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EU told to tackle food cost differences across the bloc

Greece is one of the eight EU states that urged Brussels to clamp down on multinational giants unfairly limiting the sale of products within the bloc, forcing European consumers to …

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Poland, Greece call for EU to create ‘air defence shield’

Poland and Greece on Thursday called for the European Union to create an “air defence shield” to better protect the bloc in the face of Russia’s war on Ukraine. “Europe …

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Greek court drops charges in migrant shipwreck case

A Greek court on Tuesday dropped charges against nine Egyptians over one of the Mediterranean’s worst migrant shipwrecks in which rights groups said they had been made scapegoats for the …

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Trial opens in Greece over migrant tragedy

The trial of nine accused smugglers opened in Greece on Tuesday, nearly a year after a migrant trawler with hundreds on board sank off the country’s coast, in one of …

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Greece urges EU defend consumers against multinationals

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis called on the EU to take on multinationals unfairly restricting the sale of goods in the single market, leading to higher prices for struggling consumers. …

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Greek PM Mitsotakis projects victory in upcoming European Elections

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis confidently declared that New Democracy will emerge victorious in the upcoming European elections during a tour of the northern Athenian suburb of Vrilissia on Saturday …

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Mitsotakis responds to Mickoski’s Prespa Agreement challenge over North Macedonia name

The latest challenge to the 2018 Prespa Agreement has sparked a nationalist flare-up in North Macedonia. Just days after newly elected President Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova omitted “North” from her oath of …

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Greece’s oldest known woman in Crete dies 119

Greece’s oldest known woman, Eleni Baroulaki, passed away on Tuesday May 14 at the age of 119 on the island of Crete. According to Kathimerini, Baroulaki was born in 1905 …

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Greece migrant boat disaster suspects are ‘scapegoats’, lawyers say

Nine Egyptians on trial for a shipwreck off the Greek coast that cost the lives of some 600 migrants last year are scapegoats to deflect the blame from the Greek …

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Greece arsonists to face stiffer sentences: minister

Greece’s civil protection minister on Wednesday warned that arsonists would face stiffer sentences, as wildfires started earlier than usual in the Mediterranean country. “The penal code has changed, negligent arson …

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