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The EU admitted all of Cyprus in 2004 and according to the Accession Treaty (2003) the community acquis (EU laws and regulations) is suspended in occupied Cyprus pending a settlement of the Cyprus problem.

Although the international economic recovery has a way to go, the extension of a cycle of low interest rates creates important opportunities for Greece.

Von der Leyen needs to be confirmed in her new job by an absolute majority of the 751 EU lawmakers.

The tanks along with their ammunition were transported from the Turkish city of Edirne by transport ship.

Centre-left Movement for Change leader rips into PM even as he dons the mantle of the leader of the country's 'progressive front'.

'He [the ND leader] is not among those in New Democracy who governed between 2004-2009 and who led the country with their irresponsible economic policy a step closer to catastrophe,' FAZ opined.

That in 2015 17bn euros in state funds were lost in bank recaps and that non-performing loans burgeoned are obviously mere details for the PM.

“The first thing that is necessary for economic growth to be boosted is a stable government, a strong majority in the next parliament,” Mitsotakis told Reuters

The Office of the Supreme Court Prosecutor is a post with great independence and power, but unfortunately Xeni Dimitriou offered it up as a trophy to the executive branch of government.

Lebedev’s first attempt to do business in Greece came in 2013 when Russian companies sought to acquire DEPA (Public Gas Corporation of Greece)-DESFA (Hellenic Gas Transmission System Operator SA) without results at the time.

The Franco-German axis is not as in sync as it used to be, and Chancellor Angela Merkel is no longer the all-powerful leader who announces decisions with which a host of leaders and states fall in line.

Judges and prosecutors maintain that Article 100A of the new penal code allows Alexandros Giotopoulos, Savvas Xiros, Christodoulos Xiros, and Vasilis Tzortzatos to apply for release from prison.

The new poll gives New Democracy 35.4 percent, SYRIZA 26.2 percent, the Movement for Change 8.7 percent (one percentage point above its result in the European election).

The defence minister underlined Greece’s efforts to achieve a normalisation of relations.

Citizens cannot endure any more experiments and they seek liberation from the shackles of the long and relentless crisis.

The only thing that Mitsotakis and PM Alexis Tsipras admit that they have in common is the conviction that they must attract voting groups from scratch and that every vote counts.

Gennimata was responding to Mitsotakis’ stark ultimatum to the electorate that the only path to political stability is a strong parliamentary majority for ND.

For some odd reason, we have linked the freedom to propagate ideas and the prohibition of external interventions with toleration for violence, lawlessness, AND thuggish attacks against university teaching staff.

'Today, Greece is not only a country that is a critical energy hub in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Balkans but is also starting to implement a plan that ultimately aims to turn it into an energy-producing country,' PM Alexis Tsipras said.

The profile raises questions about whether Greece’s creditors and European partners will be persuaded of the basic tenet of New Democracy’s platform, that it can bring the four percent growth rate it says will pay for deep tax cuts.