Former German chancellor Angela Merkel has said that she insisted the International Monetary Fund be involved in dealing with the Greek financial crisis in 2010 as Europe had no experience in dealing with countries with similar problems.
Approximately 10,000 of 80,000 Israelis who have left Israel since October 7, 2023 have chosen Greece as their new home, according to a report by French newspaper La Croix.
Former German chancellor Angela Merkel has said that she never sought Greece’s exit from the eurozone, even though her stance led to tensions with her finance minister, Wolfgang Schaeuble.
George Papandreou’s move to withdraw a proposal to hold a referendum in 2011 during the country’s financial crisis was “the best possible decision” as the European Union “would not have known how to deal with a Greek exit” from the eurozone, former German chancellor Angela Merkel has said.
Alexis Tsipras’ call informing her about the 2015 referendum “was the most surprising phone call of my political career” and left her “speechless,” Angela Merkel has said.
Authorities have arrested two individuals in connection with a series of thefts in the areas of Megara and Nea Peramos, west of Athens.
The refugee issue had become so “dramatic” in Greece and the European Union that it necessitated a deal being done with Turkey in 2016 that she does not regret, former German chancellor Angela Merkel has said.
An informal five-party meeting on the Cyprus issue will be held at the United Nations headquarters in New York in mid-July, UN Secretary-General spokesperson Stephane Dujarric announced during a press briefing.
US President Donald Trump is an attention seeker who yearns the limelight, former German chancellor Angela Merkel has said, recalling how he did not shake her hand at a meeting in the Oval Office in March 2017 but that he did so outside the room.
A wildfire broke out on Wednesday afternoon in a forested area of the Vourvourou region in Halkidiki, northern Greece, prompting a swift response from firefighting teams on the ground and in the air, working intensively to bring the blaze under control.