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The protest was intended as a resounding message to the government that it does not have a blank check in negotiating the terms of a settlement with Skopje

Citizens faced all types of trials all these years. They lost jobs, income, powers and capabilities. At first they were startled and shaken, and thereafter they reacted.

'Yet, you too must recognise that we are right when, based on that name, you distribute maps of Macedonia of the Aegean , which reaches down to Olympus, when you claim that we Greeks are conquerors of our own second capital, Greek Thessaloniki, etc., thus challenging the very territorial integrity of our country.'

Defending the government’s management of the fiscal adjustment programme, Houliarakis said that the bailout memorandums were necessary, and that without them, fiscal adjustment would have been more violent, while bankruptcy and Grexit would have been certain.

The reported price is 120 million euros, which includes the internal borrowing that the Telecommunications Authority of Cyprus provided to Cyta, payment of procurers, and equity.

The parliamentary question lists all the statements by cabinet ministers and ruling claition MPs that attack particular judges or the justice system more generally.

It is beyond any sense of democratic practice for a prime minister, after being apprised of the situation by the foreign minister, to visit the archbishop and to brief him, while completely ignoring opposition leaders.

A statue of a red angel with wings spread and perched upon the column, the work of internationally renowned painter and sculptor Kostis Georgiou, was toppled by fascist Golden Dawn members, as Palaio Faliro Dionysis Hatzidakis claimed. The mayor said that a group of about 15 hooded individuals toppled the statue, which the sculptor has […]

The proposal provides for a Slavic spelling of the country’s language, either “makedonski” or a more descriptive version, official language of the Republic of New Macedonia.

The further reduction of the ELA will depend on the return of deposits and on the efforts to return to the markets with new bond issues.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras attacked “political forces that do not want to see the government attaining its goals”, an apparent reference to main opposition New Democracy.

“I view this as a good set of ideas, a compromise and a package that both sides should feel comfortable with and lead to a dignifying and satisfying solution,” the UN mediator concluded

January, as everyone knows, is the month of football club transfers, as teams attempt to cover their needs in terms of human resources. It appears, however, that political parties have envied the transfers trade, and as a result, the transfer of second rank political players is now a reality. After all, it has been some […]

Today, the Prime Minister received Megaloeconomou in his office, and depicted the political transfer as an emerging alliance with centrist forces.

The Greek Defence Ministry stated that the Greek gunboat, which was conducting a scheduled patrol in the area, suffered no damage.

Long-term prospects of Greek banks remain extremely uncertain, as they depend on the sustainable recovery of the Greek economy as well as on the management of non-performing loans.

In what has been touted as a last chance to resolve the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) naming issue, UN special representative Matthew Nimetz will present his proposal for a settlement to the ambassadors of Greece and FYROM, Adamantios Vasilakis and Vasko Naumovski. On the eve of the crucial talks, Nimetz underlined that the […]

If the other side means what its current leadership says, and if it is truly prepared to accept a compound name and abandon irredentist aspirations, it would be tragic if certain politicians for reasons of self-interest were to undermine and scuttle an agreement.

Until recently, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and his government have touted a “clean exit” from bailout supervision, without the strings that would be attached to a European credit line.

“We are here to inaugurate a very important trilateral cooperation with a very important regional country,’ Tsipras said of the developing strategic partnership with Jordan.