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Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis was among the first international leaders on Monday to extend their congratulations to the 47th President of the United States, 78-year-old Donald Trump. Heartfelt congratulations to @realDonaldTrump on being sworn in as the 47th President of the United States. Greece is committed to our strong …

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Arrivals of British tourists in Greece are expected to exceed 4 million in 2023, Tourism Minister Vassilis Kikilias said on Thursday at meeting with UK’s Ambassador Matthew Lodge at the Cycladic Museum of Art. Kikilias thanked United Kingdom Ambassador to Athens Matthew Lodge for his contribution to the record numbers …

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Greece expects tourist arrivals this year to reach half the levels seen in 2019, a government spokeswoman said on Friday, after the coronavirus pandemic led to the country’s worst tourism season in decades in 2020. Greece, which relies on tourism for a fifth of its economy, saw just 7 million …

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Travel agents in Greece were everything but optimist. They mostly deal with the domestic tourist market and their forecast are ominous. Furthermore they complain that they have been excluded from the government program for subsidized social tourism with the effect that they can hardly manage to restart the sector. Travel …

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Greece’s tourism industry is expected to draw 32 million visitors in 2018, in what will be a record year for the sector, said Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Thursday. Speaking at a general meeting of the Greek Tourism Federation (SETE), Tsipras said that data indicates that tourism revenues this year …

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan go to summit with high-ranking EU officials with a video in his pocket and high expectations. On his Want-List are the 3billion-euro funding for the refugees, the Turkish citizens ( the Gulenists) who fled to EU after the failed coup of 2016,  Visa-free travels, combat …

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The Greek team goes to Eurogroup with anything but great expectations. The topic “Greece” is third on today’s agenda of the finance ministers of the eurozone.  Athens seeks a political solution to the Greek problem and anticipates the meeting between German Chancellor Angela Merkel with the managing director of the …

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Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos was already in Brussels, when the Greek Parliament was voting to adopt the Pensions Reforms and new Taxation bill short after midnight. In order to avoid that even one vote is missing, Tsakalotos made use of the option to vote per letter. He was certainly happy …

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European Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner Olli Rehn put a stop to Greece’s expectations of a revision of the austerity program due to IMF’s miscalculations of fiscal multipliers. In a letter to ECOFIN ministers snet on 13. February 2013, Rehn wrote among others ““Recent studies on fiscal multipliers are of …

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What does the Greek government expect from German Chancellor on visit today? What is Angela Merkel willing to give? Prime Minister Antonis Samaras’s highest expectation is to have the negative climate against Greece changed. And thus before the crucial EU Summit on October 18th 2012. First of all, Samaras expects …

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The election campaign ends today, the political parties are to hold their last meeting, and candidates to appear for the last time in the mass media. The Greek voter is supposed to get a 24-hour break from the bombardment of the ‘promises’ and ‘dilemmas’ (euro or drachma?) in order to contemplate …

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