this process. It signifies an end to one part of the crisis, which saw.... There is a flipside, though. For starters, the first day of trading for the new bond saw the yield climb

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  6. Historic victory for SYRIZA in EU vote unlikely to dislodge Greek coalition
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    opposition party could point to the fact that New Democracy and PASOK (Elia) saw their share of the vote drop... saw its support decline by a combined total of almost 11 percentage points. Nevertheless, the fact

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  7. Newsletter 7 - 12/12/2014

    Newsletters

    2012. September also saw the highest reading for the month-on-month rise in the number of employed... demanded by the troika. Cool heads did not prevail in New Democracy either. Samaras saw his party

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  8. Divided we fall?
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    Agora

    Antonis Samaras became the arch-proponent of the anti-memorandum line, feeding the populism that saw... fed antagonism. Samaras's New Democracy cultivated the "theory of the two extremes," which saw

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  9. Greek Q2 growth of 0.8 pct confounds recession forecasts
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    EconomyMacroeconomy

    is well above the Reuters poll that saw a GDP contraction of 0.8 percent QoQ and is probably... year, official forecasts saw GDP growth of 2.9 percent in 2015, among the highest growth rates

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  10. Greek teachers low paid, but work shorter hours in smaller classes
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    Society

    qualifications earned 60 percent of the OECD average of $42,825. Greek teachers also saw their salaries..., Greek teachers also saw their net salaries shrink as a tax for solidarity was created. This tax

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