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A bipartisan group of US legislators have filed amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that would prevent the sale of F-16 fighter jets to Turkey if Ankara continues its territorial overflights and air space violations in the Aegean. The amendment was submitted to Congress at the initiative of …

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Alarm in the Aegean Sea: five boats with dozens of migrants onboard attempted to illegally cross into Greek territorial waters in the early morning hours of Monday. The Greek Coast Guard spotted the boats between the islands of Chios and Samos and th operation is still ongoing on Monday noon. …

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The Greek government is seeking to block the Turkish-Libyan deal on maritime boundaries and is preparing to to give concession for exploration and exploitation of hydrocarbons in the offshore plot south of Crete. According to daily Ta Nea, Athens is preparing a matte move in the area. the plot is …

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US President Donald Trump is determined to impose one sanction after the other on Turkey until US pastor Andrew Brunson is released. On Monday , Trump signed the Defense Bill containing among others a clause that blocks the delivery of F-35 fighter jets to Turkey. The move comes amid the …

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Greek Justice Minister Stavros Kontonis intervened in the extradition case of  Turkish journalist Turgut Kaya. With a ministerial decision issued on Saturday, Kontonis froze the extradition  the extradition process ordered by a Greek court earlier this year. The Turkish journalist, aged 45, has been on a hunger strike since the …

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Greece’s farmers are angry and in protest mood claiming that their problems have not been solved by the government. During a meeting of the Pan-Hellenic Block Committee in Larissa, Central Greece, over the weekend, representatives from several farmers’ organizations decided to start their mobilizations as of January 20th 2018. The …

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The State Auditors Court dropped a bombshell: it ruled that municipality workers with extended work contracts will have to return the salaries they received in the time their contracts were extended. The Court considers the extension of contracts even to one year as against the constitution.  The decision will affect …

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The Greek Association of Notaries decided on Tuesday, October 11th, to abstain from property auctions scheduled to take place today, Wednesday.  The notaries ask the political and legal system of the country to take concrete decisions to solve the issue of auctions and especially of the auctions of the first …

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Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras threatens to block all EU refugee decisions if Greece will be left to deal with the crisis alone. Commenting on Austria’s initiative to hold a West Balkan Conference on Migration, Tsipras described it as “unacceptable”. PM Tsipras said he will block all decisions at an …

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Euro zone countries tried in vain to stop the IMF publishing a gloomy analysis of Greece’s debt burden which the leftist government says vindicates its call to voters to reject bailout terms, sources familiar with the situation said on Friday. As Reuters reports, publication of the draft Debt Sustainability Analysis …

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Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis threatened that Greece can take the EU and the Eurozone (?) to European Court of Justice in order to block a Greek exit from the euro area. “They cannot drive us away from the eurozone,” Varoufakis told UK’s Telegraph.   The Finance Minister said that the …

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With banners and anti-austerity slogans PAME-members of the Greek Communist Party (KKE) union settled in front of the Labour Ministry in Athens hindering representatives of Greece’s lenders to meet the minister. The meeting between Yiannis Vroutsis and the Troika was scheduled for 1:00 p.m. However the representatives of IMF, EU and ECB …

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