German Chancellor Angela Merkel will pay a visit to Greece on October 28-29, her spokeswoman in Berlin announced on Friday. The visit date may have also a symbolic character as it coincides with the National Day October 28, the day Greeks celebrate as Ochi-Day, the day the country said “No” …
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Merkel in Athens: 4 Metro stations close, traffic disruption, high security
Four metro stations in downtown Athens will be closed for several hours, Metro and Proastiakos lines to/from Airport will be disrupted during the two-day visit of German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Greece. On Thursday, Jan 10, Metro station <Evaggelismos> closes for the public at 4: 00 pm, stations <Megaron Mousikis>, …
Read More »Athens tells Merkel: Greek-Turkish joint patrols in the Aegean are out of question
Greek Foreign Ministry made it clear: there is no way that Germany or any other ‘partners’ or ‘neighbor’ like Turkey will be involved in the country’s borders protection in order to stop the refugees influx. A day after German Chancellor Angela Merkel indicated to talk to Turkey to cooperate in …
Read More »What Merkel didn’t see in Athens…
German Chancellor had certainly a very heavy schedule today in Athens. She rushed from entrepreneurs’ forum to businessmen’ meeting, from tet-a-tet meeting with Greek Prime Minister to a joint press conference in front of Greek and international media. Her visit to Acropolis was kind of spoiled due to the rain …
Read More »Merkel in Athens: “I came to take a look into the future”
“I came here to take a look into the future and talk with new people with new ideas,” German Chancellor Angela Merkel said during a joint press conference with Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, right upon her arrival in Athens. I have to apologize right away, though. It was not …
Read More »Merkel visit to Athens: closed roads, protests ban and draconian security measures, Apr 11/2014
Athens is preparing to welcome German Chancellor Angela Merkel with draconian security measures on Friday, April 11th 2014, a day after a powerful car bomb exploded in the middle of the city’s downtown. Some 5,000 police officers are to safeguard the areas where the German delegation will be moving around. …
Read More »German Stammtisch-humor: Merkel’s Envoy Otto Rehhagel arrived in Athens
It must be humor. German humor around the traditional Stammtisch* with Alte Herren* and the whole associated mentality. A humor that other EU citizens may find hard to understand. Hours after Germany re-confirmed its predominance in the Eurogroup and the Euro Zone, former football trainer Otto Rehhagel arrived in Athens. As …
Read More »Merkel sends Otto Rehhagel to Athens to encourage Greeks
Former coach of Greek National Football team, German Otto Rehhagel, is due to Athens in a good will mission. To help improve the crisis- and austerity-hit German-Greek relations, to boost tourism and to encourage Greeks. According to tabloid BILD newspaper, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has assigned Rehhagel with the mission …
Read More »Merkel in Athens: She Came, Saw, and Left. And Wished Greeks Stayed in the Euro – Live Blogging
Hardly had Angela Merkel set foot in Athens and the blood started to boil among the thousands of protesters gathered in the city’s downtown. Despite the draconian security measures and the massive deployment of riot police, angry Greeks moved to downtown to protest the visit of German Chancellor. 2:45 pm …
Read More »Merkel in Athens with Same Jacket She Wore When Germany Defeated Greece in EURO 2012
Unbelievable! German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrived in Athens wearing a lime green jacket. A jacket she also was wearing when she watched the football match between Germany and Greece. In June 22, 2012 during the EURO tournament. When broke Greeks went home defeated 4-2 by the German team. Euphoric: German Chancellor …
Read More »Merkel in Athens: Police Bans Protest Rallies in City’s Centre! Are We in State of Emergency?
The elderly recalled the days during the junta (1967-19674), when puppet government and the colonels were imposing bans on ‘meetings and gathering with participation of more than three people’. The decision of Greek police issued on Monday noon to ban protest rallies in downtown Athens during the visit of Merkel must have indeed caused …
Read More »“Tsipras saved Greece” writes Angela Merkel in her memoirs
“With Alexis Tsipras, Greece was now saved,” German chancellor at the peak of the Greek economic crisis, Angela Merkel, notes in her memoirs book, entitled “Freedom.” Talking about the “Greek crisis” in 35 pages, Angela Merkel recalls the events 2010-2018, the negotiations, the referendum and the exit from bankruptcy as …
Read More »Mitsotakis praises Merkel’s stance in economic crisis; Greeks: “She wont’ be missed”
“Angela Merkel was the voice of reason and stability. Unfair sometimes, but decisive as in 2015 when she rejected the expulsion of Greece from Europe ” Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis praised the outgoing German Chancellor in joint statements on Friday. Merkel is in Athens for a two-day “highly symbolic …
Read More »Chancellor Merkel to visit Greece at the end of October
German chancellor Angela Merkel will visit Athens most likely at the end of the month, media reported on Sunday. It will be one of Merkel’s last visits abroad before she steps down after 16 years in power. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis invited the outgoing German Chancellor during the EU informal …
Read More »Merkel won’t support sanctions against Erdogan despite latest provocations
Greece may want to push for sanctions against Turkey at the EU Summit on Thursday but Germany is determined to have her “liebling” ally Recep Tayyip Erdogan prevail with his aggressive and expansion policies. Greece has made clear that with Oruc Reis operating in Greek continental shelf, there can be …
Read More »Macron, Merkel tell Turkey “We won’t accept attacks on sovereignty in East Mediterranean”
French President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday that Europe must protect its members’ sovereignty in the Eastern Mediterranean when it is cast into doubt. He said that France and Germany would act in a coordinated way and that both countries want a de-escalation of tensions and respect for sovereignty. Macron …
Read More »Ex PM Samaras: Merkel offered me Grexit in August 2012
Former Prime Minister of Greece Antonis Samaras said German Chancellor Angela Merkel offered him a temporary “Grexit, a withdrawal of the country from the Eurozone amid its large-scale economic crisis. He immediately rejected the offer, he said. “I immediately cut her short and said: ‘We will not continue this discussion, …
Read More »Merkel acknowledged Greek WWII reparations claims for Nazis atrocities?
Few Greeks were impressed by the statements of German Chancellor Angela Merkel during her two-day visit in Athens on Jan 10-11. Apart from the political leadership and the financial sector officials and interest parties, majority of Greeks complained about the traffic disruptions and closed metro stations. They didn’t even seem …
Read More »Pressure for reforms? Merkel to visit Greece with wrong agenda in her luggage
“German Chancellor Angela Merkel will urge Greece to press on with tough economic reforms and maintain strict fiscal discipline when she visits Athens on Thursday for the first time in nearly five years,” reuters reports a day before she arrives in Athens. Moreover, Merkel will encourage Greek politicians to support …
Read More »UPD 2000 migrants to return to Greece as Athens Berlin reach agreement
Berlin and Athens have reached an agreement that will allow Germany to return asylum seekers to Greece, a German Interior Ministry spokesperson said on Friday. The agreement will extend to asylum seekers registered in the Eurodac system the spokesperson said. “We have reached an agreement with Greece, the interior ministries …
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