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Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias at a cabinet meeting today unleashed a vitriolic attack against Defence Minister Panos Kammenos, after the latter trashed the Greece-FYROM Prespa Agreement at an official meeting with US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis in Washington, where he proposed his own Plan B, in lieu of FYROM’s Nato membership, with Balkan alliances that […]

'If Mr. Kammenos wants to participate in these efforts toward stability, certainly he will. However, this cannot be done with constant statements and startling moves, or when he pays an official visit to Washington and presents his personal views and not those of the government. We cannot move forward that way,” said the former education minister.

SYRIZA ministers have said that, even without Kammenos, the government can muster an absolute majority both for ratification of the Prespa Agreement, and for a possible no-confidence motion by main opposition New Democracy.

The Left was once in the frontline in the defence of democratic values, and was the first to go to battle, with personal sacrifices in confronting all manner of autarchic thinking and practices. Now that it is in power, the cadres that manage that power not only demean their ideas in order to keep their offices.

The energy minister said that the end of the month he will announce the national energy plan, which provides for a gradual reduction of the use of lignite, based on the high environment targets for 2030,

The Russian Church in a statement said that until the Church of Constantinople “annuls the illegal decisions it took, there can be no joint services with [Ecumenical Patriarchate] clergy”.

Staikouras said, the government in not justified in triumphantly declaring a “return to normalcy”, as the country is in a state of paralytic stagnation.

the Greek side is working on the sidelines to ensure at least the tolerance of those who disagree. That was the approach of Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos at meetings with IMF chief Christine Lagarde and Poul Thomsen, leaving European finance ministers to make the final decision.

Τhe situation prevailing in Greek football has reached red alert. It is a stench for which FIFA and UEFA bear responsibility - The legal representative of Olympiacos placed the cleanup and the stench in the centre

Defence Minister Panos Kammenos assumed the mantle of foreign minister and presented his own plan for a Balkan alliance, supported by creating new American bases in Greece.

In an exclusive interview with Ta Nea, FYROM Prime Minister Zoran Zaev expresses the conviction that political problems are solved by implementing a new policy, and not by changing borders.

Sources say that the suspects will testify on all aspects of the disaster, including possible crimes identified in the prosecutors’ probe, including felonies such as voluntary manslaughter and exposure to deadly danger

The PM’s office, Parliament Speaker Nikos Voutsis, and many SYRIZA cadres distance themselves from Kammenos’ statements and described them as inexplicable, though for some time there has been talk about expansion of the US military presence in Greece.

Of the total amount of aid, Greek authorities receive 794mn euros, 506.67mn euros go to the UNHCR (UN refugee agency) 119.7mn euros to the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), 26mn euros to the European Asylum Support Office (EASO), and 201 million to various NGOs partnered with the European Commission.

Ιt is evident that an industry of prison releases, based on reasons of health or handicaps, has been set up, and is unfortunately commonplace in Greece.

The defence minister is a walking time bomb. In the face of his personal political impasse,he is ready at any given moment to raise tensions, and create turbulence, in order to negotiate his political salvation.

Kammenos maintained that the American military presence in Greece could bolster Greece’s defence policy, with the transfer of knowhow, in a period in which new threats are arising.

Given the climate of a more general insecurity in the markets due to the Italian crisis, it is absolutely necessary for Greek banks to be shielded from the dangers, created by the daily aggressive behaviour on the stock market.

The German Chancellor again weighed in to support the Greece-FYROM aaccord in a letter to FYROM’s Prime Minister Zoran Zaev.

The main opposition VMRO-DPMNE party, from which Zaev hopes to draw votes, is fiercely against the agreement, and was the motive force behind the boycott of the referendum on the Prespa Agreement.