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Nimetz: It is high time we found a solution to the name dispute

The mediator Matthew Nimetz requests that Macedonia and Greece out an end to the pause in negotiations over the name dispute and again to put the issue high on the political agenda. In an interview with the Greek newspaper "Kathimerini", the special representative of the United Nations (UN) in the name talks between Macedonia and Greece, opens all cards from...

EU seeks improvement on cooperation on Macedonian-Greek border

Greece have agreed to accept and accommodate 50,000 refugees in its territory. Along side this, yesterday at the refugee crisis summit in Brussels, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras also accepted the condition to begin a better border-crossing cooperation to be able to cope better with the refugees passing through the Balkans, Athens, Skopje and Tirana. According to information from Greece,...

Tsipras requires more assistance, facilitation and efficiency from the EU for the refugee crisis

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras criticized the European Union for the delay of resolving the refugee crisis. “The EU moves at such a slow rhythm, even though their decisions are in the right place”, stressed Prime Minister Tsipras after the emergency EU summit in Brussels, commenting that the European Union faces an existential problem that must be solved through solidarity and...

Gruevski and Tsipras discussed name dispute in New York

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras had a brief meeting with his Macedonian counterpart Nikola Gruevski in New York over the long disputed name issue. Greek newspaper "Real", indicated that the two Prime Ministers had a discussion during a reception hosted by US President Barack Obama in honour of world leaders participating in the General Assembly of the United Nations. Tsipras...

Greece Votes: Uncertainty over elections

After only eight months after Syriza was elected, the Greek people today again go to the polling stations. More than 9.8 million Greeks have the right to vote today will need to determine which party or political option will decide their future and implement the new package of the measures agreed. What will people choose remains a puzzle until the...

Polls in Greece suggest a narrow race for Parliament

Public opinion polling in Greece, taken three weeks before the early elections, show the race for Government will be very narrow and that the winner is not going to enjoy majority in parliament, which is going to be even more divided than the current one. Results from the six polls that were released over the weekend, show that the leftist...

No light at the end of the tunnel: Many refugees leave and just as many arrive on the Greek islands

New way of migrants and refugees, mostly coming from Syria, is expected to reach the Macedonian border to the south. Greek media repored that around 5 in the morning, the ferry Elifterios Venizelos, carrying 2500 migrants, set off from Mitilini to the island of Lesbos. The ferry is expected to reach Piraeus today around 5:40. From the port, the migrants...

Migrants penetrate the police and army cordon – The police responds by firing stun grenades

A group of migrants penetrated the cordon made of police and army troops. The migrants are moving towards the train station in Gevgelija, reports RTS. RTS’s reporter said the police has fired stun grenades. The migrants are passing through places where there are fewer police and army groops. The Ministry of Interior does not have information regarding other incidents. They added...

Quiet day in Gevgelija – Small groups of migrants are crossing the border

The situation on the Macedonian-Greek border at Gevgelija is quiet. Around 600 migrants crossed the border during the night and headed to the Tabanovce crossing at the Serbian border with the five o’clock train. The Ministry of Interior reports that they are processing numbers of migrants, according to their capacity, to cross the border. Those who belong to vulnerable categories...

Associated Press: Shock-bombs and injured migrants at the Macedonian-Greek border zone

  At least eight people were injured after special police forces used shock-bombs and tear-gas to subdue an unruly crowd of several thousand migrants who are stuck between the borders of Greece and Macedonia, reports the news agency Associated Press, citing information obtained from the Greek police. Foreign agencies are reporting that the crowd of about 3000 people who spent the...

Macedonian police fires tear gas at a crowd of migrants in Gevgelija

Macedonian special police members used tear gas to calm down a growing crowd of unruly migrants which was trying to enter from the border zone to Macedonia, reports Reuters and Radio Slobodna Evropa. The government of Macedonia declared an emergency situation and closed the south border to the migrants, who come mainly from Syria through Greece. The migrants had spent the...

Will SYRIZA split up following the new Memorandum’s vote?

The Greek government is on yet another crossroads. The casting of votes for the new package of measures will show how much support the Government lead by SYRIZA and Prime Minister Tsipras can enjoy from the party’s own rank. The leftist party has inched even closer to dissolution following yesterday’s appeal by former energy minister Panagiotis Lafazanis, who called...

Tsipras clashes with SYRIZA MPs before the coming vote in Parliament

In an environment full of obstacles and mutiny in the ranks of SYRIZA and announcements for protests in the streets, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras submitted in front of the National Assembly the new three-year agreement with Greece’s creditors. There is optimism that the agreement will get a green light by Friday morning. The agreement that will open the country to...

Greece made a payment on their MMF loan

Greece has made a payment of 186.3 million euro on their debt to the International Monetary Fund, reports the institution. By doing this Athens avoided a late payment. This is the first time that Greece, from early June onwards, to pay on time their debt to the MMF. Athens has to pay off 22 billion euro to the international...

Athens and Brussels optimists for an agreement by the end of August

The Greek government is expecting by the end of today to close the first round of negotiations with the “troika” and with its creditors. This will get the country closer to a potential deal by the end of August. In the ranks of the Greek government there is optimism that by August 18 or 20 they can close all...

Tsipras admitted he and Varoufakis had a Plan B for the possible Grexit

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras admitted openly that he had given an order to Yanis Varoufakis to prepare a Plan B, for a possible Greek exit from the Eurozone. Answering to the question posed by the leader of PASOK, Fofi Genimata, regarding the entire controversy which rose with the information of a Varoufakis’s alternative of a parallel banking system...

The intensified communication between Athens and Skopje will not stop despite the political situation in Greece

Despite the political turmoil in Greece, its Ministry of foreign affairs is planning to continue to intensify the policy of proactive cooperation with Macedonia, directed at improving the relations between the countries and solving the name issue. According to diplomatic circles in Greece, the Greek foreign ministry is considering continuing the activities around the name issue even though there is...

Banks in Greece Open, its Economy Sees New VAT Rates

Banks in Greece are open today for the first time in three weeks, but limits to cash withdrawals remain. People can now take out 420 euro once per week, instead of the 60 euro limit per day. Today comes into force the VAT rate hike from 13 to 23 per cent. German chain of markets Lidl announced yesterday in Greek...