In the wake of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s references to the war with Greece in 1922 and to “despicable Greeks,” government spokesman Giannis Oikonomou responded by saying that the Turkish leader “has chosen to distort history in order to serve his revisionist narrative.”
The country has an existential challenge to live up to: achieving investment grade. Once it does that, it will be in a position to put the crisis behind it and return to economic normalcy.
Officials and top managers are awaiting the next round of reports on Greece by credit rating analysts.
Greek stocks, like those in other markets, were hit hard Monday by talk among central bankers for the need for an aggressively tight monetary policy.
The Istanbul head of Turkey’s main opposition party, Canan Kaftancioglu, who cannot run in next year’s elections but can still play a key role in rallying voters in the nation’s biggest city, denied a new charge of insulting the president on Monday.
MPs have voted to set up a committee of inquiry into the wiretapping of the mobile phone of PASOK-Movement for Change leader Nikos Androulakis.
Ruling New Democracy will not support the proposal for a parliamentary examination committee to look into the surveillance of the phone of PASOK-KINAL leader Nikos Androulakis and abstain by voting “present” during the roll-call vote, the party’s rapporteur Dimitris Keridis told Parliament on Monday.
Bulgaria has reached an agreement in principle to double its reserved capacity at a new liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility to be built off the northern Greek port of Alexandroupoli, its interim energy minister said on Monday.
The Hellenic Authority for Communication Security and Privacy has announced an investigation into National Intelligence Service (EYP) as well as police Special Violent Crime Squad and Intelligence Division over the wiretapping affair.
Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias received US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry on Monday.