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The bulletin stresses the upgrades of Greece’s credit rating by the agencies, the significant increase in investments that was the motive force for a 1.4 percent increase of GDP in 2017, and the high primary surplus, which reached 3.7 percent of GDP.

'With the completion of the current transaction, Eurobank fulfils well ahead of time its commitment towards the European Commission for the reduction of its foreign presence,' the Eurobank Group said in a statement

The PPC will be able to provide natural gas through a Transportation System or a Distribution Network, but also independently of such a system or network.

Handelsblatt reports that Tsipras wants to link the bailout exit to debt relief, in part for domestic political reasons, and to stem the tide of dissatisfaction over all his broken promises since coming to power in 2015.

At a time when our relations with Turkey of the one-man rule of Erdogan are at an exceptionally delicate point, there are those who have taken to provoking, at no cost to themselves, impervious to the consequences of their deeds or words.

Corruption prosecutor Eleni Touloupaki (photo) has ordered the opening of bank accounts, bank safety deposit boxes, and stock holdings for all 10 politicians being probed by parliament for possible implication in the Novartis scandal.

The proposals submitted by the ESM and France include extending the maturity of loans, setting a maximum interest rate, and debt relief linked to economic growth, Handelsblatt reports.

The government has tabled a draft law to create a state-owned company that will undertake an ambitious urban renewal plan to revitalise central Athens.

Unfortunately for the prime minister, the ineffectiveness of his government has been proven, at many levels. That includes the economic front, where the government is constantly rushing to complete outstanding tasks, usually with a very heavy cost, but also the front of national, foreign policy issues.

“The verbal crescendos from Ankara are a sign of weakness. Turkey does not want to make war in the Aegean, because it knows it cannot win it,” he declared.

Of the 1,773 auctions of foreclosed properties to date, 340, or about one in five, have been suspended, upon the initiative of debtors to reach a repayment arrangement.

The discussion of Greek-Turkish relations comes amidst a harsh war of words between Ankara and Athens, with each side referring to the other’s military defeats in Greek-Turkish military confrontations historically, and with no end in sight to the captivity in a Turkish prison of two Greek army officers.

Mr. Kammenos, with no sense of his role and responsibility, after disagreeing on the FYROM naming issue, is now fashioning his own, personal line on the country’s other major front: Greek-Turkish relations

The increase of property values for tax purposes in 60 percent of the property zones nationwide will bring a domino effect, not just in terms of increasing the ENFIA real estate tax, but it will also affect tax-free levels for real estate transactions, and will limit the number of recipients of social benefits.

The only way for Greece to get back on its feet and transcend the economic crisis is debt relief, according to an article in the German financial daily Handelsblatt.

If he [Erdogan] wishes to be the leader of a well-governed state, he must explain why Turkey continues to hold in prison two Greek army officers who did nothing more than cross the border a few metres into Turkish territory.

Dressed in military fatigues, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan compared the eight Turkish military officers seeking asylum in Greece with the two Greek army officers being held hostage without charges in a top security prison in Edirne. He said that just as Tsipras, despite his promises [Erdogan says Tsipras promised to return them in two […]

Tsipras learned that he has to find more skeletons in the closet and widen his scandal-mongering. His associates say he intends to probe parties’ financing and corrupt bankers.

Everyone and everything are thrown into the same bag – politicians, businessmen, journalists, newspapers, and whoever has something different to say – and are being targeted, castigated and derided, in order to justify the divisive “Either us or them”.

"We have recorded in detail what agree and disagree on. We have identified the main issues for both sides, and I hope that at our next meeting we will be ready to take a big step,” Nikos Kotzias said.