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The total amount of business deposits in January dropped by 1.008bn euros compared to an 862mn euro rise the previous month.

The country’s infrastructure works, including the roads network, are antiquated. Their endurance is minimal and the safety of thousands of citizens is jeopardised.

Critics say the Prespa Agreement leaves plenty of room for misinterpretation and exploitation by forces which wish to stir problems and push for the recognition of a “Macedonian minority in Greece”.

Do the bridge-builders really believe that SYRIZA has rid itself of the odd alliance with its erstwhile partner, Panos Kammenos’  Independent Greeks party?

In an exclusive interview with To Vima, the Harvard economics professor and former IMF chief economist discusses Greece’s growth prospects.

Metropolitan Emmanuel of France tells To Vima that Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomeos granted Autocephaly to Ukraine to preserve unity, debunks theory of Moscow as ‘Third Rome’.

The anarchist group Rouvikonas again displayed its nihilistic practices by attacking a department store on Pireos Street.

Andreas Papandreou came to power by uniting the Greeks, in contrast to Alexis Tsipras who won by dividing and governed with the same divisive rhetoric.

When Greece had 39 deaths from the flu Alternate Health Minister Pavlos Polakis appeared on TV and said 'This is not a catastrophe.'

The Finance Minister said the estimated cost of New Democracy’s announcements so far is 5bn euros in the first year and another 4bn over the next four years and that ND has not said where the money will come from.

At a cabinet meeting yesterday, the PM unleashed yet another attack on the country’s central banker, describing him as an “over-valued technocrat”.

The country is at risk of not receiving the profits – amounting to approximately one billion euros - on Greek bonds held by the European Central Bank.

'I directly call upon the Prime Minister and the government to take action to protect the independence of the Bank of Greece, which is guaranteed by both European and Greek law,' said Greece's central banker.

A government can either succeed or fail in its mission. However, it has no right to transform public life into a cesspool.

Kotzias was the architect of the Prespa Agreement and Kammenos and his Independent Greeks party (then the junior coalition partner) vehemently opposed it.

One cannot but agree that the manner in which certaing Pasok cadres moved to SYRIZA creates the impression that the PM is in panic

One reason the economy must be bolstered is so that the government can place limits on the objectives and behaviours of international players.

Katrougalos succeeded Tsipras who had assumed the foreign affairs portfolio after Nikos Kotzias resigned in October .

The ruling party is beginning to pay the price that other parties paid when SYRIZA in order toremain in power recruited renegade MPs.

It is impermissible for partisan criteria to take precedence over the need of the whole of society to meet the challenges of our era.

The official line of the PM’s office is that the election will be in October, but most analysts are convinced that parliamentary elections will be held along with the other three races.

With the populist rhetoric that guided its thoughts and actions, the government engaged in a number of such clashes with reality, and reality won.

'There was absolute concord and identical views in both Churches, both on the proposals regarding the revision of the Constitution and on maintaining the existing system for paying the salaries of the Orthodox clergy.'

Our professors and students will build the universities of the 21st century. In this effort, the state cannot but support them.

'What Mr. Dragasakis said in the context of parliamentary debate was skewed in order to stir a sensation,” said Tzanakopoulos.

The conservative leader called for new, mutually beneficial Greece-Germany economic cooperation with a focus on investments.

SYRIZA and the Independent Greeks party experienced their joint rule as a romance. Now, we are witnessing a rupture the characteristics of which transcend politics.

Instead of confronting the burning issue of non-performing loans in a drastic manner, the government is testing the limits of the system with its policies

The majority was comprised of SYRIZA’s 145 MPs and eight more independents including MPs of the former Potami party parliamentary group.

The Papachristopoulos saga with his on again off again resignation was spurred by the MPs decision to break the party line on three crucial votes.

EPP's Manfreled Weber leaves open possibility of renegotiation of Greek programme’s primary surplus targets

The EPP's Manfred Weber in Athens lionised main opposition New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis and indirectly but clearly dismissed Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras as a populist who cannot bring growth.

'The Independent Greeks’ parliamentary group convened and we unanimously demanded that Mr. Papachristopoulos surrender his seat to the party as he had promised.'