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Critics charge that large amounts from the fund have been absorbed by wealthy member-states able to fund their own investment, rather than by struggling economies of the south.

The government has insisted that the end of the current programme in August will mark the end of Greece’s subjection to bailout memorandums, though fiscal discipline will be constant.

Tusk’s homeland of Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic –the so-called Visegrad countries - are among those which have refused to shoulder their share of the refugee burden.

Opposition parties, led by New Democracy, have staunchly criticised the government’s exceeding surplus targets, which they say comes from bilking the middle class with overtaxation.

An IMF statement on 20 July stressed the debt relief issue and its linkage to continued involvement of the fund in the Greek programme.

With international criticism mounting over the horrid conditions at camps for migrants,13 Greek mayors gathered for a brainstorming at a UNHCR-sponsored conference.

Athens until now has insisted that debt relief talks will commence straight on the heels of the formal political approval of the staff-level evaluation reached with creditors, at the first Eurogroup meeting of 2018, on 22 January.

ECB President Mario Draghi told Deutsche Welle that is up to the Greek government to decide whether it needs a fourth programme.

Bad loans account for a whopping 47 percent of all loans issued by Greek private banks, which is the highest percentage among all European Union member-states.

“It is possible that in the view of the majority of respondents, the coexistence of more political parties in a government serves to offset the weaknesses of “obsolescent political parties,” the researchers concluded.

We may not have the massive protests and demonstrations of the past, but disappointment is the predominant sense in society.

Conservative New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis is poised to staunchly criticise European Council President Donald Tusk at tomorrow’s European People’s Party in Brussels, after the Council President derided the EU’s refugee burden-sharing deal among member-states. A New Democracy statement says that Mitsotakis will express his “radical disagreement” with Tusk’s position because it violates the principles […]

Greek European Parliament deputies as well as various parliamentary groups are up in arms over a paper sent by European Council President Donald Tusk to all EU leaders, calling into question the refugee burden sharing scheme.

Russian national Alexander Vinnik, indicted in the US over a $4 billion bitcoin money laundering case, will be extradited to the US after the Greek Supreme Court upheld an appellate court ruling, unless the justice minister blocks it.

The survey gives New Democracy 30 percent of the vote, followed by Syriza with 21.3 percent.

“The first clash over the Aegean islands was the Imia crisis, and Turkey at that time clearly demonstrated its position on this issue,” the Turkish prime minister said.

Past efforts to enforce any type of performance evaluation of civil servants have met with fierce resistance from public sector trade unionists.

The cost of construction of the Danube-Morava-Axios canal with Thessaloniki as the final destination, is estimated at about 17 billion US dollars.

Already over one million citizens have had assets seized and another 700,000 are waiting their turn, as banks and tax offices have an enormous backlog of seizures.

The postponement concerns only auctions of properties foreclosed by banks, the Greek public sector, municipalities, and insurance funds.