Kathimerini

Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos arrived in Brussels for Monday's Eurogroup meeting with all but two of 110 prior actions complete, Kathimerini understands.

According to a compliance report seen by Kathimerini, Greek authorities have enforced 108 structural and economic reforms from a list of 110.

Parliament Speaker Nikos Voutsis on Sunday expressed his sorrow at the death of Michalis Katsigeras, the veteran Kathimerini journalist who passed away at the age of 72.

The heart and soul of Kathimerini, the person who through many decades embodied the history of the paper, Michalis Katsigeras, has died, leaving a void that will be difficult if not impossible to fill.

Greek authorities investigate the death of a Bulgarian, the Kathimerini newspaper reported.

The man's body was found on Thursday in the northern town of Serres in a house by a Bulgarian who was looking for him. The initial assessment of the local pathoanatoma is that the man has received head injuries which most likely led to his death.

The University of the Peloponnese has postponed plans to award Russian President Vladimir Putin an honorary doctorate next week, Kathimerini has learnt.

Sources said the ceremony, which had been planned to take place in Kalamata next Thursday, was postponed because Putin could not attend the event.

The University of the Peloponnese is set to postpone plans to award Russian President an honorary doctorate, Kathimerini has learnt.

Sources said that university officials will propose the postponement of the ceremony, which had been planned to take place in Kalamata next Thursday because Putin cannot attend the event.

Just 16 percent of asylum seekers who undertook the journey to Greece can be returned to Turkey under Greek law and European directives, Maria Stavropoulou, the former head of the Greek asylum service, has told Kathimerini.

Panayiotis Karvounis, the former head of the European Commission's Representation in Athens, is appointed Special Advisor to Pierre Moscovici, the European Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs.

The position is considered crucial due to the decisions the Commissioner has to coordinate in the next few months regarding Greece's issues.

A prosecutors' report alleging that Swiss drugs manufacturer Novartis bribed Greek government officials has turned into a headache for the leftist-led government with SYRIZA's political council failing again on Thursday night to decide on the next step. 

Former deputy premier Evangelos Venizelos told a Greek-French forum in Athens titled "A New Hope for Greece" that the country is heading for a "long-lasting memorandum" after August, meaning a monitoring program without the benefits of cheap borrowing from the European Stability Mechanism.