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Greece will meet the 3.5 pct surplus target and therefore no pension cuts will be needed, European Commission Vice President Valdis Dombrovskis said on Thursday addressing the European Parliament’s Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs. Regarding the return of profits from Greek bonds, he said: “We are open to it. There must be a dialogue […]
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Main opposition New Democracy (ND) leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis met on Monday with a delegation of the Holy Synod of the Church of Crete. According to a party announcement the two sides discussed recent developments in Church-State relations and mostly the agreement announced by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and Archbishop of Athens and All Greece Ieronymos. […]
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Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al Sisi met on Wednesday in Elounda, Crete, for the 6th Greece-Cyprus-Egypt Summit. The Summit highlighted the high level of cooperation of Greece, Cyprus and Egypt and the enhanced role that their tripartite and multilateral initiatives have gained in promoting regional […]
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Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras began his tour of Chania on Wednesday by visiting the headquarters of the regional authority. In his speech, Tsipras pointed out that this visit marks the beginning of a series of tours he will be making around the country in the autumn in order to inspect the progress of works decided […]
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Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras reshuffled his cabinet on Monday, keeping key ministers in place while bringing in some new faces. As expected, Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos, Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias and Defense Minister Panos Kammenos, Tsipras’s coalition partner, kept their posts. The key changes were the shift of deputy defense minister Fotis Kouvelis to Shipping […]
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