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The paramount issue, however, is that of the protected witnesses. As was revealed yesterday, they had not been designated as witnesses in the public interest, up until the time that the file was sent to parliament.

Regarding Turkey’s recent hostile actions, Tsipras said that respect for international law in the Aegean and the Mediterranean is a precondition for the advancement of EU-Turkey relations.

'By the end of April, we shall present our own strategic development plan, which will put forward the basic priorities required for us to move ahead, which is very important for the government,' the financed minister said

The bill will transfer 67 percent of the port from the state to the Thessaloniki Port Authority

Corruption Prosecutor Eleni Touloupaki is bearing a heavy weight on her shoulders of late, due to her handling of the Novartis kickbacks scandal. In a lawsuit filed by former prime minister Antonis Samaras, Touloupaki, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, and Alternate Justice Minister Dimitris Papangelopoulos have all been accused of abuse of power and of establishing […]

A key is the transition to the use of the new name by all and the amendments to the FYROM Constitution that Athens is demanding in order to eradicate irredentist elements.

In the midst of the storm, many of our fellow citizens did not resign themselves to their fate, but rather took their lives into their own hands and changed course.

Video shot from the Hellenic Coast Guard patrol boat “Gavdos” proves that the Turkish Coast Guard ship was rushing to ram it in the centre, which would have sunk the aluminum flagship of the Hellenic Coast Guard and imperiled the lives of its 27-member crew.

Nederlandse Gasunie in a surprise, move on the eve of the deadline for submitting binding offers for a 66 percent stake in the Hellenic Gas Transmission System Operator, decided to pull out of the tender, government sources said.

If the Bank of Greece, and by extension the European Central Bank under which it operates, grants approval, the finance ministry plans to raise the monthly withdrawal limit from a single bank account from 1,800 to 2,300 euros.

Kotzias announced that academic studies which prove that Turkey is in possession of rock islets that do not belong to her will be published

ExxonMobil has hastened to arrange for two offshore oil and gas exploration ships to Cyprus at the end of this month. The company’s decision comes straight on the heels of ENI’s debacle.

In a televised statement, Samaras said that the sitting prime minister is responsible for “setting up a miserable plot” that is “so poorly designed that it collapses without further ado”, and that the “it is patently obvious that the allegations are slanderous”.

The main opposition leader declared that the testimony against 10 former ministers and PMs is manufactured and unsubstantiated, and he demanded that the protected witnesses be cross-examined in parliament, with their identities concealed, by the politicians against whom they unleashed their allegations.

Fresh hydrocarbons discoveries in yet another of Cyprus’ EEZ blocks have raised the stakes even higher from the point of view of Ankara, which insists that the Turkish occupation regime in northern Cyprus must co-administer energy exploration, though the breakaway state there is recognised only by Ankara.

Athens is attempting. as Kotzias has intimated, to hammer out a formula for an ironclad international agreement – which would supersede FYROM’s constitution and national law - that would eradicate all remaining vestiges of irredentism.

The Greek government is also expecting Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim’s scheduled meeting with Chancellor Angela Merkel in Germany today to be an opportunity for Berlin to stress the European Union’s consternation over Ankara intensely hostile behaviour towards member-states Cyprus and Greece.

Neither the years of the crisis, with the accumulated burdens that they piled upon society and the political system, nor previous ills that we have suffered, have become a lesson to us.

Kammenos said that the issue “did not reach the Nato Council of Ministers”, as he wanted to first conduct bilateral briefings and provide evidence of Ankara’s actions to other Nato allies, apparently to galvanise support for Greece’s complaint.

"U.S. Ambassador to the Hellenic Republic Geoffrey R. Pyatt is traveling to Ankara from 15 – 16 February 2018 for consultations with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Wess Mitchell and several of his regional counterparts to discuss a range of topics," read a US Embassy Athens press release issued today.