“The draft law on primary residence protection will be tabled either late on Friday night
Labour, Social Insurance and Social Solidarity Minister Efi Achtsioglou announced on Monday an increase to the basic wage as of January, in comments to ANT1 television.
The telephone conversation between the prime ministers of Greece Alexis Tsipras and FYROM Zoran Zaev earlier on Monday is a decisive step towards a resolution of the name issue, Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias told Kontra TV on the same evening.
Greek and FYROM’s Foreign Ministers made significant progress, however the negotiations are not concluded, on the contrary they are at the most crucial turning point, said a high Greek government official on Monday on FYROM name issue negotiations.
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is due to visit President of the Republic Prokopios Pavlopoulos at the presidential mansion at 9:30 on Saturday morning, in order to brief him on developments in the negotiations for a solution to the FYROM name issue.
“Talks are going very well and we are heading in the direction of closing the staff level agreement,” said a government official after the completion of talks with lenders on Thursday.
Following a short break in the middle of the day, the Greek government and the heads of the institutions’ mission in Athens resumed negotiations on completing the second review on Sunday afternoon.
Endy Zemenides Executive Director, Hellenic American Leadership Council Over the past two months the Republic of Cyprus has hosted a parade of foreign leaders — German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, and Secretary of State John Kerry — each declaring support for reunification negotiations that will […]
By Aris Petasis The current negotiations on the Cyprus problem were initiated by three foreign governments for their own benefit and not out of concern for the democratic rights of the people of Cyprus (Greek and Turkish Cypriots–G/T-C) Negotiations were kick-started by the British and the Americans, with help from Turkey, (the three are referred […]