Greece
Juncker to Tsipras: ‘You’re doing a good job with the refugee crisis’
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker expressed to Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras his satisfaction for the “significant Greek efforts” in fulfilling g the country’s commitments towards the EU on the refugee issue during their meeting in Brussels on Wednesday afternoon, European sources said.
Lebanon, Greece and Cyprus hold trilateral ministerial summit in Brussels
Supporting Lebanon, fighting terrorism and the migration crisis were among the issues discussed in an extraordinary trilateral summit between Lebanon Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil, his Greek counterpart Nikos Kotzias and Foreign Minister of Cyprus Ioannis Kasoulides, who hosted the summit.
Santorini emerges as one of the world’s top tourism destinations
With two million visitors arriving each year – or nearly 10 pct of the total number of tourist arrivals for the whole country – as well as frequent first-place rankings in surveys of favourite holiday destinations, the Greek island of Santorini has emerged as one of the top tourism destinations worldwide.
Tsipras’ meeting with farmers will be held in ” terms of representativeness”
The government will await all the farmers’ demands to be submitted in order to arrange a meeting with Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras “in terms of representativeness”, Agriculture Minister Evangelos Apostolou said on Monday in statements outside the Parliament.
After weekend respite farmers return to road blocks next week
Greek farmers participating in the roadblock at Tempi Valley in central-northern Greece closed the motorway again at noon on Sunday, saying their action will continue indefinitely, while more groups of protesters announced new action for next week.
Migration minister slams EU for delaying relocation at Lesvos refugee conference
Alternate Minister for Migration Policy Yiannis Mouzalas criticized the stance of the European Union on Saturday saying that relocation is increasingly ignored and Greece is being made into a ‘scapegoat’ for the slow progress made in managing the refugee flows.
Tsipras: ‘Open fronts will soon close and Greece will turn a page’
Greece will soon overcome its three most pressing problems – the first review of its economic program, the refugee crisis and the debt issue – and will turn a new page, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras told Avghi newspaper in an interview published on Sunday.
Commissioner Avramopoulos: “Greece has been out of Dublin since 2011, it’s time to change it”
Greece has been out of Dublin since 2011. It’s time to change that,” EU Commissioner for Migration Dimitris Avramopoulos said on Wednesday adding that this does not mean transfer of people back to Greece.
Greece needs to be more specific on pension reforms, Dijsselbloem says
Greece needs to be more specific over the planned pension reforms and the additional fiscal measures to be taken, Eurogroup head Jeroen Dijsselbloem on Tuesday said in a letter to the Dutch parliament.
Greek PM, Iranian VP confirm intention to upgrade bilateral cooperation
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and the first Iranian Vice-President Eshaq Jahangiri on Monday confirmed their governments’ intention to upgrade cooperation between the two countries.