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Editorial Ta Nea: Reforms

The government must not allow the pandemic and the Turkish crisis to disorient them and they must speed up reform efforts so as to implement necessary changes.

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Editorial Ta Nea: Opportunity

If the Greek government plays its cards right and remains calm it can win over even those countries in the EU which at the previous summit refused to draft a list of possible sanctions against Turkey

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Editorial To Vima: We must prepared for everything with Turkey!

In light of Turkey’s erratic and dangerous policies and the policy of appeasement on the part of strong powers there is no room for complacency.

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PM extols court’s conviction of Golden Dawn as criminal organisation, calls it ‘victory for democracy’

'I am proud of the unwavering stance of our party that made the political and social marginalisation of Golden Dawn its strategic goal,' said Mitsotakis.

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Editorial To Vima: Can a cloud bring an economic springtime?

PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis SAID the project will bring 1bn euros in long-term financial benefits to Greece. He said the prowill include a training program in digital skills for about 100,000 people.

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Stoltenberg, Mitsotakis push talks based on firm Turkish commitment to de-escalation with Greece

'It is my firm hope that the underlying disputes between two allies can now be addressed purely though negotiations in the spirit of allied solidarity and international law,” Nato's chief said.

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Editorial Ta Nea: Investments

Deals such as the one with Microsoft not only create many new jobs but also open the way for the return of the brain drain generation.

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Editorial Ta Nea: Warning signs

A government that rests on its laurels and political advantage is in danger of becoming its own victim as In politics inertia, missteps, and omissions that fester will not be pardoned

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Editorial To Vima: Messages from a polling snapshot

The government appears to have entirely occupied the political playing field with no opponent. The only danger the ruling party may possibly face is from within.

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Greece, Cyprus push hard at EU summit for tougher stance against Turkey

German Chancellor Angela Merkel opposed harsher language against Turkey, presumably in order to facilitate Germany's role as mediator between Turkey and Greece.

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Editorial To Vima: Who will get off the train?

The problems the government faces are due largely to the personal strategies of ministers stab each other in the back on a daily basis.

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Editorial: The opponent

New Democracy's only opponent is itself and that is no small thing. The only trap that endangers it is that of developing the arrogance of power.

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US-Greece strategic military cooperation stressed by Pompeo at Souda Bay base

Addressing Greek-Turkish affairs Pompeo  kept equal distances and said that the US supports talks between NATO members, "as between Turkey and Greece".

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Editorial Ta Nea: Opportunity

The government must spend EU pandemic recovery funding prudently to resolve political and economic dysfunctions that have lingered for decades and thus restructure Greece’s economic model.

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Editorial To Vima: Alexis the small

Alexis Tsipras is attempting to organise an autarchic party with a hegemonic leader along the lines of Pasok’s model of governance in the 1980’s under Andreas Papandreou.

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PM warnns of urgent need to enforce public health measures, says only alternative a new lockdown

'I have proven that I do not hesitate to swiftly make difficult decisions but in order to stem the new wave of the pandemic the state, scientists, and citizens cooperate," Mitsotakis declared.

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As Greece, Turkey prepare for talks Mitsotakis expresses guarded optimism, EU, US welcome development

'Very useful exchange with President Erdogan on developments in the Eastern Mediterranean and on migration. I welcome the planned launch of talks with Greece, which are essential for stability in the Eastern Mediterranean,' said Von der Leyen.

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Editorial Ta Nea: Disaster restoration

PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis has often declared that he is a liberal. This is a case in which the government must not fear offering state aid.

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Editorial Ta Nea: Crises

It is necessary for civil protection funding to be increased and invested in the most efficient manner. Building a contemporary state will be an important legacy. for the

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Editorial To Vima: Delicate balances

The government must act very quickly to bolster the health system as aside from SARS-CoV-2 the winter will bring other healthcare challenges as well.

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European Council President Michel, Mitsotakis agree on firm stance toward Turkey

'We have the issue of security and stability in the Eastern Mediterranean which is not the affair of Greece and Cyprus alone but an EU issue,' Michel said

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Editorial Ta Nea: The message

The PM pledged to take all necessary measures to protect workers and employees who are most threatened by the impact of the uncertainty and the huge economic tempest triggered by the pandemic.

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Mitsotakis lays out policy planning on economy, relations with Turkey, pandemic management

'This is the biggest economic crisis since 1929, but Greece, compared to other European countries, is performing not as bad as it was initially estimated,' the PM declared.

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Editorial To Vima: Europe is not just France

Only France is stepping forward to staunchly and with clear judgment support Greece’s just positions. Other EU countries, however, are not doing their part as their interests have led them to adopt a neutral stance.

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Led by France, Euro-Mediterranean MED7 Conference slams Turkey, supports Greece, Cyprus

In addition MED7 leaders urged Greece and Turkey to dialogue. The seven leaders led by Emmanuel Macron are not prepared to accept Turkish hegemony in the Mediterranean.

