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Tusk calls on Turkey to stop aggression against Greece, Cyprus; warns over Varna meeting
European Council President Donald Tusk said EU leaders of member countries expressed solidarity with Greece and Cyprus after Turkey’s recent aggression in the Aegean and called on Turkey to end all actions against the two countries, noting EU leaders will assess the country’s stance to decide whether to hold a meeting with the Turkish leadership […]
Greece ready to go it alone, wants a ‘clean exit’, FinMin Tsakalotos says
Greece is ready to venture forth on its own without support, while it wants the “cleanest possible” exit from the financial assistance programme when this ends in the summer, Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos said in interviews to the French newspaper “Les Echos” and the “Financial Times” this weekend.
Gov’t’s success in absorbing EU funds ‘indisputable’, economy and development ministry says
The government’s successes in the absorption of European funds are “indisputable” and have been praised by all European institutions and officials, the Greek economy and development ministry noted in an announcement on Sunday, issued in response to coverage by a private television channel.
PM Tsipras at Davos: Migration issue an international one, calling for common policy
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said on Wednesday at Davos that the migration problem is a European and international problem and not a problem of Italy and Greece alone.
Greece is turning page, says EU Commission spokesman Margaritis Schinas
Greece is turning page and EU-Greece’s trust issue was built mostly by the Greek people and their sacrifices in the last years, stated European Commission spokesman Margaritis Schinas speaking to television ‘E’ on Sunday.
Tsipras: Tusk’s proposal on refugee quotas is ‘unfortunate, untimely and unnecessary’
The proposal by European Council President Donald Tusk to scrap mandatory quotas on relocating asylum seekers across the European Union is “unfortunate, untimely and unnecessary”, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said in an interview with state TV channel ERT3, broadcasted on Wednesday.
Economic adjustment programmes achieved only ‘limited’ Greek recovery, report says
The economic adjustment programmes agreed for Greece after the financial crisis broke out failed to bring about its full recovery, despite providing short-term financial stability and making some progress on reform possible, according to a new report from the European Court of Auditors released on Thursday.
President Prokopis Pavlopoulos underlines need for strong Europe
Greece’s President Prokopios Pavlopoulos on Friday underlined the need for a strong, united Europe – with institutional and political cohesion for the European structure as a whole – while speaking at the 4th Congress of Athens at the Onassis Cultural Centre.
Gov’t spokesman Tzanakopoulos rules out possibility of a 4th Greek programme
State Minister and government spokesman Dimitris Tzanakopoulos on Thursday ruled out the possibility of a fourth programme for Greece, when the current programme comes to an end in August 2018.
Selling Cyprus… A passport at a time: The island should NOT be for sale
By Nicolas Nicolaou The Citizenship-By-Investment program enacted by Cyprus isperfectly legal and many countries enact similar programstoattract foreign capital. The Cyprus government did the right thing in enacting such a program to help with the economic recovery. The problem however, is in some of the program details and in how the program is executed. In […]