Athens says Imia sovereignty beyond doubt after Ankara challenge Athens issued a stern message to Ankara on Saturday, stressing that the Imia islets are Greek and there is no question about their sovereignty. Erdogan slams Greece, EU over Turkish soldiers, says case of Greek soldiers with judiciary In comments on Sunday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Edogan hit out at both Greece and the European Union for pressing for the return of two Greek soldiers that have been in Turkish custody since crossing the Turkish border last month, noting that Ankara is still awaiting the return of eight Turkish soldiers who fled an attempted coup two years ago and are seeking asylum in Greece. UN envoy: difficulties remain in ‘Macedonia’ name dispute The United Nations mediator seeking to end a long-running dispute over the name of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, said on Friday difficult issues remained and talks with Greek and FYROM officials would continue. PM Tsipras: ‘A clean and final exit from the memorandums in the summer’ Now is the time to plan firm foundations that will take Greece forward into the future, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said late on Saturday, during the closing address of the 12 Conference for the Reconstruction of Production in Eastern Attica. Problems to Thessaloniki water supply continue on Sunday The northern Greek city of Thessaloniki continued to experience problems with its water supply on Sunday, despite the completion of repairs to the Aravyssos pipeline – one of the main pipelines providing water to Greece’s second-largest urban centre. http://int.ert.gr/problems-to-thessaloniki-water-supply-continue-on-sunday/ Two criteria for early tax discount cut Following International Monetary Fund spokesman Gerry Rice’s statements on Thursday, eurozone sources believe the IMF will insist on bringing the reduction of the income tax discount forward to January 2019. Draft law on sale of PPC lignite units to be tabled in parliament in the following days The draft law on tender for the sale of the lignite units of PPC in May, the completion of the sale will be concluded in October and will safeguard the job positions for six years, will be tabled in the next days in parliament. Cashless transactions continue to gain ground Card transactions increased some 40 percent in the first quarter of the year compared to the same period in 2017. TAIPED chief: Sell-offs target ‘high but feasible’ Greece’s target of 2 billion euros in privatization revenues this year is high but can be met, the chairman of the country’s privatizations agency TAIPED said on Friday. |
SUNDAY PAPERS
KATHIMERINI: The Institutions blocked the government’s ‘scam’ regarding estimated real-estate values [and the introduction of a supplementary tax]
TO VIMA: Tsipras’ dark plan. Slander operation by the PM’s office.
REAL NEWS: The grand night of the generals. A war council took place last Tuesday at the Greek Pentagon.
PROTO THEMA: Impasse in the negotiations with Skopje while the ‘heat’ in the Aegean Sea increases
AVGI: The ‘Macedonian’ issue is a catalyst for political developments
MONDAY PAPERS:
ETHNOS: Ministry of Finance will facilitate citizens in reaching tax-exemption quotas through receipts
TA NEA: Triple Turkish provocation
EFIMERIDA TON SYNTAKTON: Scandalous shutdown of hugely profitable canteens in the Greek army and state offices
KONTRA NEWS: Our creditors are crucifying our bankers
DIMOKRATIA: Forest maps turn up the heat on illegal constructions
NAFTEMPORIKI: Greece’s exit from the bailout programmes explained
LIBERALS FIGHTING BACKIN HUNGARY: Viktor Orbán’s re-election next weekend seemed undoubted for months — until polls, and a recent local election, suggested that if turnout is high, victory might not be so secure. Here are POLITICO’s must-read stories for the last week of campaigning. IN POLAND: European Council President Donald Tusk said this weekend he’ll resume the battle with the governing Law and Justice party after his term in Brussels ends. “I’m not going to retire,” he told Polish news channel TVN24. “In 2019 I will be back in Poland and let no one think that I will only watch TV.” He added: “I hope that Poles who dream about stable democracy and the rule of law will be able to win future elections — I will be the happiest man on earth if this materializes. If things go differently, I do not exclude anything.” He spoke at the European Center of Solidarity, a museum and cultural center built at the historic Gdańsk shipyard, where the Solidarność movement was created after a strike in 1980. IN JAPAN: Prime Minister Shinzō Abe embraced Donald Trump faster, and with more warmth, than any other foreign leader. He’s starting to regret it, writes William Pesek for POLITICO. IN BERLIN: Wolfgang Schäuble, president of the Bundestag still hopes the U.K. might eventually change its mind on Brexit: “I do have hope that the Brits will remain in the EU,” he told Funke media group, saying that European solidarity with the U.K. after the Salisbury attack showed “how good it is to not stand alone in the world.” Liverpool manager Jürgen Klopp, a German national, joined the chorus. Oh, really? Opinion: Global Britain will need the EU, writes Vijay Eswaran. IN BRUSSELS: Julian King, the EU security commissioner, is demanding a “clear game plan” for how social media companies are allowed to operate during election periods, the FT reports, citing a letter from the U.K. commissioner to Mariya Gabriel, his colleague responsible for the digital economy. IN MUNICH: New Bavarian state premier Markus Söder made a few changes to the set-up of his government, focusing on housing construction — the lack of which is evident in Munich and other bigger cities — and announcing the establishment of a new Bavarian border police (even though this is a federal competence), among other rather practical things. His predecessor Horst Seehofer, now Germany’s interior minister, meanwhile started his new job in Berlin at the other end of the spectrum available to policymakers — by giving interviews stating that Islam doesn’t belong to Germany (on the question of how much millions of Muslims belong to Germany or don’t, he was silent) — and presenting a leadership team for his ministry that reflects a certain social conservatism that might or might not help his party’s fortunes. (The brown bear, though, belongs to Germany, Seehofer said this weekend, in an equally general judgment. But then, we also learned recently, the Iberian lynx have proved that they belong to Spain.) |