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Editorial Ta Nea: Tears

At times indifferent, at other times weak, and at other times hiding behind the refusal of local societies to bear their portion of the burden, the competent officials had buried their heads in the sand with the hope that the problem would gradually disappear.

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Editorial To Vima: A front against irrationality

Let us not forget that democracy is the best form of government with one precondition – that citizens be educated and properly informed.

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Mitsotakis, ministers, top officials review measures for after 1 July international tourism launch

Regarding non-EU countries, Greece will follow the list drawn by the EU, while until July 15 no direct flights will be allowed from the UK and Sweden. Passengers arriving in Greece will have had to fill out a special form providing basic information 48 hours before their arrival day and time.

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PM meets with National Research Council, no commitments for a research funding push

The president of the Council, Manolis Derrmitzakis has called for major funding for research in a spate of interviews in which he also criticises the one-sided governmental emphasis on start-ups.

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Greece seeks to use momentum from EEZ accord with Italy to strike deals with Egypt, Albania

Greek diplomats had long privately conceded that it is Ankara that has long worked to block any EEZ deal between Greece and its neighbours.

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Editorial Ta Nea: Expectations

No one would quarrel with the upgrading of Greece state schools, as long as successive governments do not use it to serve partisan objectives.

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Mitsotakis announces stimulus package, opens international flights 1 July without Covid-19 test

The PM boasted that the  Greek people through perseverance in weathering the crisis and religiously following public health guidelines in the lockdown turned Greece into a model country.

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Editorial Ta Nea: Trust

Certain political forces must understand at long last the role of the Central Bank, the degree of independence from political power that it enjoys, and to whom it must offer an accounting.

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Mitsotakis seeks New Deal with labour to push pandemic recovery plan

'Physical presence is necessary at the great majority of jobs, let's be honest, and this means introducing new protocols under new circumstances, adapted to specific workplaces,' the PM said.

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Editorial To Vima: Time to rally together

We don’t know if there will be a second wave of the epidemic and we cannot predict how dynamic, coordinated, and effective the EU’s response to the economic shock will be.

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Church of Greece: The coal, the archbishop, the PM and the pandemic

The late archbishop Seraphim famously quipped at the time that the Church of Greece is like a piece of coal. If you touch it when lit you are burned and if you touch it when cold you are soiled.

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Editorial Ta Nea: Recipes

Under no circumstances should the government allow even a suspicion that it will seek to serve partisan special interests or social and professional groups that are pro-government.

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SYRIZA, KINAL demand labour minister’s resignation over botched vocational voucher programme

Aside from ordering that the voucher programme be scrapped the PM ordered  a general investigation of the operation of vocational training centres.

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Top marks for Greek coronavirus management from TIME magazine

Like most of the international press, the magazine attributes the country’s success to sweeping restrictive measures that began well before those of other European countries.

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Editorial To Vima: The Tsiodras committee model for the economy

The government’s economic team and the PM must broaden their circle of interlocutors and marshal forces which are not necessarily political but have experience in effectively dealing with complex situations in times of crisis.

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On coronavirus lockdown government uses stick in April, carrot in May

Infectious Diseases Professor Sotiris Tsiodras urged citizens to obey a strict ban on travel from cities to provinces as such travel will expose unaffected populations to the virus.

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PM urges continued lockdown discipline, braces nation for major recession

Mitsotakis said that from the very start the government took measures to support incomes and allocated over 14 billion euros to support workers and businesses, and is also accessing another 10 billion euros in liquidity and European funding.

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Editorial To Vima:Rising to the occasion

The level of debate in Parliament yesterday was a far cry from what one used to see in the tumultuous years of Greece’s bailout memorandum and prior to that.

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Crisis brings government, Syriza closer as Tsipras backs lockdown, seeks mass hiring of tenured doctors

“We are not at the beginning of the end. We are perhaps at the end of the beginning,” the PM said in underlining the need for a continuation of the lockdown.

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Government buys time with stimulus package as Berlin denies lifeblood of coronabond

Berlin proposes that those hardest hit repair to the ESM for loans that would break the back of the highly indebted countries.

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In symbolic gesture ND ministers, MPs to donate half of salary to Coronavirus fight

 'As the government was first to mobilise, with bold measures against the pandemic, so our country's political classes must stand on the front lines of solidarity,'said PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis,

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Editorial Ta Nea: Priorities

It would be disastrous to leave the economy to its own devices as many governments in Europe realise though there are glaring and unfortunate exceptions, which have made the situation even more difficult.

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Editorial To Vima: ‘Power reveals the mettle of a man’

In managing the effects of the Coronavirus pandemic he positively impressed everyone with his clear judgment, the directness of his choices, and his swift reaction.

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PM stresses existential battle against coronavirus, economic trials on Greek Independence Day

"We have had and will have losses, and our economy will suffer. But it is our duty to reduce the pain to the least possible and to share the cost of adapting to the new economic reality in a just way," he said.

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Greece in quarantine: Mitsotakis declares nationwide lockdown as of 6am tomorrow

This is perhaps the ultimate step that an organised democratic state can take and it must be done in a timely manner in order for it not to be taken in vain because right now time is not counted in days but rather in hours.

