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The government’s aim is to include in the arrangement salaried taxpayers and pensioners with a debt of between 3,000 - 5,000 euros, who must now pay within one year, and freelance professionals who are unable to declare bankruptcy.

Asked by Ta Nea about pension cuts, Angela Merkel's office has signaled that the Greek government must stay the course of reforms, as agreed to this past summer, upon the completion of the third and last bailout memorandum.

Theodoros Fessas, the head of the Hellenic Federation of Enterprises, underlined that “All politicians, on both sides [the two largest political parties] are distributing money which does not exist,” he said.

“All banks have exceeded targets as regards the resolution of Non-Performing Loans (NPLs) and have passed the stress tests,” Tsakalotos stressed, noting that all four banks have capital adequacy and that there has been a rise in deposits.

Ankara says the objective is to halt "illegal activity, but the new advanced radars will also be able to monitor the movements of the Greek Coast Guard and Navy at every moment.

It does not suffice for Greece to prove its own trustworthiness, because it is linked to the trustworthiness of other weak links in the eurozone.

The government has not answered basic questions about secret understandings reached by Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias and PM Alexis Tsipras [with the FYROM side], behind the back of opposition parties and the Greek people.

The state allows people who have experienced the pain of war and uprooting to live in conditions of absolute terror. In this terrifying daily life, it offers no way out and no prospects.

'It is good that the agreement is now to be submitted to the Macedonian Parliament following the consultative referendum,' said German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas.

The government realises that implementation of the measure will not just be a defeat for it, but will result in a real trouncing.

Investors are discouraged, when affairs are revealed that bolster their distrust, and when an investigation of these cases and the assignment of responsibility is an exceptionally slow process.

The height of the wave between the Peloponnese and Crete, based on the wave model of the National Observatory/meteo.gr, is expected to be over 11 metres.

EU officials have repeatedly denounced the prosecution of Georgiou, which they view as shameful harassment, arguing that he just did his job properly.

'Panagiotis Lafazanis, a former SYRIZA minister and currently a party leader, has been summoned by State Security, as was done to intimidate leftists and democrats, during the dark days of post-Civil War Greece,' the composer said.

Bank managers say that the biggest, longstanding problem is that citizens are draining their bank accounts in order to pay exorbitant taxes and insurance contributions.

It is obvious that the message that the education minister is sending to unhired teachers is, “Vote for us now, and we will appoint you in three years.”

This was the first meeting between the two leaders since Ankara on 15 August released two Greek army officers that had been incarcerated in a Turkish prison for over five months,

Delinquent VAT debts amounts to over two billion euros, and personal income tax debt amounts to 18.5bn euros

An organised state is not judged only by the way it manages a catastrophe. It is also judged by how it handles the aftermath.

Panos Kammenos is on edge because his party literally disintegrated, both in the polls and on the level of cadres.

The latest victims of Kammenos’ cottage industry of lawsuits against journalists and media outlets were the journalists of the newspaper Fileleftheros.

You feed the public with an alleged “clean hands” approach, even as you are setting up new vested interests

It also appears not to understand the function of the press in a democracy, and it has displayed an uncontrollable intolerance toward media that are not to its liking.

For citizens, the end of the period of bailout memorandums does not translate into an improvement in the economy or in their personal economic situation.

Meetings have been arranged with executives of the Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, and Morgan Stanley, as well as with representatives of large investment groups and capital management funds.

The diamond of the Ivory Coast: I always worked hard. When I came to Greece and developed a good relationship with the management of the team and with the fans, I realised that I will accomplish a lot. I grew stronger. I learned a lot in Ukraine as well, but it was different here. Afterwards, I felt more self-assured. I went prepared to both Monaco and Barcelona. The next steps were extremely swift, like a barrage. I did not realise how fast the three years in Barcelona passed.

There have been complaints by the fire-stricken in Mati, Attica, that after the assurances of ministers that there will be a full restoration of the area, there has been radio silence.

Regarding the Greece-FYROM naming agreement (Prespa Accord), 60 percent of respondents view it probably or certainly negatively, while 28 percent view it probably or certainly positively.

The procedure provides for consultations between the social partners and the government, with the participation of expert academics, research institutes and experts on labour economics, social policy, and labour relations.

'Monuments, Museums, archaeological sites, historical sites, and the cultural heritage in general cannot be ceded and are excluded from any manner of transaction,' the ministry said.

Even as the borrowing interest rates for Greece remain at prohibitive heights, Cyprus has returned to the markets and is borrowing cheaply.

The IMF appears determined to make its views known on a political level, beginning with the representatives of eurozone member-states in the Eurogroup Working Group, which is set to meet in Brussels on September 20-21.

Former US President George W. Bush has written a lengthy open letter “to the citizens of Macedonia” urging them to vote in the 30 September referendum on the Greece-FYROM naming accord,