The Council of State on Thursday judged the removal and subsequent return of the antiquities discovered during the construction of the Thessaloniki's underground metro to Venizelos station to be fully legal and constitutional, dismissing objections raised by the Thessaloniki municipality.
A high-ranking Greek government source was quick to clarify that PM Alexis Tsipras’s statement on Thursday in parliament about “psychological issues”, which was interpreted by the press to refer to German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schauble had nothing to do with the German politician.
European Commission spokesperson Annika Breidthardt defended the data the European Commission uses for the Greek programme against IMF's criticism.
With two bills on the extrajudicial settlement of indebted businesses and the setting up of a credit line, the government seeks to ease the business liquidity problem and the problems of the banks that prevent liquidity injection to healthy firms, Economy and Development Minister Dimitris Papadimitriou on Thursday said at the signing ceremony for the establishment of EquiFund together with the European Investment Bank.