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The greatest problem in bilateral relation are Ankara’s persistent claims against Greek sovereign rights in the Aegean and its efforts to hinder Cyprus' gas-drilling programme.

The Bank of Greece proposal gives banks the ability to utilise in the proper direction existing projections and their substantial capital reserves.

Spyraki said that for New Democracy any change to parliamentary rules is a non-starter and she called upon Parliament Speaker Nikos Voutsis to not even raise the issue.

Tsipras hastened to reverse the government’s plan following charges from the opposition and the press that he was being blackmailed

If a prolongation of the government’s term is pursued with dubious means, it will ineluctably lead to a debasement of parliamentary procedures and of the Republic.

'You cannot have certain people viewing SYRIZA as progressive when in fact it serves the interests of the few and powerful, both in Greece and abroad,' Gennimata said.

The change would allow the leader of a party with fewer than five MPs to retain the same privileges he or she did when they led a recognised group.

In the Prespa Accord ratification, party leader Panos Kammenos chose to lose MPs (who defected to back the accord) and party cadres and to end his partnership with PM Alexis Tsipras,

In 2018, the Open Society Foundation’s budget was approximately one billion dollars US, of which 81.7mn were earmarked for Europe

Gennimata expelled from the party the leader of the small, cooperating Democratic Left party, Thanasis Theocharopoulos

Zaev said that he negotiated with Greece without the ethnic identity of Macedonians who speak Macedonian and have their own tradition and history being disputed.

The ruling SYRIZA party had to 'borrow' votes in order to secure a confidence vote and then to ratify the Prespa Accord.

The report espouses the view of New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis that Skopje’s EU candidacy can be used to ensure proper implementation of the Prespa Accord.

With 145 MPs in the 300-seat legislature ruling SYRIZA will from now on depend on ad hoc majorities with six extra independent MPs.

Apostolakis said that the two countries’ longstanding defence cooperation is constantly increasing, and that from now on it will be much more effective.

The five-year bond issue in no way constitutes a re-incorporation in the international economic system as it is an isolated event.

"Greece ranks first as concerns the use of funding backed from the EFSI", he said, and explained that over 22,000 small and medium-sized businesses have benefited from the funding.

Greece's main opposition leader drops innuendo about possible improper ties between PM Alexis Tsipras and the Venezuelan leader.

Among the nearly 180 countries on the CPI list, Greece ranks 67th, falling by eight notches from 2017, and is now at the same level as Senegal and Montenegro.

'I did not hesitate to disagree even openly with our large European partners, including Angela Merkel,' Mitsotakis told Parliament