FinMin Tsakalotos: “We need an honest broker, representing different views from different political perspectives, to examine the economic and social impact of the programme”, he said, referring to the new EP working group on macro-economic adjustment programmes.”
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Sir Suma Chakrabarti, President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), is paying his first official visit to Greece since the Bank started investing in the country last year.
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Norwegian Minister for the European Economic Area and European Affairs, Elisabeth Aspaker met yesterday with her Greek counterpart Nikos Xydakis at the Foreign Ministry. The meeting between the two Ministers was carried out within the framework of Aspaker’s scheduled visit to Greece at the Foreign Ministry.
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The Ambassador of South Africa, H.E. Marthinus Christoffel Johannes Van Schalkwyk, spoke to EmbassyNews.net about the strong economic and cultural ties between the two countries and commented on Greece’s stance towards the refugee crisis: “We are looking at the situation with sympathy. So far the Greek government has not gone to the extreme and that is a good sign”.
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Deputy Foreign Minister for International Economic Relations, Dimitris Mardas, accompanied by the CEO of Enterprise Greece and executives of the Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund (HRADF), was in Paris on 17 and 18 February for meetings with French officials and entrepreneurs.
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Thomsen: “No amount of pension reforms will make Greece’s debt sustainable without debt relief, and no amount of debt relief will make Greece’s pension system sustainable without pension reforms. Both need to come about.”
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“Progress has been achieved on important issues, but further work is still needed in a number of areas,” the head of the Eurogroup Jeroen Dijsselbloem told a news conference at the end of a meeting of Eurozone finance ministers in Brussels.
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DRAGHI: The policy challenges we face are fourfold. They relate to: the global environment; the situation of the financial system; the economic and fiscal policies of Member States; and the political uncertainty surrounding the European project.
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STOURNARAS: “Greece is in the frontline because we have thousands of kilometers of coastline, so it is very difficult to control the refugee wave. Now, the analysis we have done and we have presented abroad, is that from the refugee problem the benefits mainly go to the host countries and the costs mainly stay with the transit countries…”
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China’s Cosco Group will obtain 67 pct of Pireaus Port (OLP) after the company submitted an improved offer of EUR 368.5 million (€22/per share) Greece’s privatization fund (HRADF) said in a news release.
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