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Hospitalized patients refuse to be discharged when their health improves, because they have nowhere to go and cannot afford the cost of living. This shocking complaint was made by the president of Hospital Workers Union POEDIN on Thursday. President of POEDIN, Michalis Giannakos, made public stories of people who use …

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Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis reiterated his government’s firm position that rejects a two-state solution to the Cyprus issue proposed by Turkey and the Turkish Cypriots. Mitsotakis made the statement during a working dinner of European Council leaders with UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres held in Brussels on Thursday. In this …

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The ‘green pass’ digital vaccination certificate will be available to Greek citizens as of June 1, the Digital Governance Ministry said on Saturday. According to state-run news agency amna, inoculated citizens can log into gov.gr with their taxis-net or social security (AMKA) numbers and have their certificate issued. The vaccination …

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Greece has successfully completed the issue of a 30-year bond with bids submitted totalling 20 billion euros. The interest rate of the issue at 1.8 pct. The process opened with the initial guidance for the interest rate at MS plus 160 basis points, or around 2.0 pct. The Greek state …

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Greece has launched the issue of “digital vaccination certificates” as of today, Friday, February 19, 2021. “The vaccination certificate is now available for the citizens who have received the second dose of the Covid-19  vaccine,” Minister of Digital Government, Kyriakos Pierrakakis, said on Friday morning. The certificate is available on …

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The Greek state is preparing to once again tap the markets with a 10-year bond issue within the next few days. The Greek state aims to raise 1.5 to 2 billion euros. The Public Debt Management Agency (PDMA) on Tuesday instructed the banks serving as joint bookrunners on the transaction …

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The Hessian Peace Prize 2020 has been awarded to the Prime Minister of North Macedonia, Zoran Zaev, and the former prime minister of Greece, Alexis Tsipras, for solving the name dispute, SYRIZA said in a press release on Tuesday. The decision was announced by Boris Rhein, President of the Landtag …

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Greece’s Finance Ministry denied reports that it was planning to issue a 10-year government bond and its issue had been postponed due to Italy market jitters. Citing government officials, international news agency reuters said in an exclusive story that Greece has decided to push back by a few months its …

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Germany has urged Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) on Monday to solve all the remaining issues standing in the way of an agreement to settle a decades-old dispute regarding the Macedonia name issue. In a statement issued a day before Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias meets …

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Deputy Finance Minister Giorgos Chouliarakis approved the cooperation between Greece and the financial advisory group Rotschild & Cie. The banking group is to help Greece return to the bond markets. According to the decision published today in Diavgeia system of public spending, the company will receive a total of up …

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Europe needs to change. In many ways. This was said several times on the occasion of the 60th birthday and the celebrations of the Rome Declaration on Saturday. The EU leaders said it. And thousands of Europeans who took to the streets. Europe – the European Union, that is – …

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President Karolos Papoulias raised the issue of World War II reparations to his German counterpart Joachim Gauck currently on a 3-day official visit to Athens. But as expected, Gauck repeated the official legal position of Berlin and promised to express his Karolos Papoulias told Gauck hat Greece has not dropped …

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