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Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras discussed migration issues with the European Union’s Migration Commisioner, Dimitris Avramopoulos, in Athens today.

It is one thing to engage in political name-calling and to use sharp rhetoric, yet, it is another thing to characterise someone as a “man on trial”, thus associating him with criminal acts, while at the same time charging others with maintaining ties with a criminal.

The IMF appears ready and willing to stay on board with the Greek programme on condition that there is a viable debt relief agreement with Greece’s creditors, but as far as reports that the IMF is demanding the speeding up of various specific fiscal measures, the fund asserts that this a matter being addressed in […]

Today's negotiations, based on the two sides’ proposals, will entail an exhaustive treatment of all of the details of a settlement, and it is hoped that the progress will be such as to push the entire process into the final stretch.

The only course of action that the Greek side has is to mobilise all its diplomatic forces, and request the substantive – and not merely verbal – support of its allies in Europe, Nato, and elsewhere.

The delimitations of the two countries’ Exclusive Economic Zones, property issues pertaining to the Greek minority in Albania, and the war cemetery for Greeks who fell in the war of 1940 are among the issues under discussion.

“Central Macedonia, and Thessaloniki in particular, which is pursuing a role as a pillar of development, will have only benefits from a settlement with our northern neighbours,” Tsipras said.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan very quickly dismissed EU pressures, digging in his heels on Turkish demands against Greece and Cyprus regarding territory and natural resources that have been a staple of Turkish foreign policy for decades.

Undoubtedly MP Katsikis was well aware that such an exchange would crudely trample on the rule of law in Greece, as it was the Supreme Court that issued an irrevocable ruling barring extradition of the eight Turkish officers.

Citizens, especially the youth, see and experience that meritocracy is not among the virtues of cadres of the ruling party. What is paramount is feathering their nest.

An American official noted that after the neutralisation of the Islamic State, the theatre of operations is very limited and fuzzy, and as a result the area has become congested with aircraft and ships.

The controversial Aegean Marine Petroleum Network (AMPN) takeover of a company owned by founder Dimitris Melissanidis has been terminated.

All parties agree that the constitutionally-based “law on ministerial responsibility”, which establishes an extremely truncated statute of limitation for crimes that ministers commit while in office, and which essentially lets the culprits of the hook in most cases, should be scrapped.

Today’s exercise, approved by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, is clearly designed to signal to Ankara the Greek military’s readiness for any provocation and challenge

Erdogan indirectly linked the case to that of eight Turkish army officers whose extradition from Greece Ankara has repeatedly demanded, but which has been definitively blocked by the Greek Supreme Court on the grounds that they are not guaranteed a fair trial in Turkey

No one doubts that there is truly a problem with stray animals. Yet, it requires cultivation, common sense, and the shaping of a mentality of love for animals to at least limit it.

Turkey’s state-run Anadolu Agency has reported that the officers have been charged with “attempted military espionage” by prosecutors, as well as “entering a forbidden military zone", but charges have yet to be formally filed after three weeks in jail.

While the EU-Turkey summit in Varna-Bulgaria was intended a step toward bridge the differences between Europe and a candidate country that has slid into authoritarianism, reports in the international press saw few results

The radical overhaul of the tax bureau’s assessment of property values across the country will bring the entire real estate market tospy-turvy, as there will be huge hikes in the valuation of cheaper properties in low income areas, which currently have a value of 550-700 euros per square metre.

Juncker stressed that it is necessary for Turkey to improve its relations with Greece and Cyprus, and he also asked Erdogan to re-examine his stance on releasing the two Greek army officers who were captured at the Greek-Turkish border.