Greek billionaire dilutes largest EU anti-Russian sanctions package with an LNG exemption
The battle over this 21st sanctions round lays bare a new fault line in Europe’s Russia policy, with Greece and Austria securing sensitive carve-outs.
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Listen: Does Alexis Tsipras stand a chance of becoming Greece’s prime minister again?
As the conservative government bleeds popularity, Tsipras is testing whether a hybrid message of radical left economics and “patriotism” can redraw Greece’s political map before next year’s election.
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‘Like a jet engine in your ear’: Greek police use military-style stun grenades on protests
Stun grenades have no place in the policing of protests. The right to freedom of peaceful assembly in Greece is being blatantly violated both in law and in practice.
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Turkey’s new maritime law to impose Erdoğan’s ‘territorial fiction’ on Eastern Mediterranean
Most will see the maritime bill as legal codification of regional assertiveness, but it’s also a lot more: A way of legitimising Turkey’s geopolitical revisionism.
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Greece, Cyprus and Hungary worst offenders on press freedoms in EU
Sierra Leone, Senegal, Zambia and Qatar have better press freedoms when compared to both Greece and Cyprus.
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Years of evidence and still no admission from EU Commission on Greek pushbacks
Despite years of evidence and verified reports by a senior official within the EU’s border agency Frontex, the European Commission still won’t acknowledge that Greece pushes back migrants, which is illegal under EU law.
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Greece accused of deploying Afghan paramilitaries to attack asylum seekers
Operating under the supervision of three Greek officers, the Afghan unit robbed, stabbed, threatened rape, and beat 61 newly-arrived migrants in 2023, says the report.
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How the EU is building a dystopian, surveillance-driven, deportation machine
Like much recent EU migration legislation, the proposal was presented without a comprehensive fundamental rights impact assessment. Sixteen UN experts have already raised concerns about its compatibility with international law. Yet EU institutions are rushing the file through the legislative process.
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The latest Greek tragedy — what the law actually says about maritime intercepts
This week’s fatal collision between a Greek coast guard vessel and a migrant boat off the island of Chios has once again brought European maritime enforcement practices under scrutiny, raising questions about accountability and balance between border control and the protection of human life at sea.