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Greek banks have the knowledge and the means to deal with challenges, says Dimitris Liakos
Greek banks will need to face further challenges in the future, but they have both the knowledge and the means to deal with them, Deputy Minister to the Prime Minister, Dimitris Liakos, said in an interview with the Athens-Macedonian News Agency (ANA) on Monday.
Bank shares drop a result of speculative attack with political implications, says minister Nikos Pappas
“There was a speculative attack with political implications because some circles chose to remain silent,” Digital Policy Minister Nikos Pappas said on Friday in an interview with Real FM radio regarding the drop of the bank shares in the Athens Stock Exchange.
“None should play political games with the banks” says development minister Yiannis Dragasakis
Government Vice President and Development Minister Yiannis Dragasakis stressed on Thursday that nobody should play political games with the banks.
Labour minister Effie Achtsioglou announces new unemployment programmes worth 632.5 million
“The government’s plans include the introduction of 11 new programmes worth 632,500,000 euros in the first quarter of 2019 aimed at 88,500 unemployed people,” Labour Minister Effie Achtsioglou said on Thursday in an interview. According to the data presented, of the total, 31,500 positions will concern newly unemployed people.
Greece has a credible, stable economy and plays a strategic role in the region, says Nikos Pappas
Greece’s current global image is completely different from that of three years ago, Digital Policy, Communications and Media Minister Nikos Pappas said in New York on Wednesday night, with the world seeing a country stabilized economically and playing a critical and strategic role in the region.
Greece makes huge progress by returning to growth, says former US Treasury Secretary Lew
Greece has made huge progress by returning to economic growth, former U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew told state broadcaster ERT in an interview.
The government’s goal is to avoid pension cuts, says Digital policy minister Nikos Pappas
The government’s goal is to avoid pension cuts, Minister For Digital Policy, Telecommunications and Media Nikos Pappas said on Wednesday in an interview with the public broadcaster ERT.
Greece needs elections immediately, says Movement for Change president Fofi Gennimata
SYRIZA has no relation with the Centre-Left, stated the leader of the Movement for Change (KINAL) Fofi Gennimata in an interview with Real News on Sunday adding that the country “needs elections right now”.
We can’t build Attica’s fire stricken areas as they were before, Infrastructure minister Spirtzis says
Infrastructures and Transport Minister Christos Spirtzis in an interview with the Sunday newspaper Documento said that there are solutions for the problems the Attica fire-stricken are facing in the everyday life adding that “the most difficult is all the citizens to understand that we can’t build these areas in the way they were before, without […]
Interview of American Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross to air on ERT national television on Tuesday
Greece completed its fiscal adjustment program successfully, and the next step is for the economy to enter a trajectory of real growth, US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross says in an interview to national broadcaster ERT that will air between 10:00 and 12:00 noon on Tuesday, on the show “Apeftheias”.