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We are going to see presentations from top US companies at TIF this year, including major sponsors like Microsoft, Google, CocaCola, Cisco, Visa, IBM, Intralot, Pfizer, and Hewlett-Packard, highlighting the theme “Harnessing the Power of Innovation and Creativity” and demonstrating their commitment to invest in and be present in Greece.

Kotzias predicted that when the agreement comes into effect (after its ratification in the Greek parliament), the US will begin to call the country North Macedonia

The super-primary surplus (beyond target) that Mr. Tsipras is planning to distribute should not be used to garner votes, if we do not want to jeopardise the course of the economy and the country.

A group of about 15 hooded Rouvikonas members barged into the Ministry of Agriculture in Athens and threw fliers stating “Bayer-Monsanto and the Greek state are spreading death”.

Regarding wage levels, the majority responded that the minimum wage in the private sector should be determined through negotiations between the government, employers and workers.

Despite the warning shots from the markets, the government continues to play the handouts pledges game, which has resulted in a dangerous rise of borrowing interest rates.

The opportunistic management of the economy, the political uncertainty of a protracted electoral campaign, and the clouds gathering around the country are being registered by the markets, which are again turning their back on Greece.

Nato, at its 12 July summit issued an invitation for Skopje to begin the accession process, noting that implementation of the naming accord is a precondition for membership.

Nimetz said if the agreement is rejected either in FYROM’s referendum or in its parliament, it could take another 25 years for another opportunity to resolve the naming issue.

Coeure referred to the need to improve the governance of banks, and called on the government to avoid practices that could influence their credit decisions.

Let everyone – and first of all the government – realise that this perpetual scandal-mongering is undermining the parties themselves, and is leading the country to a new impasse.

The fact that Dunford is visiting Greece in a period in which US-Turkey relations have reached their nadir, naturally without a stopover in Turkey, has been viewed by some as another clear message to Ankara.

In a thinly veiled barb against Greece, Cavusoglu said that, 'Turkey would never give permission to people that are considered by you to be traitors to remain in Turkey, nor provide hospitality to aspiring terrorists and coup-plotters.'

Publisher Kostas Vaxevanis in his lawsuit charged that Zacharakis had, on a 2 September television programme, slandered him, as she falsely accused Vaxevanis of having been convicted on charges of slander

The statement comes straight on the heels of a Wikileaks revelation of a US Embassy wire, which indicated that Skopje in 2008 was prepared to accept all the elements of the current agreement.

The tragic thing is that no systematic dialogue on the changes was conducted. The views of university faculties were ignored, so that Education Minister Kostas Gavroglu could pretend that there will be no entrance exams for faculties for which there is low demand.

'Your continuing omission of ordering an administrative probe with sworn testimony (EDE), conceals the ulterior motive of a cover-up of the responsibilities of those responsible for the national tragedy,' Andrianos Gourbatsis said in open letter to the new public order minister.

Vangelis Marinakis did not only make good on one of the greatest moves of Olympiacos (comparable only to that of Rivaldo), but in this manner he also offered momentum to all of Greek football.

“Do we give all of the primary surplus that exceeds targets to pensioners, or do we support those with very low pensions by choosing a package of measures to stimulate an increase in employment and growth?” is the dilemma face by the government?

The Greek economy followed an upward trend in the second quarter of 2018, with a growth rate of 1.8 percent on an annual basis and 0.2 percent on a quarterly basis.