Tourism Minister Elena Kountoura briefed the MPs and the parties' responsible for Tourism in a broad meeting on Thursday on the lastest developments and the course of the Greek tourism.
The National Council on Foreign Policy chaired by Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias will convene for second time in 2016 on the Cyprus issue at the Foreign Ministry on Friday.
Short-term measures for the debt will be possibly activated early 2017, government sources said and confirmed that these measures are not related to the conclusion of the second programme review.
The Athens City Hall on Kotzias Square was lit with the colours of the German flag - black, red and gold - after 19:00 on Wednesday, in a gesture of symbolic support for Berlin and the victims of the deadly terror attack in one of the German city's Christmas markets.
The number of unemployed Greeks registered at the Greek Employment Organisation (OAED) exceeded 1 million in November, according to newspaper “Kathimerini, which cites expert sources.
Right after Moody’s warning about the Greek economy, Bofa Merrill Lynch came forward with a statement that criticizes the Greek government. According to the statement, the bonus to the pensioners that the Greek government announced was a unilateral decision that not only violated the agreement, but was also based on an overoptimistic calculation of the expected surplus.
Greece’s European creditors are requesting the country’s Finance Minister, Euclid Tsakalotos sign a written document guaranteeing his government would refrain from unilateral actions in the future similar to the recent social benefits PM Alexis Tsipras granted to pensioners.
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Tuesday spoke with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on the telephone and offered the sincere condolences of the Greek people for the families of the victims and the German people after Monday night's deadly attack in Berlin, a press release from the premier's office said.
The one-off cash benefit for low-income pensioners recently passed by the government will not be taxed, nor offset or seized to pay off previous debts to the public sector, according to a last-minute amendment added to a spatial planning bill on Tuesday.
Documenta 14, one of the world’s biggest international modern art exhibitions, has been held in the German city of Kassel since 1955. For the first time the exhibition will take place in two cities – Kassel and Athens.
Greece's Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias on Tuesday said that the European Union and the Arab world must work together to find solutions to crises in the region, starting with that between Israel and the Palestinian Territories, while seeking broader cooperation in the "spirit of the Rhodes Conference," in his address to the 4th EU-Arab League Ministerial in Cairo.
A Turkish CN-235 military transport plane on Tuesday violated Greek air space and flew over the islet Panagia in the Oinousses complex at a height of just 100 feet (30 metres), the Hellenic National Defence General Staff (HNDGS) reported.
Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias expressed his condolences to the people of Turkey, Germany and Switzerland and the families of the victims.
It is the government's political will to have all works in Crete completed by 2019 when elections will be held, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Tuesday said.