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A resolution of non-performing loans that were issued for borrowers to buy their primary residence was necessary.

Erdogan constantly cultivates the sense of a quest for lost Ottoman grandeur and at the same time he disputes Turkey’s traditional ties with the West.

Essentially, the PM’s team is entertaining the idea of small, manageable clashes with creditors that can be easily resolved with a minor governmental retreat.

Dimitris Tzanakopoulos said that lack of protection from foreclosure was a strategic choice of both New Democracy and Pasok because 'in the world of corrupt vested interests which they defend, the weak and vulnerable are not entitled to protection'.

Hagia Sophia is a UNESCO World Monument and Russia’s Sputnik press agency reported that sources at UNESCO said that the permission of a special committee is required to change the name of a monument.

Who is forcing SYRIZA today to place on its European Parliament ticket a person whose name is inextricably tied with vested interests and state-funded entrepreneurship?

As the painful negotiation with creditors on home foreclosure protection was going on, a minister who seems to ignore the realities came out and spoke of handing out a 250-euro Easter bonus

Turkey’s state-run Anadolu Press Agency cited unnamed sources which denied that the incident occurred and that the Turkish pilots were just doing their job.

In light of the Loizou debacle SYRIZA vetted prospective candidates very carefully in order to avoid yet another fiasco.

'The Aegean is a sacred place for Greece. No one can carve it up and distribute it by saying this is within or outside its limits,' Efthimios Lekkas said, denouncing Tsironis’ statement

The former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff describes the government as a bunch of neo-communists with no respect for Greece's national interests.

Citizens do not forget that it was the ruling party, SYRIZA, which while in the opposition encouraged incidents at parades, the worst of which was the jeering of then president Karolos Papoulias.

That is perhaps the greatest problem of the ruling party. It can no longer stir the masses or revive expectations.

The unveiling of the bronze bust of Nikitaras calls to mind the 1821 Revolution, its heroes, and the fact that many of them were chased and mocked and died as paupers.

Europe as a whole should be concerned, as should Greece in particular which is a country that brings in tourists and exports university students and young scientists

Despite the rosy image of the economic situation that the government is presenting, the fact is that the revenues of a segment of the population are shrinking.

The overarching issue is to find ways to defuse tensions in the Aegean and the Eastern Mediterranean, where Ankara is doing all it can to impede Cyprus’ energy programme.

Government leaks over many months about the jailing of suspects, bank accounts abroad, and the bribery of politicians which will blow the political system out of the water all proved to be nonsense.

This is an image of decline that is confirmed by the UN report on happiness. Our country is becoming ever more poor and unhappy.  Greece fell by three notches in one year, from 79th to 82nd.

The national populists, exploiting in a demagogic manner the real and weighty problems of European unification, deceive and drag down an undemocratic path a large segment of the citizenry of European societies.