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Greek foreign minister due in Berlin ahead of PM
Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias is due to travel to Berlin on Sunday, where he will meet with his German counterpart, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, at a time when relations between the two governments are especially tense due to disagreements over the progress of bailout talks. Bilateral relations are to top the agenda of talks.
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Pol leader quotes Yanis on 'Grexit': ATMs emptied in 20 minutes; clock turned back decades
"In 20 minutes all of the ATMs will have been emptied dry; poverty will have conquered 80% of (Greek) households," was the way centrist Potami leader Stavros Theodorakis described the repercussions of Greece's exit from the eurozone - the financial markets' bogeyman known as "Grexit".
Varoufakis discusses Greek-German relations on his blog
Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis on Friday discussed Greek-German relations on his personal blog. Taking his cue from a recent controversial video, the minister noted that the footage had sparked a ?kerfuffle reflecting the manner in which the 2008 banking crisis began to undermine Europe?s badly designed monetary union, turning proud nations against each other.?
Greece says to respond to EU technical teams in 'constructive spirit'
Greece will respond to a list of requirements on reforms being drawn up by a team of technical experts from its creditors in a "constructive spirit", the Greek finance ministry said in a statement on Friday.
FinMin Varoufakis's blogpost on toxic "finger-pointing" between Greece and Germany
In a new blog post titled "Of Greeks and Germans: Re-imagining our shared future," Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis stressed today the need for Greeks and Germans to stop the blame game and work together.
Read below the full article, as it was published on the Greek FinMin's blog.
Police trace bullying victim's online abusers
Officers of the police's cyber crimes unit have identified three persons suspected of posting abusive online messages against student Vangelis Giakoumakis who killed himself last month a few hundred meters away from his Dairy School dormitory in Ioannina, northern Greece, reports said Friday.
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Ankara wants confidence-building talks in March
Turkey will reserve swaths of Aegean if Athens procrastinates, sources say
Ankara is insisting that Greek and Turkish authorities begin talks on confidence-building measures before the end of this month otherwise it will reserve large swaths of the Aegean for military maneuvers as of April 1, Kathimerini understands.
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Greek coffers running empty bring 'accident' threat closer
By Marcus Bensasson & Nikos Chrysoloras
With Greece?s coffers emptying and payments looming, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras?s government is coming ever closer to a financial day of reckoning.
Greek yields fall, stocks rise after PM Tsipras says reforms coming soon
Greek government bond yields fell and stocks rose on Friday after Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras assured European Union creditors that he would soon present a set of economic reforms to unlock cash and stave off bankruptcy.
Friday's fall in yields at the open was only a fraction of Thursday's sharp rise.
Tsipras assures EU creditors reforms coming to unlock cash
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras assured European Union creditors at late-night crisis talks in Brussels that his leftist-led coalition would present soon a full set of economic reforms in order to unlock cash to stave off bankruptcy.