Greece

The Vice President of the European Commission, Valdis Dombrovskis warned that the salvage of Greek banks could be delayed. In an interview to financial site ‘Bloomberg’ Dombrovskis underlined the urgency of implementing the rescue plan for Greece and its banking system, stressing that the review of the 4 major Greek banks was linked to the country’s bailout plan.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has a busy day on Tuesday, his third in New York. On the sidelines of the 70th UN General Assembly he is scheduled to have a number of meetings:

On Monday night, Thomas Liakounakos, aged 67, and a retired former high-ranking military officer were taken into custody. The high-profile businessman was apprehended from his home in upmarket Psychiko after an arrest warrant was issued in relation to charges stemming from a case involving a contract with Swedish multi-national Ericsson.

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras continued his high-profile meetings in the “Big Apple” on Monday, with UN Chief Ban Ki moon and Cyprus President Nikos Anastasiades next up on Tuesday.

Tsipras’ Monday “highlights” included a brief conversation with Raul Castro, Cuba’s “Commandante No. 2″, who invited him to the island nation, as well as with Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff.

One of the second Tsipras government’s first measures, a seemingly innocuous change in the exemption rule for school religious studies classes, has caused the first full-blown reaction — and that’s before any of the “tax raid” measures come into effect next month.

Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos predicted the Greek economy would return to economic growth in the second quarter of 2016 in an interview to Financial Times. Tsakalotos clarified that this would be possible only if the first review of the Greek bailout plan by the EU institutions was positive.

Major Greek opposition party New Democracy (ND) released a statement criticizing Greek PM Alexis Tsipras’s speech at the 70th annual UN assembly on the debt issue. In the harsh statement, ND blasted Tsipras for picking the wrong forum to bring up Greece’s debt issue accusing him of ‘pleading for a debt arrangement’.

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Government spokeswoman Olga Gerovassili said that Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’ participation in the 70th Session of the UN General Assembly is an opportunity for a series of meetings within the framework of the government’s multi-dimensional policy.

Central Macedonian Region Chief Apostolos Tzitzikostas, aged 37, announced his candidacy for the leadership of the New Democracy (ND) Party on Sunday night. The young man’s bid for the leadership, following that of Kyriakos Mitsotakis, aged 47, lowers the age bar for the party’s control from current leader Evangelos Meimarakis, aged 62.