Finance Ministry

 Finance Ministry?s state revenues and spending projections point to likely gap of 1 bln euros by end-March

By Sotiris Nikas

Euro zone officials played down plans submitted by cash-strapped Greece to its international creditors in a bid to secure fresh funds, a day after Athens' outspoken finance minister irked EU partners by raising the prospect of a referendum.
   

Protestors who stand at the front of a demonstration in which public and private goods are damaged will be forced to pay more compensation for damaged property than those at the back, according to an Interior Ministry circular.

Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis hinted at the possible holding of referendum or early election in case the Eurozone rejects the country's debt renegotiation plans.

Varoufakis said this in an interview for Italian daily Corriere della Sera on Sunday, daily Kathimerini reports.

New Democracy?s parliamentary spokesman Kyriakos Mitsotakis has accused Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis of being a danger to Greece.

The Finance Ministry was forced on Sunday to deny a report in Corierre della Serra newspaper that Varoufakis had claimed the government would call a referendum on euro membership if its eurozone partners reject its reform proposals.

Istanbul is boosting state income by bringing in nearly half of all tax revenues collected by the Treasury, according to figures released by the Finance Ministry.

Istanbul single-handedly contributed a sweeping 46.07 percent of the entire state budget with 185 billion Turkish Liras ($71 billion at the current exchange rate) in 2014.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - President of the Northern Mitrovica Municipal Assembly Ksenija Bozovic stated on Friday that the accounts of four northern Kosovo municipalities with majority Serb population have been blocked for a week now without any explanation or written notification by the Pristina government.

According to the Greek Finance Ministry, the first 310 million euros installment of a loan from the International Monetary Fund will be repaid today.

Citing an anonymous Government source, Reuters news agency reported on Friday that "the payment of 310 million euros has been made, with a Friday value date."

European officials are concerned that not enough preparation work is being done to pave the way for Greece to submit six reform proposals to Monday?s Eurogroup and then secure part of the 7.2 billion euros in remaining bailout loans.

Bulgaria's top judicial body has rejected the resignation of Petyo Petyov, who heads the Sofia Investigative Service.

The motion was tabled on Thursday morning by Chief Prosecutor Sotir Tsatsarov, but was turned down by an overwhelming majority at the Supreme Judicial Council (VSS): 12-4, 2 abstained.