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'The EU perspective is very present. The Council last year set forth a clear path toward the opening of accession talks in June, 2019.'

Amvrosios exhorted the faithful to “spit upon” LGBTQ people.

If there are no objections, the requisite protocol will be tabled in the parliaments of all member-states for ratification.

For those under the age of 25 there was a sub-minum wage of 510 euros a month which was abolished today by the cabinet.

The weight of Nato's planning has shifted to our country with the unconditional consent of the Greek government and to the three countries of the so-called Western Balkans – Albania, Kosovo, and Skopje.

Greece's self-proclaimed left-wing government is aligning itself with the right-wing and far right government of Austria and the populist-extreme right coalition that is governing Italy.

Isolated from the Greek people, burdened with politico-ideological fixations, and with a limited understanding of the contemporary world, Mr. Tsipras cannot keep up with international trends.

This chasm between the country’s name on the one hand and its ethnicity and language on the other leaves a bitter taste for almost all Greek citizens

The agreement recognises that that country is inhabited by Macedonians and not North Macedonians and that they speak Macedonian and not a South Slavic language.

The government is signaling that it is all right if creditors are dissatisfied with the fact that it will not be able to meet a series of existing commitments by a 15 February deadline.

“I shall fight with all my might to temper the negative consequences that will certainly arise from a problematic agreement. Today is a difficult, sad day for Greece. '

The agreement re-names the country Republic of North Macedonia and aims to settle issues of language, culture, and identity.

Asked if New Democracy will govern better or worse than SYRIZA 30.6 percent said it would do worse or probably worse, but 47.4 percent ND would do better or probably better.

'You accuse us of ceding [the status of] a people. Mr. Mitsotakis, you cannot cede something that you do not have. We did not have a Macedonian language.'

“Today they sent me a video which unfortunately we didn’t have the time to screen. It is characteristic and very humorous and concerns the government and what it was saying before being elected about the port of Piraeus, and how it did the opposite.”

It is the government above all which should know that a lack of information in the parliamentary process constitutes a lack of democracy.

The report of creditors will determine the stance of the markets and the return of about 700mn euros in profits of eurozone central banks from Greek bonds.

Apostolakis warned that Greece and the region are at a critical geopolitical juncture that requires constant, heightened vigilance.

'We do not permit the neo-Nazis and murderers of Pavlos Fyssas [a Greek antifascist rapper murdered by Golden Dawn] to defend the Constitution., said ex-justice minister Stavros Kontonis.

Skopje says that the amendments will be incorporated in the country’s basic law once the Greek Parliament approves the protocol for FYROM’s admission to Nato.