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Energy cooperation provides platform for Greece and Bulgaria to strengthen ties
PoliticsForeign PolicyGreece and Bulgaria should seek ways to enhance their cooperation and model their relationship... Alexandroupoli, a port city in northeastern Greece. Both Tsipras and Borisov also stressed the need to step up... that Greece has to catch up with its neighbouring country. He said that “on Bulgarian soil railway
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Piraeus eyes major NPE deal as banks remain focused on bad loans
EconomyMacroeconomy. This in turn will lead to them signing up to manage almost the entire value of the bank’s current NPE... based on the Italian model of an Asset Protection Scheme (APS). The BoG is proposing that banks... schedule. Portfolio sales picked up as the main vehicle used by Greece’s banks for disposing NPEs
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Athens eyes implementation of name deal as Skopje homes in on NATO membership
PoliticsForeign PolicyAccord of 1995). The amendments have always been added at the end of the text copying the US model. What... Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Thursday in Parliament that he will not give up Greece's right... of products was an issue that was also brought up in the parliamentary debate last week, when ND
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Fears and reassurances over PPC's dire finances
EconomyFeaturesthe crisis years, looking to preserve popular support and up against powerful workers’ unions opposing any... business model appears clunky and outdated, especially when it comes to pouring investments into fossil.... As analysts have pointed out, various Greek governments over the past 20 years failed to open up
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Privatisation agency chief identifies key targets for coming months
Economyin legislation which could potentially free up a wider scope for privatisations. For example, new... a sub-concession model to maintain a public aspect to the ports, while the new government has plans... credibility.” He highlighted that the HRADF has set up a dedicated unit to monitor agreements
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Tsipras puts first broad brushstrokes to SYRIZA's picture in opposition
PoliticsGreek Politicswould be “constructive” in opposition. However, Tsipras followed this up by making it clear that his..., and that the conservatives’ growth model is based on the same failed recipe of the past and driven...-up from Greeks, with 69 percent saying that they view the tax policies positively and 63 percent
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Athens looks to overcome APS snags as it awaits green light from Brussels
EconomyBankingon Thursday as the government appears to be stepping up its efforts to secure approval for the Asset... up for the APS plan during his meeting with Mitsotakis. Regardless of this, the Greek proposal still... its opinion. Bankers are said to be concerned that a direct replication of the Italian APS model
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ND passes major environmental bill against accusations of railroading
PoliticsGreek Politicsdeal”, promising to simplify the existing licensing regime to speed up investments in green energy... to the development model of overexploitation of natural resources which led the country to bankruptcy.... In the run-up to the vote WWF and Greenpeace jointly collected over 42,000 signatures in an online petition
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Move to legislate on climate change offers opening to bolster environmental laws
PoliticsGreek Politicsgoals, as well as a Climate Assembly made up of members of the public, and the appointment... that a move to a different economic model was “a matter of survival”. New Democracy is clearly keen... instance has been flagged up as a possible violation of the rights of vulnerable women and children
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Vote on child custody bill reveals rifts within ND, KINAL
PoliticsGreek Politicsup supporting it in the vote. The two rebels, Marietta Giannakou and Olga Kefalogianni, who have both... made available a choice of vaccines to the 40-44 age group, who up until now were only eligible... used as a potential model for other key public services and particularly healthcare workers
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