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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

For his part, Veniamis extolled the role of shipping in promoting global prosperity, and as the foundation for the development of the broader shipping industry.

The works of the 3-day conference in Boston, organized by Harvard University, were concluded with everyone looking forward to the future. In the second day of sessions and discussions, which also marked the closing of the conference entitled “Participation, Inclusion and Social Responsibility in Global Sports”, was characterized by Christian Karembeu’s emotional speech. Olympiacos’ Strategy […]

FYROM Prime Minister Zoran Zaev and the schismatic Macedonian Orthodox Church-Ohrid Archbishopric wrote to the Ecumenical Patriarchate to allow the local church to be re-incorporated into the canonical order of the Eastern Orthodox Churc

The cities where the demonstrations will be held are Pella, Kavala, Drama, Serres, Kilkis, Polykastro, Lagadas, Nea Moudania, Edessa, Florina, Kastoria, Ptolemaida, and Katerini.

GSEE and ADEDY, the country's largest umbrella unions, were joined by representative social and academic civil society groups, “which have been hit by continuing disastrous policies of austerity, unemployment and over-taxation”.

'If we lose this opportunity, the negotiation will be more difficult in the next 10 years and there will be even smaller chances for a solution. Now we are close,' Zaev

Boutaris said that the four individuals who were tried and convicted of attacking him are simply the small fry, and that authorities will pursue the organisers that masterminded the attack

The anti-authority group Rouvikonas’ direct threat against main opposition leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis constitutes a provocative and dangerous threat to democracy, and has triggered a political and broader backlash. “Whatever we have to say to Mitsotakis, we will say close up, and soon,” a leading member of Rouvikonas said in a post on his Facebook wall. […]

The text leaves open the prospect of lowering the tax-free threshold to 5,700 euros earlier, in 2019, and it makes clear that existing commitments will be implemented at least through 2022.

“Citizens should consider that the vacuum that emerges when the institutions of democracy, including the judiciary, recede, is filled by raw violence, befitting primitive societies,” their statement said.

An EU official who briefed Brussels correspondents on background signaled satisfaction on the conclusion of Greece’s technical agreement with creditors, and expressed certainty that all decisions on Greece’s exit from the memorandum and on debt relief will be taken at the 21 June Eurogroup.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras told his cabinet today that the government will honour all its existing commitments in the post-bailout period, and presented to the cabinet his growth strategy for the coming years.

The name strikes a deep nationalist and irredentist chord, as it commemorates the 1903 Ilinden uprising by the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organisation (IMRO) against the Ottomans, and later efforts to establish a Slavic state on the entire geographic territory of Macedonia