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PM announces 10bn euro spending package, EU funding

A series of measures announced by the government are designed to prevent the collapse of the economy and a steep rise in unemployment.

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Greece shuts borders for non-EU nationals, PM speaks of ‘war economy’ and nightmarish aftermath

In his second nationally televised address on the government’s strategy in dealing with Covid-19 today Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis braced Greeks for a multi-front “war”

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Editorial To Vima: A time for responsibility

The common conviction is that it must be confronted with strong and impassable walls that only communities of citizens can construct by protecting themselves and faithfully enforcing public health restrictions.

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Greek cities becoming ghost towns as government launches COVID-19 ‘stay home’ campaign

The stance of the government and infectious diseases (ID) experts is to urge and force Greeks nationwide to hunker down at home until the coronavirus tsunami recedes.

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Mitsotakis courts investors in Berlin, holds talks on migration crisis, Turkey with Merkel

'In the last 10 days we have shown that we can defend our national and European sovereignty. Greece and Europe cannot be blackmailed by anyone,' the PM told the German-Hellenic Economic Forum.

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Greece blasts Turkey’s flooding of borders with migrants, seeks EU emergency action

The Greek government announced emergency measures to counter an “asymmetrical threat” from Turkey which it accused of directing in a coordinated manner the passage of many thousands of migrants to the land and sea borders of Greece.

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Government seeks truce with Northern Aegean islanders, uproar over riot police violence

Nineteen lawyers from Mytilini, the capital of Lesvos, have filed a lawsuit against “all bearing criminal responsibility” detailing acts of violence and egregious violation of police regulations during their operations on the island.

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Editorial To Vima: The new wealth of Greece

The country’s candidacy and accession to the European Economic Community was an inspired and bold move, yet Greece failed to properly incorporate the principles and rules of the environment offered

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EIB, National Bank of Greece and Piraeus Bank launch 560mn euro agriculture investment project

Over the last five years, the EIB has provided over EUR 4 billion for investment across Greece in cooperation with leading Greek Banks.

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Record low Greek bond yield spurs talk of investment grade, ECB bond buyback, economic recovery

Bloomberg notes that the ratings of Greek bonds by the agencies and the possible upgrading of Greek bonds to investment level may be enough to turn around the economy and open the door for participation in the ECB programme.

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Opposition suggests Oruc Reis incident linked to Turkish demands not to approach Imia

The Turkish research vessel on 31 January entered an area above the Greek continental shelf causing heightened concern in Athens, as it entered and exited areas under Greek sovereignty for many hours.

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Editorial To Vima: The prime minister’s error

The impasse in Greek football is the result of the government’s choices and whoever cannot see that is simply turning a blind eye.

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Editorial To Vima: Triple message of support from Paris

The French president’s remarks at a joint press conference with PM Mitsotakis are to date the clearest and most emphatic message of support of Greece’s sovereign rights.

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Greece, France firm up defence, energy coperation amidst Turkish threats

Though strong international players such as the US and the EU have criticised the MOU it is clear that only France has begun to offer palpable backing at sea in the Mediterranean.

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US keeps equal distances from Greece, Turkey on Mediterranean, Aegean disputes

In a tweet on the 27 conversation Trump’s spokesman John Deere said, 'President Trump also highlighted the importance of Turkey and Greece resolving their disagreements in the eastern Mediterranean.'

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Editorial To Vima: It takes a job of work for the sun to turn

The government’s social, economic growth, and foreign policy must be demonstrable and cohesive so as to persuade and motivate all of the country’s political forces.

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Mitsotakis upbeat on foreign investment prospects, denounces Turkish provocations

Regarding Greek-Turkish relations the PM slammed Ankara for its bellicose posture stressing that Turkey signed an MOU with Libya which is legally null and void on EEZ delimitation.

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Editorial To Vima: Just three minutes sufficed

President-elect Sakellaropoulou spoke of a 'society that by relying on its democratic tradition heals the wounds of the past, confronts current challenges, and looks to the future with optimism'.

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Editorial Ta Nea: A victory for democracy

Greece's president-elect is independent, ecologically sensitive, dedicated, and has demonstrated her respect for the rule of law.

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Editorial Ta Nea: Audacity

Erdogan went as far as to maintain that Turkish-occupied Cyprus (recognised only by Turkey as a state) will split any gas and oil Ankara finds in the EEZ of the Republic of Cyprus with the Greek-Cypriots.

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Editorial To Vima: In search of lost time

Greece must not be dragged along by the sensationalist moves that are a staple of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, whether he is motivated by expansionism, megalomania or domestic issues..

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Editorial To Vima: A step toward progress

Politicians during the crisis were unable to do the self-evident – to have everyone table their proposals for the economy to transcend the impasse and find a path of recovery.

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Haftar in Athens, Greece to veto EU approval of Libya peace deal if MOU with Turkey not canceled

The head of the National Libyan Army has expressed his intense displeasure over Greece’s exclusion from the Berlin Conference.