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The judicial file of the alleged kickbacks scandal involving payoffs from the pharmaceutical giant Novartis to several thousand public and private doctors in Greece has made its way to parliament,

Syriza blasts organisers of the huge FYROM rally, even as.New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis charges that the massive protest demonstrates that Greeks do not trust the government to handle crucial national issues.

The keynote speaker, renowned composer Mikis Theodorakis, 92, delivered a fiery speech to declare that Macedonia was and remains Greek, and to deliver withering criticism of the left-wing government, which he denounced as national nihilists.

Tsipras offered Mitsotakis assurances that he took up the matter neither to divide nor to unite any other party. 'I have a responsibility to the country,' he said about the need to settle disputes with Skopje.

'Negotiations cannot but be conducted as a continuation of all that was agreed to in Davos. Every negotiation that is conducted with good will is based on the convergences already achieved,' said Kotzias.

Revisiting the start of the Greek crisis in 2010, Regling conceded that Europe could not have managed without IMF money and know-how, but said that reliance on the IMF is shrinking as ESM lending capacity and expertise grows.

“There are real challenges as regards whether Greece will manage to ensure viable, long-term growth,” Declan Costello told a group of parliamentarians in the Netherlands.

Violence, drug dealing, robberies and sexual harassment are thriving in the courtyards and amphitheatres of Greek universities.

Kammenos also set as a condition that the FYROM constitution be amended to remove several references viewed by Athens as laying claims on Greek territory or as intervening in Greek domestic affairs

Theodorakis is categorically opposed to the use of the name Macedonia by Skopje, on the grounds that Greece’s acceptance of that name will result in it becoming a vehicle to advanced the decades-long irredentist claims against Athens by its northern neighbor.

“At this meeting, we expect to build a broader national consensus and to put many political issues on the table, and the main one is the framework of a solution tabled Matthew Nimetz,” a government spokesman announced in Skopje

Rama, after a string of anti-Greek statements, adopted a different tack just two days ago, declaring that all problems can be resolved by spring.

FYROM Prime Minister Zoran Zaev, announced today he will take immediate steps to change the name of the Skopje Alexander the Great Airport and of a national highway with the same name. Greek government will move to ratify in parliament the second stage of the FYROM-EU Association Agreement, Tsipras announced

“It is of crucial importance for the economic recovery in Greece, and the forward looking capital adequacy of Greek banks, that progress be made on NPE resolution,” the letter states.

In yet another effort to put opposition New Democracy on the spot over its position on the FYROM naming issue – given the statements of sympathy from conservative cadres for the huge Thessaloniki protest opposing Greek acquiescence for the use of the name Macedonia by Skopje – Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’ office has distributed a […]

“Of course the issue of the Turkish officers was raised,” Kontonis told journalists, returning to his offer that the eight can be tried in Greece if Ankara decides to submit a request to that effect.

Ieronymos underlined that of the full hierarchy of 82 Metropolitan bishops of the Greek Orthodox Church of Greece, only nine attended the massive Thessaloniki protest.

The government did everything in its power to limit attendance at the protest, including persuading Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens and All Greece to come out against FYROM protests.

In his lengthy response to a letter sent to him by an operatic singer from the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, published by Ta Nea today, composer Mikis Theodorakis outlines the history of the bilateral dispute and focuses on FYROM’s diachronic irredentist claims against Greece. In the initial letter, Blagoj Nacoski, a 39-year-old tenor with […]

The main opposition party focuses in particular on how the government dealt with the vice president of the Council of State, Athanasios Rantos, who was on the bench when the high court ruled unconstitutional the government’s law on broadcast television licensing.