Greece
Cyprus President Anastasiades in Athens on Friday to meet Prime Minister Tsipras
Government Spokesman Nicos Christodoulides on Monday announced that President Anastasiades will be travelling to Athens on Friday to meet with the Greek Premier Alexis Tsipras, ahead of the Geneva talks. Foreign Ministers of both countries, Ioannis Kasoulides and Nikos Kotzias, will also be present at the meeting.
Greece supports Cyprus solution without occupation troops or guarantees, Kotzias says
The government and political parties had agreed to support a “rational, effective and functional solution to the Cyprus issue, which means a Cyprus without foreign occupation troops, a Cyprus without guarantees,” Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias said on Friday, after a meeting of the National Council on Foreign Policy focusing on the Cyprus issue.
Greek PM and Turkish president may meet in early January, Cyprus spox says
NICOSIA (ANA/ A. Viketos) Greece’s Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras may have a meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the first week of January, before the international meeting in Geneva on January 9-12, Cyprus government spokesman Nikos Christodoulides said on Friday.
Mitsotakis: Prospect of elections frightens only the prime minister Tsipras
Nobody apart from the prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, was particularly worried by the prospect of an election in Greece, main opposition New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Friday.
2017 will be the year of the real economy, Prime Minister Tsipras said
The government’s goal was to conclude the second review by the end of January and then join the European Central Bank’s quantitative easing programme in March, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras repeated in an impromptu talks with the journalists covering Parliament on Wednesday.
Talks between Greece, institutions to continue but ‘heading toward solution,’ sources say
BRUSSELS (ANA/ C. Vasilaki) Greek authorities and the institutions will continue talks on Thursday in order to resolve the issue that has arisen with the suspension of short-term debt relief measures for Greece as soon as possible, European sources said on Wednesday.
Greece’s aim is to swiftly conclude the second review, Tzanakopoulos says
Government spokesman Dimitris Tzanakopoulos once again ruled out the prospect of early elections, even if a completion of the second review is delayed, during an interview to the Greek radio station “Parapolitika 90.1” on Monday. He equally dismissed the possibility of another referendum as “groundless speculation by journalists.”
Majority of Greeks say EU is ‘moving in the wrong direction,’ poll shows
Greeks are conflicted about the benefits of European Union membership and a very substantial majority is unhappy with direction the EU is going, according to the results of a nationwide survey released by Palmos Analysis on Sunday. The survey was commissioned by ruling SYRIZA’s group in the European Parliament.
Voutsis: EU-IMF disagreement ‘an attempt to crush Greece between the elephants’
Citing a phrase used by Greece’s Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos, Greek Parliament President Nikos Voutsis commented on the dispute between the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and European Union institutions over the Greek programme, saying it was an attempt, led by Germany’s Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble and the Dutch in Europe and Poul Thomsen in the […]
Dombrovskis: Completing second review in early 2017 is possible if all sides are constructive
The second review of Greece’s programme can be completed in early 2017 if all sides show “good will and cooperation”, European Commission Vice-President and Commissioner for the Euro and Social Dialogue Valdis Dombrovskis said in an interview with the Greek newspaper “Kathimerini” published on Sunday.