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Greece's central bank has slashed growth projections for the Greek economy to 0 percent from a previously estimated 2.4 percent this year from the impact of the coronavirus outbreak, it said on Friday.

The Eurogroup has postponed the "battle of forecasts" on the Greek budget until after the European elections. On June 5, the report of the European Commission on the third post-bailout assessment will reflect its own estimate of the Greek primary surplus (and the recent voting of measures for 2019). However, the big battle will take place this fall.

Remarks by Nikos Kotzias during the handover ceremony at the Greek Foreign Ministry last month, when the departing minister said that Athens had plans for the extension of its territorial waters in the Ionian Sea coupled with straight baseline delimitations (or bay-closing lines), generated many reactions and articles on the issues of maritime borders and the continental shelf/exclusive economi