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Busy January ahead for coalition, which rebuffs accusations over Turkish airmen
PoliticsGreek Politicsto grant asylum to one of the eight Turkish servicemen that landed in Greece in a military... than a judicial one. He also highlighted that the asylum had been approved on appeal
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Coalition stresses positives, expects full support for multi-bill
PoliticsGreek Politics. The omnibus bill foresees an increase to half of the paid-up members, from the one third at a moment... added that the government would be providing greater assistance to eligible families with one
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Cabinet reshuffle and new bond issue coming up next for Tsipras
PoliticsGreek PoliticsMegalomystakas issued a brief statement on Wednesday rebuffing reports that he is one of the members... has no plan to leave his current political grouping. Bond issues The reshuffle, though, is just one
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SYRIZA looks towards bailout finishing line and beyond
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat are more in line with SYRIZA’s leftist positions. One of the key concerns within the government... measures worth 2 percent of GDP, or around 3.5 billion euros. This is one of the reasons
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S&P sees improved fiscal and growth prospects, raises credit rating to 'B'
EconomyRating agency S&P raised Greece’s long-term credit rating to ‘B’ from ‘B-’ on Friday, maintaining the positive outlook. S&P was the only one out of the three main rating agencies that only upgraded... with the one being now in progress and almost completed. The programme was frontloaded in conditionality
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Name issue and auction targets make waves in domestic politics
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe position carved out by one of his predecessors, Kostas Karamanlis, when he was prime minister. Speaking... the consequences of Monday’s Eurogroup. The one issue that has made headlines, though, is the demand from
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Tsipras and Mitsotakis head in opposite directions over talks with Skopje
PoliticsGreek Politicsadmitted that making changes to his country’s constitution, which is one of the bones of contention... in views between SYRIZA and Independent Greeks (ANEL) is one of the areas that Mitsotakis focussed
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Edgy atmosphere ahead of new protest over Macedonia name issue
PoliticsGreek Politics. One of the people claiming to be helping organise Sunday’s rally also called in a social media post... to comments made by FYROM’s Foreign Minister Nikola Dimitrov regarding one of the most sensitive aspects
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After Zaev gestures, Athens tries to formulate pact with Skopje
PoliticsForeign Policy. The pact is one of the creative ideas both sides were seeking in order to avoid requiring a review... of a “modular solution” is one of the basic ideas tabled recently by United Nations special envoy
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Greece issues 7-year bond, moves closer to wrapping up third review
EconomyProgrammesuccessfully attempted two debt management exercises. One came last summer, when it swapped a small..., auctions should further rise to 40,000 auctions per year. E-auctions are likely to be one
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