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Tsipras Calls for Joint Talks With Germany, France During Summit
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has called for joint talks with top European Officials during Thursday's European Union Summit in Brussels.
The Greek leader has asked to talk with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Francois Hollande, European Central Bank President...
Economy
Greek 2014 Primary Surplus Revised Lower
Greece ’s primary budget surplus was revised downwards to 0.3 pct of GDP in 2014, from a budget target for a surplus of 1.5 pct of GDP, according to the government’s Economic Policy Program (EPP), a Greek finance ministry...
Economy
Greek Energy Minister Announces Lower Natural Gas Rates
Greek Productive Reconstruction, Environment & Energy Minister Panagiotis Lafazanis on Monday addressed the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Production and Trade and referring to the raise of the special duty for the reduction of gas emissions (ETMEAR) blamed the Regulatory...
Diaspora
Supreme Court Judge Calls Same-Sex Union Groundless
Supreme Court judge Charalambos Machairas said unions between same-sex couples are groundless, in a decision addressed to the court’s political department on Monday.
The judge said the Supreme Court should sustain a previous ruling by an appeals court nullifying the...
Greece
Greek Defense Min: Gov't Won't Step Back on Claims for German War Reparation and Occupation Loan
Greek Defense Minister and Independent Greeks (ANEL) leader Panos Kammenos, speaking late Monday to private Star TV, attributed the personal attacks he has lately received to the bribery cases on the part of German armaments companies that have been...
Economy
Washington Concerned Over Greece-Europe Negotiations Deadlock
Washington has expressed concern over the impasse in the negotiations between Greece and Europe, and Germany in particular.
White House officials consider that the deadlock in negotiations is posing a threat on the international economy. Caroline Atkinson, international economic aide...
Economy
German FinMin: 'The New Greek Government Destroyed All the Trust'
A new verbal attack against Greece was launched by German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble ahead of Monday's meeting between Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday, March 23 in Berlin.
Schaeuble was sepaking at a...
Culture
Egypt: Tribute to Greek Actor Giorgos Iordanides
The Greek Cultural Center in Cairo and the Greek Community in Cairo, will honor the 10th anniversary since the death of Greek-Egyptian actor Giorgos Iordanidis (1921-2005). A tribute event has been organized to take place on March 22, in...
Cyprus
Cyprus to Explore Space Technology
The need of Cyprus to explore its own capabilities in the field of space technology highlighted Communications Minister Marios Demetriades. Addressing the International Conference on Remote Sensing and Geoinformation of Environment held in Paphos, Demetriades said that space technology are...
Greece
March 25 Greek Independence Day Parade to be Different This Year
Completely different from what Athenians have seen so far will be this year's military parade in celebration of the Greek Independence Day on March 25. The first parade to take place under the leftist SYRIZA-led government will remind nothing of...
Greece
Greek Population at 7.69 Million in 2080
Greek population will shrink to 7.69 million by 2080, according to the European statistical authority, Eurostat.
The Eurostat study projected figures of European population in future decades until 2080.
According to the study, the biggest part of the European population will...
Greece
Former PASOK Ministers to be Investigated by Financial Crime Unit
Former Greek Ministers and long-standing PASOK MPs Vasso Papandreou and Kostas Laliotis declared that "any audit is welcome," commenting in response to headlines of Greek newspaper "Proto Thema," according to which the Financial Crime Unit is about to conduct an urgent...
Cyprus
Cypriot President Anastasiades and Greek Counterpart Pavlopoulos to Meet in Nicosia
The newly elected President of the Hellenic Republic Prokopis Pavlopoulos and his Cypriot counterpart Nicos Anastasiades will soon meet in Nicosia, the Cypriot Presidency revealed in a written statement issued after a telephone conversation between the two leaders.
The statement explained that...
Economy
Greek Deputy Minister for International Economic Relations Asks Partners for Time and Room
Greek Deputy Minister for International Economic Relations Euclid Tsakalotos delivered a keynote speech on Monday at the Economist Conference on “Greece and its creditors: a win-win deal? The strategy, the risk, the outcome” and asked the country’s partners for more...
Greece
PAOK Thessaloniki Gets Rid of Head-Coach Aggelos Anastasiadis
Aggelos Anastasiadis is part of PAOK's history after the administrative body decided to part ways with the veteran coach due to the team's recent frustrating results.
In less than three months the Thessalonian club managed to squander their 5 point lead...