International

In August, 2016, however, it was announced that Melissanidis was leaving the company, selling 22 percent of the stock in his portfolio, for 99 million dollars, to the company. It now appears that the departure was temporary.

Military and diplomatic moves, Erdogan’s speeches and statements as well as those of other top Turkish officials, are being studied minutely by Western embassies in both Athens and Ankara, as well as by the competent directorates of Nato.

By all appearances, Turkish demands in the Aegean and Cyprus will grow stronger. American and European diplomacy have warned about this.

“The foreign minister of Cyprus yesterday underlined that artificial tension must not be created in the region. This is what Erdogan wants, in order to cancel the oil and gas exploration in Cyprus’ EEZ,” the former minister said.

Regarding taxis, the bill is in line with a European Court ruling that services such as those provided by Uber constitute transport work. It also attempts to regulate more broadly internet-based taxi services.

With the Greek NOTAM, number A0585/18, the Air Force and the Navy are tying up areas over the entire breadth of the Aegean and east of the island of Crete, for live fire exercises during various periods between 6 March and the end of April.

The ND proposal accused former health minister Panagiotis Kouroumplis of breach of trust for not issuing the annual drug pricing list in 2015. New Democracy also charged Health Minister Andreas Xanthos and Pavlos Polakis with breach of trust over the ministry’s pricing list in 2016.

That the case was sent to the Turkish judiciary is a clear indication that the final decision will be made by the Turkish president, as its independence, as has been proven so many times, is non-existent.

'What we are telling the Greeks and the Greek government is that they should remember that the glorious, red Turkish flag, with the crescent moon, was waving over their territories not so long ago. With the help of God, that flag that they burned and insulted will wave over Athens once again'

The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in December 2017 was 20.8%, compared to 23.4% in December, 2016, and the upward revised 21.0% in November 2017,” according to the Hellenic Statistical Authority’s Labour Force Survey, released today.

Based on available data, one in three clients with overdue loans seeks to make an arrangement with the bank for repayment, suggesting auctions are serving as a lever of pressure for those who were able to pay and strategically did not

“We are drafting a comprehensive, long-term development plan, fit to bring our country back into the globalised environment on a competitive footing. Based on our comparative advantages, we are setting priorities on the local and sectoral levels, in order to create a new productive identity,” the PM said.

Its share price has tumbled since the beginning of the year, losing nearly half its value, and nearly 80 percent of its value since the beginning of 2017. The huge drop is attributed to continuing concerns about corporate governance and management, due to extensive transactions with Melissanidis and other related parties, and due to particularly loss-making investments.

Security is not left-wing or right-wing, but rather a universal social good, which the state has a duty and responsibility to protect. That the prime minister recognises this is positive, to the degree that it will lead to action, and is not yet another diversionary tactic to transcend the current confluence of events.

The continuing captivity of two Greek army officers in a Turkish prison in the city of Edirne was the focus of a meeting between the Greek Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Evangelos Apostolakis, and US Ambassador to Athens Geoffrey Pyatt.

The US and Israeli forces will be conducting population evacuation manoeuvres, but their presence is seen as a strong message to Turkey, which went as far as warning US forces not to enter the region, and now says there will be repercussions if Ankara’s rights are violated.

The extra-judicial payback of loans by businesses and freelance professionals will now apply to debts of under 20,000 euros, whereas until now only those who owed between 20,000 and 50,000 were eligible.

Miranda Xafa, a former representative of Greece to the IMF, argues that European creditors’ monitoring of Greece will remain tight following the completion of the current fiscal adjustment programme in August, and expresses support for a post-bailout precautionary credit line.

The Turkish foreign ministry in a statement today took two phrases, which it placed in separate quotes, from a speech of President Prokopis Pavlopoulos in order to speciously suggest that he harbours irredentist sentiments.

Today, Turkey has an unpredictable leadership that is inspired by neo-Ottoman expansionism, and resorts to methods and practices that have little to do with states that operate under the rule of law.