Greece

As government officials scramble to draft a list of detailed reforms in line with demands by the country?s international creditors, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is due in Berlin on Monday for crucial talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel as concerns grow about Greece?s dwindling cash reserves.

The leaders of debt-wracked Greece and economic powerhouse Germany meet in Berlin March 24 after weeks of bad blood over Athens' debt woes, bitter wartime memories and an offensive hand gesture.
      

Greece expects to reach a cash-for-reforms deal with its creditors in the next 10 days and intends to meet all its payments in June, the government's spokesman said on Friday.

"We think conditions have matured for (talks) to progress further and in the next 10 days, in May, for the deal to be sealed," Gabriel Sakellaridis told Skai TV.

Mount Olympus, the highest mountain in Greece and the second highest mountain in the Balkans, boasts of 52 imposing peaks, deep gorges and exceptional biodiversity.

Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis has put his luxury holiday home in the island of Aegina for 5,000 euros a week, according to an article published on the online edition of Daily Mail newspaper.

Learning World, a series of weekly TV programs on education developed by Word Education Summit for Education (WISE) and Euronews visited Greece to see how the country’s education system is faring amid tough austerity measures.

President of the Republic Prokopis Pavlopoulos ha? a 30-minute private meeting today with Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, ahead of the swearing-in ceremony of four Alternate ministers.

During the meeting, the PM briefed the president on the discussions he held with European leaders in Brussels.

Theodoros Mitrakos is to be sworn in as the new Deputy Governor of the Bank of Greece on Monday.

The swearing-in ceremony will be held before the President of the Republic Prokopis Pavlopoulos at 11.30 and it will be attended by Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis, BoG Governor Yiannis Stournaras and the Bishop of Thermopylae Ioannis.

Opposition parties on Friday reacted with skepticism to the results of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras?s late-night crisis talks with EU officials in Brussels on Thursday.

President of Republic Prokopis Pavlopoulos on Monday, March 23, will visit the city of Kalamata, the second largest city of the Peloponnese, to attend celebrations for the Independence Day.

The Greek President will attend the doxology at the Church of the Holy Apostles, officiated by Metropolitan Chrysostomos of Messinia.