October 29, 2021
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
“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 …
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October 22, 2021
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
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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September 24, 2021
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Former European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker has criticized outgoing German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s reaction to Greece’s debt crisis, saying that her “hesitations” and “reluctance” undermined efforts to deal with the situation. “I think her biggest failure was the reluctance she showed during the Greek crisis because of her hesitations and …
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June 25, 2021
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED, Tourism
Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron blasted Greece and other tourism-dependent nations for freely accepting visitors who were inoculated with less effective Chinese and Russian vaccines, signaling the possibility of additional curbs on travel ahead of the peak tourist season. During a summit of European Union leaders behind closed doors in …
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February 26, 2021
FEATURED, Politics, Tourism, World
Digital vaccination certificates enabling people to travel in Europe despite the coronavirus pandemic will probably be available before the summer, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said after a virtual EU summit on Thursday. Germany was one of the opponents of the certificate. “Everyone agreed that we need a digital vaccination certificate,” …
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September 23, 2020
FEATURED, Turkey-GR
During a video-conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and European Council President Charles Michel on Tuesday, Turkish President Recep Tayip Erdogan put on the table a list of demands that would “facilitate” him to defuse tensions with Greece. He said that Turkey is ready to launch exploratory talks with Greece …
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August 21, 2020
FEATURED, World
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 …
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August 20, 2020
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Greece managed to draw the attention of its European partners to the tense situation in the East Mediterranean Sea and Turkey’s aggressiveness and to press them to take position on Turkey. After the extraordinary teleconference of the European Council focusing on the situation in Belarus on Wednesday, Greek Prime Minister …
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March 4, 2020
World
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is sending 32 million euros to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan: the money is supposed to help the Turkish Coast Guard to stop more migrants who want to enter the EU. Germany claims the “state interest of Germany” as the reason for the generous present. The German …
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January 27, 2020
Greece
German ruling party CDU has criticized Greece over a low rate of deportation of migrants to Turkey. The criticism came by Thorsten Frei, vice-chief of the conservative CDU/CSU parliamentary group and spokesman on migration issues. He accused Greece of “administrative failure.” “The previous year, the number of arrivals in Greece …
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January 23, 2020
Greece
German Chancellor Angela Merkel praised Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis saying that is in implementing really intensive reforms. And she said that just when Greeks thought that according to his own statements, the PM is raising pensions and wages, cuts taxes to business and employees, grants 2,000 euros to newborns …
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August 29, 2019
Greece
Economy, investments, primary surpluses and migration were high on the agenda of Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and German Chancellor Angela Markel in Berlin on Thursday. Merkel and Mitsotakis have meet several times in the past but it is the first time the Chancellor welcomed Mitaotakis as Prime Minister. “Changes …
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June 5, 2019
Greece
An epic moment with the President of the Hellenic Republic Prokopis Pavlopoulos. At the D Day celebrations in Portsmouth, the Greek president found himself sitting between two remarkable ladies: the most powerful woman Angela Merkel and the wife of the most powerful man, Melania Trump. A little further on the …
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May 24, 2019
Greece
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, …
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January 12, 2019
Greece, Politics
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 …
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January 10, 2019
Greece, Politics
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>, …
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January 9, 2019
Editor
“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 …
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October 29, 2018
World
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday she would not seek re-election as party chairwoman and that her fourth term as chancellor would be her last, heralding the end of a 13-year era in which she has dominated European politics. Merkel, 64, has been chairwoman of her conservative Christian Democrats …
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October 5, 2018
Economy
Germany says Nein to freezing of further pension cuts and calls on Greece to stick to the reforms path as agreed in summer with the completion of the third bailout program. It was the press office of Chancellor Angela Merkel that sent the dry message following a question by Greek …
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September 3, 2018
Politics, World
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is going to visit capital of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Skopje on 8 September. Merkel’s visit coincides with the FYROM’s Independence Day. Prime Minister Zoran Zaev was apparently surprised by the news and said that he hoped that Meriel would arrive on Saturday in …
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