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Despite being pressured by the moderator and Zaev to say whether his party will honour the agreement if it comes to power, the main opposition leader refused to answer.

'How can one exclude Turkey from an area in which it has a coastal line of many kilometres?' Katrougalos was quoted by Anadolu as saying.

From the start, many observers noted that even if the Prespa Accord solved the name problem, it created many others because North Macedonia became a state that in all other respects remained 'Macedonian'.

'In Cyprus they are testing our patience because they are violating our rights,' Erdogan declared about the gas and oil exploration programme of the Republic of Cyprus.

In Athens, the Russian state-run Sputnik’s report was viewed as the next stage in Moscow’s fervent opposition to the Prespa Agreement and to North Macedonia’s admission to Nato,

Foreign diplomats – including US Ambassador Pyatt - have expressed concerns over a military “accident” due to the large concentration of firepower, heightened tensions in the region.

Recent comments by Zaev have fueled criticism that the agreement permits Skopje to interpret it as it sees fit.

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.

In Germany, which continued to move not only as a locomotive but as a high-speed train when the rest of the Eurozone was trailing, there are more and more voices supporting an exit from the EU, or Dexit.

The Russian Foreign Ministry said that a viable solution must be found support with broad popular support in FYROM and Greece without external pressures.

“Always a guarantor of peace, The Turkish Army has never harmed civilians, including kids and women and has never had a reputation as such,” the Turkish Defence Ministry said in a statement.

'It [Cyprus] being drawn into U.S. and NATO plans in the eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East will inevitably lead to dangerous and destabilising consequences for Cyprus itself,' warned the Russian Foreign Ministry.

The highest levels of household expenditure were found in Cyprus (76.4% of GDP), Greece (73.0%) and Portugal (68.3%).

Greece is the heaviest taxed country as regards goods and services – VAT and the EFK special consumer tax – and is near the top of the list in terms of income tax.

The leaders of the ring are believed to be a Turkish national, an Arab, and 51-year-old Dimitrios-Rihardos (Greek for Richard) Mylonas (photo), who owns 44 pawn shops around the country

The ECHR decision stated that the imprisonment of the politician aimed at stifling democratic debate and pluralism, and that the case should be adjudicated swiftly.

Greece and Cyprus undertook the task of establishing the school with the assistance of other Nato member-states and European intelligence services.

Ankara intends to submit the issue to the UN Security Council, as if it were Greece and not Turkey that is violating international law.

'Few are receiving the unemployment benefit and the stipend for the long-term unemployed, as they do not meet the preconditions,” said the head of the OAED unemployment bureau

“The extensive reforms Greece has carried out have laid the ground for a sustainable recovery. This must be nurtured and maintained to enable the Greek people to reap the benefits of their efforts and sacrifices,” Moscovici said.

US Ambassador to Athens Geoffrey Pyatt averted a hot clash near Kastelorizi between a Greek frigate and the Turkish seismic research vessel Barbaros Hayreddin Pasha, military analyst Thanasis Drougos revealed/

How can one encourage Greek families to bear more children, when benefits for families with three or more children are viewed as luxury, and have been eliminated?

A glance at the statements and analyses of European politicians and players is enough to realise that we cannot expect substantial changes.

The article notes that 350,000 – 400,000 Greeks, most in their 20’s and 30’s, emigrated mainly to EU countries since 2010