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'We expect the agreement to pave the way for the government to return to capital market funding on a sustained basis, a credit positive,' Moody's said in a report.

Klaus Regling says that taxes are high in Greece, compared to other countries, but it was unavoidable to do the fiscal adjustment that was needed. 'If there is fiscal space, I think [tax cuts] is one of the areas that this fiscal space should be applied'.

The resolution of the dispute with Greece is a compromise “in which we and our Greek friends attempted to preserve what is important for all of us”, FYROM’s foreign minister said.

Once Skopje conducts its referendum, if it chooses to do so in the end, and in any case after the Constitutional revision is completed, then Greece will ratify the agreement in parliament.

In his 15 June speech in parliament, he called upon the military to arrest the President of the Republic, the PM, and the Defence Minister, so as to block the signing of the FYROM naming agreement.

Parliament Speaker Nikos Voutsis described Barbarousis’ unprecedented statement as an effort to incite violence at the demonstrations against the FYROM agreement today, tomorrow and on Sunday.

According to a report in the newspaper Parapolitika, Kammenos and his wife, over the three-day Holy Spirit holiday weekend, traveled to Monaco, at the same time that Prosecutor Tziva was there.

Another question is how and when FYROM will enter Nato. If the Nato accession process begins, it cannot be cut off.

Regling acknowledged that Athens has done much work on the fiscal front, and he said that Greece will be the fifth success of the eurozone.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras announced an historic agreement with FYROM PM Zoran Zaev on the naming issue and issues of identity and language that will allow Skopje to advance its membership application to Nato and the EU

Kostas Karapapas has unleashed withering charges against Thanasis Karteros (PM Alexis Tsipras’ communications advisor) and against publisher Kostas Vaxevanis. Karapapas, the director of communications for PAE Olympiacos, in a social media post, took a stand on the continuing attack against Vangelis Marinakis over the last days, from government friendly media and journalists. Kostas Karapapas’ post […]

“We are in the last minutes of efforts for each side to come closer to the positions of the other, and when that happens we shall jointly announce the happy news for the residents of both countries,” Zaev said.

The government received 500mn euros from March’s 5.7bn loan tranche in order to pay arrears, and it had an obligation to disburse another 500mn euros from the state budget

'We also have a bilateral [migrant] re-admission agreement with Greece, and we have frozen that agreement. The process is not over yet, but our work with Greece will continue,' said Turkey's foreign minister.

The move comes straight on the heels of Greece’s joint (with Bulgarian, Romanian and Serbian forces) Special Operations Forces Exercises, named “Salamis Storm 2018”, which ended on 6 June.

The government is already creating expectations of offering retirees a one-off 13th monthly pension, to counter-balance the planned 2019 pension cuts