Watsa told Bloomberg that once Eurobank's NPL problem is resolved, “You’ll have a very well capitalised bank in a very good position to serve the Greek clients as well as the Greek economy.”
State Minister Alekos Flamboraris [one of the PM’s most trusted advisors], Environment and Energy Minister Yorgos Stathakis, and Deputy Prime Minister and Economy Minister Yannis Dragasakis are believed to be implicated in the affair.
“Who are you with – the university students or the thugs? We are with the students and not with those occupying campus buildings. We stand for legality and normalcy,” ND leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis declared.
'This is about the dignity of pensioners and demonstrates the importance of having a government that is concerned about pensioners,' he declared.
Ieronymos found that many in the hierarchy of Metropolitan bishops were livid over the agreement, and they issued a communiqué stating that they will not accept priests being taken off the registry of civil servants.
A stormy, Marathon meeting of the entire hierarchy (79 Metropolitan bishops) flatly rejected the Tsipras - Ieronymos plan to take priests and lay employees of the Church off the Civil Service rolls but to pay them the same salaries
The government’s propaganda and its well-known mouthpieces have for some time been preparing the ground for scandal-mongering, with the use of all types of methods in order to annihilate politically those whom they consider enemies.
The links with the powerful of Europe did not impede him, despite the sermons against him, from continuing to loyally serve populist traditions
The government is sparring with Greece’s creditors over the pension cuts issue, as the line from Brussels is that Athens cannot at once scrap legislated pension cuts and implement all the anti-austerity measures that Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras announced at the September Thessaloniki International Fair, especially since revised divs on Greece’s growth rate in 2019 […]
'Mr. Tsipras’ beloved minister reached the point of making ‘little jokes’ even about the 99 dead people in Mati,' ND said in a statement.
'The problem of unemployment cannot be solved with civil service appointments, but rather through investments and good private sector jobs., New Democracy's leader said.
The group has drawn the negative attention and bewilderment of the international press, most recently in an 8 November report by The Economist, entitled “Licensed anarchy? How a group of Athens troublemakers goes unpunished”.
With the well-known method of robbing Peter to pay Paul, Mr. Tsipras is now playing in a new performance, with the announcement that he is planning the hiring of 10,000 more civil servants
The PM, as is his wont, is using the Constitutional revision as a tool, not in order to solve real problems, but ras a vehicle for opportunistic, vote-mongering interventions.
Noting that the understanding will allow the Church to gain a much greater degree of independence, Ieronymos profusely thanked the PM, asserting that if all is implemented as planned, he will go down in history as the leader who solved a problem that was intractable for decades.
Undoubtedly the healthcare sector was pillaged, especially during the care-free era of borrowed prosperity for the entire political system, including the left.
Varoufakis reiterated the claim in his book on his tenure as finance minister, Adults in the Room, that Soros in June, 2015, “picked up the phone to ask Tsipras to sack me”.
'He [Kammenos] spoke of secret funds. He also said that Soros is funding the government to buy off foreigners [to pass the Greece-FYROM Prespa Agreement],' ex-foreign minister Kotzias said in an interview.
'The delimitation of the Greek EEZ in its entirety will be determined based on international law, and certainly without taking into account the unfounded and arbitrary theories espoused by Turkey, which is a violator of international law,' the foreign ministry said in a statement.
Today, state minister and government spokesman Dimitris Tzanakopoulos declared in an interview with Real FM radio that the government has the parliamentary votes necessary to complete its four year term,