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'The increase in the debt of the General Government in 2018 is due to the creation of a cash buffer, part of which will be used in 2019,' the finance ministry noted.

The budget again reflects the strategy of the government of overreaching primary surplus targets, allowing for a bit of generosity towards targeted social groups, with an eye to the next general election.

The government appears to have managed achieve its two top goals of averting pension cuts and obtaining approval for a list of social benefits that Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras announced.

The school will train military and civilian employees on how to manage military information that affects their country’s national security.

Kammenos was sued by Miranda Xafa and Haris Makkas for slander, after he had claimed that they profited from inside information on Greece’s bankruptcy by buying and then selling Credit Default Swaps.

The problem of non-performing Loans (NPLs), despite the ambitious plans presented of late, remains the gaping wound of Greek banks.

Ieronymos found that many in the hierarchy of Metropolitan bishops were livid over the agreement, and they issued a communiqué stating that they will not accept priests being taken off the registry of civil servants.

The shop-owner and another man were seen on a video viewed all around the country kicking Costopoulos in the head as he tried to emerge from the bottom window of the store’s façade.

Kotzias said that, 'Visas for unaccompanied minors points to organ trade, and hence I have no burden on my conscience, as I know that I contributed to saving a few souls.'

When one urges pensioners to hasten to submit applications, and when one promises to hand out that part of the primary surplus that exceeds targets one unavoidably stirs expectations that are difficult to meet.

Asked about the Prespa naming agreement, 65 percent of respondents were opposed, and 17 percent were in favour. Five percent said the issue did not concern them, and 13 percent said they were neither for or against.

Centeno said that the lending “institutions” trust Greece as regards continued implementation of reforms and meeting commitments in the coming years, so as to become a success story.

The majority report of a parliamentary committee investigating possible scandals in the state’s procurement of medicines and vaccines has recommended a further judicial probe of the case.

Ex-PM Costas Simitis and his two public order ministers are not chance politicians, nor have any shadows been cast on their political activity.

The Greek corporate scandal that was brought to light by the American Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in Piraeus’ Akti Miaouli – Dimitris Melissanidis’ “leap” from Piraeus to the Emirate of Fujairah in the Arabian Peninsula – produced direct charges of embezzlement of $300mn by the Ernst and Young auditing committee. US Ambassador to Athens Geoffrey Pyatt cooperated with the investigation – Meanwhile, Spyros Fokas, the General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Aegean, who has been removed but faces heavy charges, has stayed on as First Vice-President of OPAP, Greece’s leading gaming company

How did happen that Antonis Papadimitriou was able to “ostracise” everyone, and to now act as the great and sole manager of the huge estate of Aristotle Onassis, bargaining with Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to secure his dominance in the fields of health, education, and letters and culture. It is unheard of not to have a member of the Onassis family in the Foundation that bears his name.

A stormy, Marathon meeting of the entire hierarchy (79 Metropolitan bishops) flatly rejected the Tsipras - Ieronymos plan to take priests and lay employees of the Church off the Civil Service rolls but to pay them the same salaries

The UK today is experiencing absolute irrationality. The country that established parliamentary democracy was subjugated over recent years to populists and demagogues.

“Shall we resolve this issue with Greece through diplomacy or shall we go to court? For us, there is yet another option, allowing the threat of a Greek-Turkish clash to linger,” he said.

The Eurogroup will be briefed on Monday, 19 November, and will give its approval for Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos to submit a final budget without the cuts.