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“There is an arsenal of new tools for reducing non-performing loans (NPLs),” Dragasakis said, while further noting that the government does not rule out the creation of a 'bad bank'.

Antonopoulou was placed by Athanasios Iliopoulos, who until now headed the labour ministry’s labour inspection bureau (epithreorisi ergasias), and previously served as the secretary of the central council of the youth of Synaspismos.

The charge is that drug pricing resulted in losses for the state of 40 million euros, and an additional 100 milllion euro burden on insured citizens.

“He said the question that remained was whether there was “a real need” to change Macedonia’s constitution,” Reuters quoted Zaev as saying, suggesting that the Greek demand remains a topic of discussion.

“The FBI investigation is focused on crimes that violate American law. There is no FBI investigation pertaining to Greek politicians,” Pyatt said, according to a New Democracy press release, which stressed that the quotation was approved by the staffs of the ND leader and the Embassy, and drafted in both Greek and English.

Data on the execution of the state budget for January, 2018, on an adjusted cash basis, indicate a surplus in the state budget balance sheet of nearly 1.58 billion euros, compared to the initial projection of 503 million euros.

The buyout of Hellenic Environmental Centers (HEC) by Aegean Marine Petroleum has raised a number of serious questions, and has produced scathing reactions by market analysts, including Benjamin Nolan, of Stifel, who monitors Aegean’s stock.

Alexis Tsipras accepted the resignation of Rania Antonopoulou over her receiving a 1,000 euro monthly rent subsidy from the state, based on a law that was initially intended to assist provincial MPs who did not own an Athens residence.Ruling Syriza had amended the law to cover the housing needs of extra-parliamentary ministers, such as Antonopoulou and her husband Dimitris Papadimitriou

Following an informal European Unit summit this evening, European Council President Donald Tusk, speaking as he said on behalf of all 27 European Union member-states, denounced Turkey’s bellicose activity in the Aegean and in Cyprus’ Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) as a patent violation of the sovereign rights of two member states. Tusk said that Cypriot […]

“In this process we must be driven by facts. I have no dilemma that when it comes to the geographical territory of Macedonia, we take its northern or upper part, the southern part belongs to Greece and the eastern part to Bulgaria,” FYROM’s prime minister said.

Sources told Ta Nea that a raid ordered by prosecutors at Novartis’ Athens offices produced a list of 300 doctors who allegedly took bribes of between 1000-5,000 euros between January, 2016, and January, 2017.

The finance ministry will launch in March a new electronic platform where homeowners must register their short-term rental properties for taxation purposes.

Those labouring under the allegations of protected witnesses, have stressed that the allegations against them are nothing more than a mixture of hearsay, speculations, and conjecture

Video shot from the Hellenic Coast Guard patrol boat “Gavdos” proves that the Turkish Coast Guard ship was rushing to ram it in the centre, which would have sunk the aluminum flagship of the Hellenic Coast Guard and imperiled the lives of its 27-member crew. The video evidence belied both of the two explanations offered […]

The former conservative prime minister accuses PM Tsipras of conspiring with prosecutor, minister, and protected witnesses of setting up slanderous plot to accuse him of taking kickbacks from Novartis.

'Greece is not a country that plays games. We are at the core of the European Union and a Nato member-state, with a strong regional role and international alliances. We are a country that is a pillar of stability and security in a more broadly destabilised region,' the PM stressed.

European Commission spokesman Margaritis Schinas calls for 'peaceful settlement of disputes', after Ankara rams Hellenic Coast Guard ship.

It is not by chance that the delays in delivering justice are considered, and indeed are, the Achilles’ heel of the judicial system. This is especially true today, when the time required to adjudicate a case is directly linked with much-needed economic growth.

Stournaras said such a credit line will benefit the economy by helping to lower the cost of borrowing. It will offer Greece security in funding its borrowing needs after the bailout ends in August, especially if the climate in international markets worsens.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras in a speech today asked his parliamentary group to vote for a parliamentary preliminary criminal investigation regarding allegations of politicians receiving kickbacks in the Novartis scandal, and he blasted previous New Democracy and Pasok governments for nurturing a climate of corruption.

In an interview with the daily TA NEA, European Economy and Finance Commissioner Pierre Moscovici says that Greece will have significant leeway in determining its own fiscal policies after the end of the current bailout programme, as long as those policies honour the existing commitments

'Macedonia changed its constitution in 1993. We have made a major step towards eradicating irredentism. Whatever we are doing now is to prove that Macedonia has no ambitions, territorial or otherwise,' the FYROM PM said/