PM: Greece to repay €5 bln in bailout loans by 2025
Greece plans to repay at least €5 billion ($5.3 billion) in bailout loans by 2025, well ahead of their scheduled maturities between 2033 and 2042, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has said.
Greece plans to repay at least €5 billion ($5.3 billion) in bailout loans by 2025, well ahead of their scheduled maturities between 2033 and 2042, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has said.
It takes around eight months to complete a house purchase in Greece, while in Italy it takes 120 days and in Cyprus only up to four days.
Only days after meeting with his Greek counterpart in Athens, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan has reiterated his view that his country’s dispute with Greece does not only concern maritime boundaries – specifically the continental shelf and exclusive economic zones (EEZ) – but also broader issues, including the “demilitarization” of Greek islands.
Ten days after Donald Trump’s win in the US presidential election, the government is shifting its focus from what it will mean for bilateral relations to a more complicated question: Will “Trumpism,” a shorthand for right-wing populism, also become influential in Greek politics.
Stefanos Kasselakis, who recently split from the leftist SYRIZA opposition to form his own political party, announced on Monday that the name of the new venture will be decided through a three-day open vote from November 20 to 22.
Greek Supreme Court Prosecutor Georgia Adeilini has ordered an urgent preliminary investigation to determine why footage from CCTV cameras at Thessaloniki Railway Station, which was handed over by the station’s management to the investigating judge in Larissa handling the Tempe train crash inquiry, did not include videos from the site where the freight train was…
Doctors, nurses and an ambulance driver are among 47 people on trial accused of causing the deaths of 10 infants as part of an alleged scheme to defraud Turkey’s social security system.
A drive has gotten under way to protect an architectural gem on the southeastern Aegean island of Rhodes that has fallen into ruin and been savagely vandalized.
The expulsion of former prime minister Antonis Samaras from the ruling New Democracy party, and its potential impact on the government, is the main issue dominating the political agenda this week.
A riot police unit stationed outside the Turkish Consulate in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, was attacked early Monday by unidentified assailants throwing Molotov cocktails.