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Petsitis was the inseparable comrade of Digital Policy Minister Nikos Pappas (considered by many to be PM Alexis Tsipras’ alter-ego) who today is feverishly distancing himself from his old schoolmate,

The management and shareholders of Diamond S Shipping ring the NYSE opening bell at the start of trading

Tirana is giving the Greeks’ properties to the Albanian Ministry of Tourism for commercial development, based on the 21 November, 2018 Decision 708 of the Council of Ministers.

Digital Policy Minister Nikos Pappas, Tsipras' right-hand-man, had repeatedly tried to dissociate Petsitis’ access to the PM’s office from the lawyers for Lavrentiadis’ offshore companies,

'The government in an effort to change the composition of the Commission and to render it dysfunctional or completely inert unilaterally added five members of a single community (LGBTQ) and two more members in addition to the existing one from the Roma Community, violating every notion of equality,'

SYRIZA ignored the fundamental political principle that bridges are built through agreement on a political programme and not by political pillaging.

After a ten-year crisis, Greece offers first-class investment opportunities. The country has the requisite infrastructure, human capital, and natural environment, and values have dropped dramatically.

"The content of the Enhanced Surveillance Report of 27 February 2019 and its subsequent update will also be used by the Eurogroup to discuss the release of a first tranche of policy-contingent debt measures linked to the implementation of specific policies,"

'The very strong business delegation yesterday [with Tsipras in Skopje] reflects the very strong economic relationship between the two countries,' Yorgos Stathakis said.

A segment of the Greek press and of the opposition has suggested that Petsitis was SYRIZA’s “cashier” or bag man, interceding between the government and powerful business interests.

SYRIZA once screamed with righteous indignation when two university students in 2013 lost their lives - from a fire caused by a coal-burning heater as their electricity had been cut off – but no one was moved by the death yesterday of a 38-year-old man killed in a fire caused by candles

With over four million citizens – professionals and businessmen – with delinquent debts, one can easily surmise the dire straits in which a large swathe of Greek society finds itself.

'The agreement provides for the creation of a task force that will be called upon to thrash out these issues. We have some people in Greek Macedonia who do not support the Prespa Agreement but who for many years traded here [in North Macedonia]. They are hypocrites,” Tsipras declared.

The Guardian’s report also referred to the widespread popular disapproval of the accord in both countries and that the two leaders are touting the trade and other benefits that they say will result from the normalisation of the two countries’ relations.

The emotional framework may well determine Erdogan's future behaviour. It will quite possibly resemble the behaviour of a wounded beast, which in political terms could result in a new round of provocations, violations, and claims.

Once again, newspapers and journalists who reveal the wretched conditions in jails are to blame, and not the ministry that is responsible for the security of prisons and inmates.

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has refused to back down from Ankara’s planned purchase of a Russian S-400 missile defense system that the United States has said would compromise the security of F-35 aircraft.

On the crucial economic front, Zaev said that North Macedonia will have enormous benefits from the implementation of the Prespa Accord.

Tsipras said the hirees will be highly experienced firefighters who will be incorporated immediately in the 2019 fire prevention and firefighting plans.

The Bank of Greece rang the alarm bells over the danger of fiscal derailment due to Greece’s Council of State rulings which deemed unconstitutional earlier pension cuts and the abolition of holiday bonuses.