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President Anastasiades Expresses Resoluteness for a Cyprus Settlement to EU Heads

Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades pledged on Wednesday resoluteness to work tirelessly, in order to find a comprehensive settlement to the Cyprus problem, during separate meetings with the heads of EU institutions, in Brussels. President Anastasiades informed first the European Commission...

European Commission Chief Juncker on Greek PM: I Have Full Confidence in Tsipras

I have full confidence in the Greek government and Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker told Euro2day. Invited to comment on the statements of European People's Party President Manfred Weber, in which the name of the President...

Junker on Greek Debt: 'No Major Cuts in the Pension Sector Should be Pursued by Institutions'

As the institutions suggest more pension cuts for Greeks in order to cut back on government spending, the chief of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker has spoken out against such an idea, calling for a real debt relief plan...

Yanis Varoufakis: 'EU Anniversary is Nothing to Celebrate'

At the 60th anniversary summit of the European Union, European leaders celebrated the signing of the Declaration of Rome. Simultaneously the former right hand to PM Tspiras, Yanis Varoufakis along with his wife protested in the central streets of Italy. The ex-Greek...

EU’s Juncker: Eurozone Lenders and Greece Should Achieve Technical Deal by April 7

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said on Friday that eurozone lenders and Greece should reach a technical deal before a meeting of eurozone finance ministers on April 7, as reported by Reuters. The IMF is pushing Greece on the contentious...

PM Tsipras Asks Juncker if the 'European Acquis' Applies to Greece

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Thursday sent a letter to European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker asking if the European acquis communautaire applies to all EU member states or it’s applicable to all except Greece. The letter was also sent to...

EU Presents Five Visions for The Future of Europe

Federalizing the European Union, creating a multi-speed bloc or reducing the union to a single market vehicle. Those are some options proposed on the future of the European Union in a White Paper by European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker. The...

European Commission President: "Greeks Made More Reforms than Northern Europeans"

No country in Europe has achieved more progress than Greece on the issue of competitiveness, said European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker on Saturday. The European Commission president spoke on  German public radio Deutschlandfunk (DLF) where, inter alia, he said that,...

EU to Give Cyprus €3.1bn if Solution Materialises

The European Commission will allocate 3.1 billion euro in case of a solution of the Cyprus problem, Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker told the Conference on Cyprus, in Geneva, reliable sources have told the Cyprus News Agency (CNA). They said that...

European Commission President in Geneva to Support Cyprus' 'Very Last Chance' of Reunification

President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker will be present at the UN Geneva conference on Cyprus calling it the "last chance" of the island's reunification. "I took a personal interest in the reunification issue of Cyprus, I would think...