Panos Tsakloglou

The government has made significant improvements in awarding provisional pensions with a package of legislative moves in 2020, Deputy Labor and Social Security Minister Panos Tsakloglou said.

The public fallout between Canadian mining company Eldorado Gold and the Greek government after the prior’s announcement on Monday it would suspend its large investment in the north of the country due to the government’s delays in issuing routine permits has put the leftist-led SYRIZA government at the centre of a storm of media attention, bringing up questions about whether it honestly promote

By Vassilis Ziras

Greece’s representative at the Euro Working Group found himself at the receiving end of strong criticism on Friday for the government’s role in the departure of Haris Theoharis from the post of general secretary for public revenues.

Greece will put the issue of further debt relief on the agenda at the May 5 Eurogroup, Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras told businessmen in Athens on Monday.

Greece made its first official request on Thursday for further debt relief as the Euro Working Group (EWG) met in Brussels to rubber-stamp the 2013 primary surplus and approve the release of another 6.3 billion euros in bailout funding.