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Travel receipts down in 2016, despite more tourist arrivals, central bank report says
Travel receipts in 2016 totalled 13.207 billion euros, or 6.5 pct lower than the previous year, in spite of 7.5 pct increase in tourist arrivals, according to a Bank of Greece report on the travel services’ balance in 2016.
Tsipras to Steinmeier: Art is a bridge that can unite the Greek and German people
Receiving visiting German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier at the Maximos Mansion in Athens on Friday, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras greeted him as a politician that is fighting for Europe’s unity and a good friend of Greece.
Greek and German Presidents, Pavlopoulos and Steinmeier inaugurate Documenta 14
Documenta 14 Exhibition entitled “Learning from Athens” was inaugurated on Saturday at the National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST), in Athens, by the Greek President Prokopios Pavlopoulos and the President of the Federal Republic of Germany Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
Chancellor Merkel will intervene, estimated government’s top official
A government’s top official estimated that German Chancellor Merkel at some point will intervene because she would not want to go to elections with the Greek issue pending.
A legal view of Germany’s wartime occupation loan
The unlawful taking of property is considered ‘conversion,’ a civil wrong whose remedy is restitution, as opposed to reparations By: Nicholas G. Karambelas, Esq.*
We cannot abandon Greece now, Chancellor Merkel says
“We simply cannot abandon Greece now,” German Chancellor Angela Merkel said late on Sunday, in an interview with German television network ARD.
German-born historian: I hope that the road leading to German WWII reparations will open
German-born professor of history Hagen Fleischer expressed the hope that the road of German World War II (WWII) reparations to Greece will open, but also expressed his concern about the refugee problem of Europe. He did this in a public lecture in Ioannina. Fleischer has studied extensively the historical events of WWII.
Spokeswoman Gerovassili reacts to Schaeuble’s comments
“Someone must remind (German Finance Minister Wolfgang) Schaeuble that Greece is giving a huge battle of humanism at the EU borders, even in conditions of economic and social crisis after five years of continuous austerity,” government spokeswoman Olga Gerovassili said on Monday.
‘We do not want to weaken Greece, we want to strengthen it,’ Roth says
“Germany has a central role, but not an hegemonic role in Europe,” German Deputy Foreign Minister for European Affairs Michael Roth said in an interview with ANA-MPA.
Pavlopoulos: Claim for German reparations can be pursued in court
President of Republic Prokopis Pavlopoulos said that judicial procedures on the German reparations are totally legal, in his address on Sunday at the city hall of Lamia before being declared honorary citizen of the town.