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'We agreed to work together toward the shared goals and completing reforms, and securing debt relief from Greece’s European partners.'

Daskalio was covered almost exclusively with unique monumental structures, with stone brought from the island of Naxos, giving the impression of a grand, unified monument arising from the sea.

The two leaders reviewed details of bilateral agreements, and on the eve of the meeting Rama said he expects that all bilateral problems with Greece will be resolved by springtime.

When Tsipras had visited Lagarde in October, both underscored the necessity of debt relief as a precondition for returning successfully to the markets and achieving viable development.

If the current leadership in our neighbouring country means what it says publicly, Greece has every interest in continuing to press to definitively resolve a problem that has weighed upon us for the last 25years.

Tsipras said that grappling with the irredentism issue comes before the name, and he stressed that there "must be no open window that would allow new [irredentist] provocations in the future".

“Mr. Mitsotakis proved, once again, that he has handed over the keys of New Democracy to the extreme-right current of the main opposition party,” the Syriza response to Mitsotakis' speech to his party's political committee stated.

“As things have turned out, a solution must be sought at some other time,” Mitsotakis declared.

The municipal and prefectural elections are currently scheduled to be held in tandem with European Parliament elections, which have less of a political weight for parties than the nationwide local elections.

If a new request with fresh evidence against the eight is filed, the case will be reviewed by the Council of Appellate Judges, and may well end up in the Greek Supreme Court once again.

Just one week after the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia’s negotiator, Ambassador to Washington Vasko Naumovski, trashed the proposals tabled by UN Special Representative for the name talks, Matthew Nimetz, as undignified, he will no longer be the negotiator for Fyrom, according to the Skopje news site Telma. The report, based on FYROM foreign ministry […]

Moreover, if the Greek debt is restructured, as creditors have promised, then the lenders will employ a stricter oversight regime and will be frequent visitors to Athens.

The global economic, political, and business elite is gathering these days in Davos, Switzerland, to discuss the present and future of the world economy, in a climate of general optimism. The economic crisis seems a thing of the past. The global economy is growing at faster rates than projected, even a few months ago, and […]

Kontonis stressed that the extradition ban handed down for the eight by the Greek Supreme Court is absolute. He underlined that the high court did not review the facts of the case, but only whether the officers would have a fair trial in Turkey.

Now, US Ambassador to Athens Geoffrey Pyatt has expressed the view that now an ideal time to tackle the thorny issue and resolve the name problem.

According to the compliance report by creditors which was leaked yesterday, Athens must go forward with 10,000 auctions of seized properties this year, and another 40,000 between 2019 and 2021.

The Eurogroup also called on the government to devise a comprehensive growth strategy well before the end of the programme in August.

The government, instead of shaping a minimum national consensus, chose to divide the opposition, disregarding the repercussions, which it is reaping now.

Nimetz hopes that both sides might cherry pick the hopefully not conflicting elements of his proposals so as to allow FYROM’s accession to Nato at the Alliance’s July summit.

Just last week, former New Democracy leader and ex-parliament speaker Evangelos Meimarakis lunched with Bank of Greece Governor Yannis Stournaras, and recalled the battles they had waged to keep the Greek economy on track. Despite his urgent warnings not to veer away from the bailout reform programme, Stournaras says that he is almost certain that […]