EU Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship Dimitris Avramopoulos on Monday referred to the significant progress made on the refugees issue at the extraordinary Justice and Home Affairs Council, held in Brussels

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras opened on Tuesday the cabinet meeting opened  with a speech, in which according to sources stressed the need for huge reforms and underlined that it would be a catastrophe if the government simply remained stuck to the implementation of the memorandum

The Eurozone is ready to discuss the further easing of Greece debt within 2015 but not a nominal haircut, the head of the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) Klaus Regling said in an interview with Cyprus' "Politis" newspaper published on Sunday.