W. Shäuble will meet with Greek Prime Minister, Antonis Samaras, the government’s vice-president, Evangelos Venizelos, the Minister of Finance, Yannis Stournaras and the Minister of Administrative Reform and e-Governance, Kyriakos Mitsotakis. According to the German Minister of Finance representative, Mr. Shäuble will express the German government...

In the same interview, he assured that there will be no lay-offs in the Health sector, since, as he said, “there are big voids”. He also announced that, in the first phase of “mobility”, 1,250 employees will leave, with the exception of doctors. Mr. Georgiades underlined that, those who will go into “mobility” status will not have to wait for 8 mo...

“Kapsis, in his youth, asked me for my films in order to open a cine-club. He decided to finally start it with “Madam Mayor” (in Greek, “Kyria Dimarhos”). In EDT, which mispronounces ERT. It is seen, the Minister will say, a historical moment. We are starting with a film by Manthoulis, who curses at us. So, my film will become “Kydia Dimadhos”. Un...

Kostas Sakkas’s case has caused the European Commission’s and Amnesty International worry and intense international interest. In the meantime, Greek Police Department has ordered an administrative investigation after the publication of a video, which depicts police violence against people in solidarity with Kostas Sakkas, during a peaceful rally o...

At the same time, Mr. Venizelos appeared optimistic about the market and tourism issues and pointed out that “our main concern is to support enterprises”, underlining that “without the recapitalisation we would not be able to support the middle and small enterprise”. “Supporting the enterprises means supporting employment” he added.

Mr. Rice also mentioned that, at the end of the month, the Fund’s Board of Directors will meet about Greece, also to decide about the 1.8 billion euro dose. Although no specific date has been set yet, as he said, this will be announced seven days before the meeting and that the dose is expected to be given in mid-August.   The Fund representa...