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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/

'It is an important development in the direction of addressing the issue of irredentism, and we hope that it signals the beginning of a new chapter in the relations between our two countries and peoples,' a statement from the Greek foreign ministry said.

'The Government should support measures to help Macedonia join NATO, with or without a solution to the name issue,' the report states.

By Alexia Kefala In an exclusive interview with the daily Ta Nea, Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama declares that Tirana has no territorial claims against Greece arising from the Cham issue, but that the families of those who left should be able to claim their property rights in the Greek courts. Speaking of a “strategic […]

Mark Warburton, the former manager of Nottingham Forest FC, offered strong praise for the main shareholder of the team, in an interview with the BBC.

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.