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The bi-annual report urges that priority be given to investment in infrastructure, the development of skills, combating poverty, and improving the effectiveness of public expenditures and audits.

What national interest is served by having film industry executives and ministry staff traveling on a regular passenger ship to see Greece’s beauties even as the competent deputy minister was sailing on a yacht?

The queues of pensioners at ATMs the day the first pension bonus was disbursed demonstrated how much retirees need that money to cover their living needs.

The government exceeded primary surplus targets by taking from the many so as to hand out electoral benefits to the few.

Five months ago Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras inaugurated the metro there with a ticket vending machine that was painted on canvas as a backdrop.

On 13 May, a source familiar with the matter said the United States had asked Turkey to delay taking delivery of the S-400 system, currently scheduled for July, in return for potentially approving the formation of the working group.

'Kalimera, I woke up to more childish vandalism this morning outside the residence and will continue to work with Greek authori.ties to punish the culprits according to law,' US Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt said in a tweet.

If one factors in the number of impoverished workers and the army of unemployed one realises how unrealistic governmental pronouncements are regarding Greece supposedly having exited the crisis.

The initiative of certain universities to reward professors distinguished by stellar student evaluations or because their academic research has contributed to the reputation of their universities is laudable for many reasons.

Metropolitan Serapheim said that the Gold Cross awarded to Marinakis was a “gesture of gratitude for his invaluable contribution to the work of the diocese”

Mitsotakis blasted “SYRIZA’s miserable talk of seven-day work” and said he referred to Papastratos Tobacco, where employees work five days and 37 hours per week with better pay.

The UK has suffered both a domestic and foreign policy shock brought on by Grexit

What is needed is a national unity of spirit so as to agree to a national strategy which all parties will respect.

Nicosia hopes Total-ENI collaboration in its EEZ will hamper Erdogan’s plans far more effectively than the EU’s verbal remonstrance and tepid warnings.

The alarm bell that the deputy prefect of Crete rang regarding the capacity of the island’s power grid also constitutes a sombre warning regarding the adequacy of the country’s infrastructure in general.

It is impermissible for a prime minister to be hosted on a yacht by a private citizen who in turn receives from the PM a public office, a diplomatic passport, and a nomination to gain membership in an international organisation.

“Re-running the elections is a negative development in that it extends this period of uncertainty,” said Edward Parker, managing director overseeing Turkey at Fitch Ratings,

The government’s haste in paying a bonus to pensioners immediately indicates that the timing of the general election may be sooner rather than later.

The Commission projects a Greek growth rate of 2.2 percent both in 2019 (where the forecast is unchanged since the last report) and in 2020 (for which the projection has been adjusted slightly downward).

The warnings of experts on the effects of climate change on food supply, food safety, health, and the quality of life globally must be viewed as a resounding alarm bell in order to take immediate action.

It is patently obvious that it cannot be that 145 experts from 59 countries are wrong but those who deny climate change – unfortunately including US President Donald Trump – are right.

The government has put taxpayers in an economic pincer which has created mounting debts to the tax bureau and to insurance funds.

'If you were not aware of these financial situations of our Archdiocese as you claim, then who was the Archbishop I was working very close with these past 17 years?' said

For months it has been clear that sooner or later Ankara would proceed with actions aiming to ensure that it has a place on the energy map of the southern Aegean.

Then alternate citizen’s protection minister Nikos Toskas, who was in charge of Greek police, in an apparent effort at plausible deniability declared today that the Prime Minister had not been informed of the deaths because they had not been “officially confirmed”

The crime has been perpetuated because the culprits are on the loose, because such a heinous crime has not been solved, and because there was no remorse for the chilling cry at the time of the crime: “Let them burn!”

In the 13 prefectures of the region of Macedonia SYRIZA is trailing New Democracy by a whopping 14.3 percentage points.

This government has instituted measures which previous ones would never have considered. It tied up state assets by handing them over to the Asset  Development Fund, cut pensions, and passed a law lowering the tax-free threshold.

The provision to make many felonies simple misdemeanours will lead to closing about 4,500 felony cases. Thousands of cases involving theft, embezzlement, fraud, and breach of duty will simply disappear.

The government’s slew of handout and social benefits that are designed to lure voters does not appear to have substantially improved SYRIZA’s polling numbers.

A man was killed this Easter and another person is in hospital struggling to survive because of customs such as homemade, hand-held rocket-like fireworks and the celebratory shooting up into the air with rifles.

Given the current impasse and the dark electoral projections the only card the PM has left is snap elections.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras told the Financial Times in an interview that he is not going to base his electoral campaign on charity or handouts.