Interview
Higher minimum wage will be implemented without any age criteria, says minister Effie Achtsioglou
The new higher minimum wage will be implemented without age criteria, Labour Minister Effie Achtsioglou said on Sunday in an interview with ‘Avgi’ newspaper.
“We have enough fiscal space to provide with social measures”, states spokesman Tzanakopouos
The cycle of cuts has closed and the government has now room to increase the available income without threatening fiscal targets, government spokesman Dimitris Tzanakopoulos said on Friday in an interview with ‘Sto Kokkino’ radio station.
“Like earthquakes, we need to protect ourselves from wildfires” says academic Christos Zerefos
The country must protect itself from fires just as it protects itself from earthquakes, academic Christos Zerefos told Athens Macedonian News Agency in an interview, who warned that in coming decades Greece will have an additional 40 days of wildfires.
Yiannis Dragasakis: Greece needs a broad progressive alliance of forces to take it forward
“The next five years will be crucial. We must promptly make use of this opportunity to reorganise the country, to make the necessary changes and solve perennial problems, putting the future on a firm footing so that we never again find ourselves in the same position as in 2010,” government Vice-President and Economy and Development […]
Edi Rama announces forthcoming strategic partnership deal between Albania and Greece
Greece and Albania will conclude their agreement “with a new document of strategic partnership,” Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama told the Athens-Macedonia News Agency (ANA) on the sidelines of the EU-Western Balkans Summit concluding in London on Tuesday.
“A period of good news lies ahead for the Greek economy” says Tsipras in Bloomberg interview
The upcoming period will be one of very good news for Greece’s economy, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras predicted in an interview with Bloomberg on Wednesday. He stressed that in the last three years, Greece has on all fronts become part of the solution, not the problem.
United Arab Emirates ambassador to Greece defends Arab League offensive to Hodeidah
“The Arab League is conducting a humanitarian operation for the city of Al Hodeidah in order to respond to any humanitarian needs,” the Ambassador of the United Arab Emirates to Greece, Mohammed Mir Al Raisi, said in an interview with the Athens-Macedonian News Agency (ANA), referring to the Arab League military operations against the Houthi […]
Kyriakos Mitsotakis interviewed: ND restores contact with society, builds mass popular base
Main opposition New Democracy (ND) leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis referred to his party’s internal elections on Sunday, in an article published in the “Philelephteros” newspaper on Friday.
Government spokesman: Greece returns to the markets, exits programme by August 2018
Government spokesman Dimitris Tzanakopoulos reiterated the government’s priorities on Friday in an interview with Alpha TV, saying its goal was to complete the Greek programme in August 2018 and return to the markets, having secured the best possible agreements on debt and post-programme surveillance.