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‘Are there any Chinese there?’ Greek tourism hit hard by cancellations amid coronavirus outbreak

by Symela Touchtidou EuronewsFebruary 12, 2020 The effects of the Covid-19 coronavirus are not just about those who have caught it. The outbreak has had significant knock-on effects on the Chinese economy, as well as the tourism industry worldwide. In Greece, about 200,000 tourists arrived in 2019 and at least 250,000 were expected this year. …

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Top judge to become Greece’s first female president

by Kerin Hope Financial TimesJanuary 22, 2020 Katerina Sakellaropoulou, a senior Greek judge, has won the overwhelming backing of MPs to become the county’s first female president. The 63-year-old head of the state council, Greece’s highest court, was supported in a vote by 261 deputies in the 300-seat parliament, after securing endorsements from the ruling …

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Katerina Sakellaropoulou: High court judge becomes Greece’s first female president

EuronewsJanuary 22, 2020 High court judge, Katerina Sakellaropoulou, has become Greece’s first female president, after a vote in Parliament on Wednesday. Two opposition parties sided with the centre-right government’s nomination to give Sakellaropoulou 261 votes, way more than the 200 needed. Centre-left opposition parties had already backed Sakellaropoulou’s nomination before Wednesday’s vote. She will take …

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The Greek Debt Crisis: No easy way out

Peterson Institute for International EconomicsJanuary 2020 After World War II, farsighted European leaders sought to overcome centuries of hatred and warfare by striving step-by-step toward economic and political integration. Today an ongoing economic crisis in Greece poses a grave threat to that vision, bearing major lessons for the future of global economic cooperation. Europe’s postwar …

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Greek economy: will reality collide with fresh optimism in Athens?

by Ben Hall & Kerin Hope Financial TimesJanuary 8, 2020 Odos Lekka, a narrow street in the commercial heart of Athens, has not been this bustling in a decade. Workers are busy refurbishing a drab warehouse left unoccupied during Greece’s prolonged recession. A clutch of new cafés and a smart boutique hotel, one of scores …

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Israel, Greece and Cyprus set to seal €6bn gas pipeline deal

by Ilan Ben Zion & Ayla Jean Yackley Financial TimesJanuary 2, 2020 Israel, Greece and Cyprus are set to sign a trilateral agreement that will lay the groundwork for a planned gas pipeline connecting Israel’s offshore fields with Europe but which risks raising tensions with Turkey over what Ankara sees as its exclusion from the …

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