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Former prime minister Antonis Samaras believes that political reasons prevented the troika from concluding the bailout review with his government in late 2014 and granting Greece the debt relief it had been promised.

Prominent New Democracy MP and party vice-president Adonis Georgiadis on Friday posted a statement on Facebook to apologize to the Jewish people for his intolerance towards them in the past and for his antisemitic views.

Major opposition party New Democracy MP, and shadow Minister of Labour and Social Security Yiannis Vroutsis submitted a question to parliament regarding the payment of lump sum benefits to 253 beneficiaries by the state.

The prosecutor in the trial of the 2015 death of Vangelis Giakoumakis in the northwestern city of Ioannina has recommended the acquittal of a former director of the school where the student was studying and the head of the dorm where he was staying, who were facing charges of negligence, as well as Christos Markoyiannakis, a former deputy minister who was accused of trying to protect the studen

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu suggested on Wednesday that Ankara intends to abide by the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne, which decided the sovereignty of many Aegean islands, despite President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's recent criticism of the agreement.

The heads of Greece's top courts have hit back at criticism regarding their meeting with Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Thursday, when he pledged to protect their salaries, but the Union of Judges and Prosecutors has insisted that only it has the right to discuss pay issues on behalf of judicial officials.

Greek conservative lawmaker, George Koumoutsakos, suffered facial bruises but did not need to be hospitalized after being beaten by suspected far-right activists during a protest on Thursday.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is in Parliament to respond to a question tabled by main opposition New Democracy MP George Koumoutsakou on Greece’s refugee and migrant policy.

Question

The election committee of New Democracy will reconvene at 09.30 on Saturday to decide on whether to accept the rejected fourth candidacy of New Democracy MP Adonis Georgiadis, after disapproving comments from all three candidates and the former ND leader Antonis Samaras.

Greece has completed five years of austerity just as popular “Game of Thrones” is in its fifth series and both the Greek crisis and the popular series have a great deal in common with politics, diplomatic games and danger lurking ahead. Of course, not even George R. R. Martin’s fantasy could have come up with as many cliff-hankers as Greece’s very real turmoil.