Greece

The US is seeking to block a proposal Gazprom made in Athens on a Greek leg of the so-called "Turkish Stream" pipeline, the Greek Foreign Minister has said.

By Eleni Chrepa

Greece and its creditors haven't discussed having the country miss a payment to the International Monetary Fund or default as agreement over bailout disbursements remains beyond reach, a senior Greek government official said.

Greek PM Tsipras is going to meet with Mrs. Merkel today, bearing an ultimatum: “Agreement, or elections”.

Just a few hours prior to the emergency European leaders summit on migration, Greek Radical Left Coalition (SYRIZA) Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras took to Twitter to express his views in 120 characters?

By Costas Iordanidis

The anniversary of the 1967 colonels? coup clearly inspired Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis to draw present-day parallels with that tragic event.

?The government today faces a new kind of coup, one that is not carried out with tanks but through banks,? he said on Tuesday.

Former Prime Minister Antonis Samaras stressed the need for the coalition to reach a deal with Greece?s lenders in a televised interview, the first since his electoral defeat in January.

Former Greek premier Antonis Samaras said the current leftist SYRIZA government has "fooled the people and will now clash with itself or with Greece's partners", speaking in his first television interview since his New Democracy party lost the Jan. 25 election by coming in second.

The Greek defence minister briefed a relevant Parliament committee on Wednesday over a controversial US$500 million contract awarded directly to a US contractor for the upgrading of five naval support planes kept in ? storage since 2009.

The Financial Times reports that the Greek epic continues in an article titled “Mythology that blocks progress in Greece.” The article states that the Greek drama won’t end well unless “the people involved do not recognize that they are clinging on to myths” and then presents six of these that pose intellectual and emotional obstacles to reaching a solution.

Leonidas Bobolas, CEO and Managing Director of ELLAKTOR S.A., is facing the prosecutor for tax evasion. His name appeared on the Lagarde list and he is being questioned for 2 mln euros worth of tax evasion.