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The expected completion of the last bailout evaluation, despite important lingering uncertainties, creates the expectation that the economy will follow an upward trend, as compared to the recent past

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will address a regional conference on the economic development of the northern Aegean islands tomorrow in Lesvos

They slander, target, and convict a priori whomever they think is not in sync with their views and conceptions, on orders from the PM no less, as the government spokesman conceded.

In no democratic states are governments above being publicly checked by the press, whose job it is to investigate and publish affairs that are believed to harm the public interest.

Greece is now cheaper. It has a strong infrastructure. New technologies have been absorbed. Cost is largely under control. Competitiveness has been restored. The banking system, though still weak, is becoming more secure, and Greece has stabilised fiscally.

Angel Guria, the head of the Organisation of Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD), will present the outline of the “Economic Survey for Greece 2017” in Athens today.

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Eurogroup President Mario Centeno said that there was a productive discussion about Greece, which included the type of enhanced supervision that the European Commission has recommended for Athens.

In an interview with the Financial Times, Tsakalotos essentially conceded that Greece will be subjected to closer supervision than other countries that had been subjected to bailout memorandums

Moscovi said that the new fiscal supervision scheme must monitor the implementation of agreed upon reforms, but should not look like a fourth fiscal adjustment programme

Evaluation, excellence, and devotion to the common good are considered demerits and not advantages by our government. They declare this and implement it at every level.

'We want to apply every effort to ensure that the exit of Greece from the bailout is a clean one. And that there will not be any precautionary line,' Juncker said in comments translated into Greek after meeting Tsipras.

'I discerned a clear propensity and often insistence upon promoting actions without evaluation, without meritocracy, far from international standards, in order to serve personal agendas, and to establish full control by the General Secretariat.

“Certainly, on the question of the two soldiers, we understand how important this is for Greece. As the United States government, we have been fully engaged, and hope that these two soldiers will be able to return home very soon,” Pyatt said.

In a blistering attack on PM Alexis Tsipras’ right-hand man and Digital Policy Minister Nikos Pappas, the letter of resignation of Hellenic Space Agency (HSA) Chief Stamatis Krimizis accuses the government of a lack of transparency and meritocracy in running the new agency.

There was announced in advance, he charges, a programme for 11 microsatellites, with a 23.9 euro budget, without studies, without specifications, without a plan for constructing infrastructure, without a realistic timetable, and without suitable personnel to implement the project.

Kammenos said PM Alexis Tsipras and French president Emmanuel Macron have discussed collaboration on constructing frigates in Greece with the use of funds to be returned to Athens from profits on Greek bonds

A Turkish court has rejected the third request of two Greek army officers to be freed pending trial from a maximum security Turkish prison in Edirne.

Conditions at reception centres must be improved and the islands must not be used as warehouses of abandoned souls. Europe must be persuaded in every way possible to assume its responsibilities as well.

Hahn said that the solution about which he expressed optimism will open the way to EU accession talks with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.