The president of the China Machinery Engineering Corporation (CMEC), Zhang Chun, will visit Athens on Monday, heading a delegation of senior company executives, for talks with Greece’s power utility PPC and the signing of the strategic partnership agreement in the country and the wider region.
Farmers in the rural area of Kozani, northern Greece, started harvesting “Krokos”, the local saffron produced by the crocus flower, one of the most important products of the region which have been cultivated for decades.
Hundreds of farmers in the regions of Agia Paraskevi, Kesaria, Ano and Kato Platania Voiou, are found bending over their crops, collecting one-by-one the prized stems of the purple flower.
Greek MEP and vice president of European Parliament Dimitris Papadimoulis underlined in Euroobserver that “in the broader context, the ECB has been called to deal with the eurozone’s catastrophic austerity politics that have almost frozen growth rates below 2% since 2010, weakened macroeconomic indicators, and created a suffocating, unfriendly environment for investments, especially in the European South.
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will focus on the completion of the second program review and on debt relief for Greece during his meetings with his counterparts at the European Council meeting in Brussels.
More than one in three residents of Greece experienced conditions of poverty and/or social exclusion in 2015, according to Eurostat figures released on Monday 17 Oct. The European Union average was roughly one in four, the same report said.
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Greek authorities and the institutions officially began negotiations on a second review of the Greek program on Friday, with a meeting between Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos and the heads of the technical staff of the institutions.
Property prices are in free-fall, with apartment prices down 41.4 pct in the 2006-2016 period, Theodoros Mitrakos, vice-governor of the Bank of Greece said on Thursday.
Greece will not achieve debt relief without new harsh measures, communist party KKE secretary general Dimitris Koutsoumbas on Friday said in statements to ANT1 TV.
Four Turkish fighter jets and two CN-235 entered Athens’ FIR on Thursday without submitting flight plans. Greek authorities registered six violations of air traffic rules in the FIR which turned into 28 violations of national airspace in several parts of the Aegean.
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Fraport Greece presented its plans for upgrading the Macedonia airport in Thessaloniki, the largest of the 14 regional airports that will soon pass under its management.
President of the Socialists and Democrats in the europarliament Gianni Pitella made a plea to Greece's lenders to start the negotiations on the debt relief, after his meeting on Wednesday in Brussels with PASOK party leader Fofi Gennimata.
The health ministry on Wednesday announced downward revisions in the pricing of a series of diagnostic tests and other medical procedures, in order to cut costs by reducing compensation paid to patients covered by state health insurance funds.