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Putting right everything that went wrong in Mati
Agorathat is worthy of the lives of those 80+ people who perished in Mati. Sadly, there seems to be very... whose only purpose is to ensure that nobody has responsibility for anything. What happened in Mati... summer wind in eight years blew from the west, pushing the fire through homes in Mati at a blistering
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Athens gets seat at Libya conference, but talks yield little
PoliticsForeign Policyconcerns persist about the possibility of holding free, fair and credible elections in Libya. Major...An international conference on Libya ended in Paris on Friday with a commitment from the North... a schedule for the withdrawal of foreign forces from Libya. However, analysts and observers
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Diplomatic drive turns to Ukraine and Libya, again
PoliticsForeign Policywent on a working visit to Libya on July 4 and 5, with stops in Tripoli and Benghazi. The visit took.... While Fragogiannis was in Libya, Dendias visited Kiev and Odessa to hold talks with the Ukrainian... hope for the safeguarding of their rights.” Libya On the same day and some kilometers away
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Athens turns attention to Libya, advocates EastMed energy cooperation
PoliticsForeign Policyis putting a lot of emphasis on Libya’s future. In this context, Mitsotakis is planning to visit Paris on November 12 to participate in a conference on Libya, organised by French President Emmanuel Macron. Libya’s future has been one of the crucial issues that both men discussed during their latest meeting
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Dendias's Libya tangle cuts off Athens-Tripoli communication
PoliticsForeign Policyplanning his visit to Libya for some time, but due to several postponements the visit was finally... Council, Mohamed al Menfi, also Libya’s former Ambassador to Greece. When Dendias’s airplane landed... energy exploration deal with Ankara based on the 2019 Turkey-Libya memorandum, which Greece has
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Athens prepares for Blinken visit, hopeful of Libya shifting position
PoliticsForeign Policythat will be formed following elections in Libya. This was set out in a Note Verbale that the Greek Foreign Ministry lodged to the Embassy of Libya in Athens last week, with which it refuted..., according to a report by the Libya Review, which was confirmed by Greek sources, the Tripoli Administrative
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Mitsotakis uses justice reform as election rallying cry in aftermath of Mati verdict
PoliticsGreek PoliticsWith the verdict of the Mati trial still fresh, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis sought to rally... in charge of the botched response to the deadly Mati wildfire of 2018 as an example of a lumbering... attributed the leniency of the Mati verdicts to changes to the penal code introduced by the SYRIZA-ANEL
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Migratory flows and maritime rights create Libya conundrum for Athens
PoliticsForeign PolicyThe issue of Libya is a concern again for the Greek government and its diplomats. However, this time problems with Libya do not only concern the internationally-recognised government in Tripoli... worrying developments for Athens. The first concerns the increased migratory flows from Libya
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Buckling under pressure of Mati death toll, Tsipras searches for corrective actions
PoliticsGreek Politicsof the coalition’s crisis management strategy. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras visited Mati, the area.... The head of junior coalition partner Independent Greeks (ANEL) Panos Kammenos visited Mati with TV cameras... the high death toll to the gale-force winds and large amount of illegal construction in Mati
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Athens waits for EU recovery fund outcome as new Mati fire claims emerge
PoliticsGreek Politicsessentially accepting a new bailout for Greece, with all the toxicity that concept entails. Mati... was focussed on new and grave claims regarding the the Mati wildfire in the summer of 2018, which claimed... and the type of vegetation for the blaze sweeping through the coastal town of Mati so quickly. Former
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