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PoliticsForeign Policy
Mitsotakis heads to Gaza Peace Summit with focus on wider regional developments Athens sees the Gaza peace agreement that is due to be signed on Monday in Egypt’s Sharm el-Sheikh as historic and a new opportunity for peace in the Middle East.
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PoliticsGreek Politics
Gaza continues to expose political fault lines as PM hopes peace deal brings less scrutiny Greece’s Foreign Ministry may have welcomed a US-brokered peace deal between Israel and Hamas as “historic” this week, but the tension between the Greek government and opposition parties over the country’s stance on the Gaza issue continues to be intense and visible.
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PoliticsForeign Policy
PM defends stance on Turkey and troubled electricity cable project Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is planning to meet with Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in New York with the aim of maintaining the current stability in relations between the two countries, while reiterating that Ankara needs to abolish its casus belli clause for ties to improve.
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PoliticsGreek Politics
Opposition unable to join forces over recognition of Palestinian state The inability of Greece’s opposition parties to work together, even on issues that are causing the government discomfort, is being highlighted again as PASOK is set to intensify calls for the recognition of a Palestinian state without coordinating its efforts with any of the other progressive parties.
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PoliticsGreek Politics
Sale of defence manufacturer stokes opposition criticism amid bid to bolster regional ties A deal to sell Greece’s state-owned military vehicle manufacturer to an Israeli defence technology group has stirred up controversy among opposition parties alarmed by the Mitsotakis administration’s deepening ties with Israel.
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PoliticsGreek Politics
PM's strategic bet on Israel meets domestic blowback over Gaza There has been growing public and political pushback against the Greek government's position regarding Israel and the war in Gaza over the last few days, putting Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis in an awkward position given that he has been cultivating Greece's relationship with Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and his administration since the former came to power in 2019.
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EconomyMacroeconomy
Conflict in Middle East puts fresh pressure on economy The relative stability and calm that the Greek economy profited from over the last couple of years has started to look like a thing of the past over the past few days as tension in the Middle East flared up, threatening a protracted conflict in the region, which will have a global impact and will affect the growth outlook for Greece.
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PoliticsForeign Policy
Greece aligns with EU on Israel-Iran conflict, keeps close watch on Turkey as Ankara submits maritime plans Greece is following with concern the recent developments in the Middle East amid the ramping up of the conflict between Israel and Iran.
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PoliticsGreek Politics
Opposition amps up criticism over Gaza stance and farming payments scandal The government is facing intensifying criticism from opposition parties over its position on Gaza, as its latest actions on the global scene put it increasingly at odds with the mood in the Greek Parliament.
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PoliticsGreek Politics
Opposition calls on PM to change tack over Gaza as ND faces new corruption probe Opposition parties are putting pressure on the Greek government to shift its position vis-à-vis Israel as the international community begins to harden its stance on the war in Gaza.