Chivalry

The French and the Greek people have a long-standing mutual respect for one another. This relationship, despite its ups and down, is embedded in the psyche of the two countries. It surfaced again recently when French technocrats offered their expertise to the Greek government to draw up a last minute set of proposals to help the Greeks avert a disorderly exit from the Eurozone.

European Commissioner Jean-Claude Juncker admitted that the ‘hair cuts’ on Cypriot banking deposits by the Eurogroup in 2013 were a wrong move addressing the Cypriot Parliament Friday. He added, however, that Cyprus has managed to bounce back underlining the help the ‘Juncker’ package will offer the country to regain economic growth.

The tragic crime in Srebrenica should not be minimized, but what happened there was not genocide, says Efraim Zuroff.

The director of the Simon Wiesenthal's Israel Office, who was this week visiting Serbia, spoke for B92 TV on Wednesday to say that the mass murder in Srebrenica was characterized as genocide for political reasons.

US President Barack Obama on Tuesday officially welcomed an agreement between Greece and its European creditors, given that his administration has reportedly worked continuously, and behind-the-scene, to press for a deal and avert a possible global economic crisis.

Director of the Israel office of the Simon Wiesenthal Center Efraim Zuroff says that Jews and Serbs were victims of genocide in the NDH.

The Independent State of Croatia (NDH) was a WW2-era Nazi-allied state led by the Ustasha regime that operated death camps, including Jasenovac.

Eurozone leaders made Greece surrender much of its sovereignty to outside supervision on July 13 in return for agreeing to talks on an 86 billion euros bailout to keep the near-bankrupt country in the single currency.

European Council chief Donald Tusk announced a unanimous agreement for Greece at a press conference with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and Eurogroup Chief Jeroen Dijsselbloemm who announced details of the agreement.

“There is no Grexit,” said Juncker.

A personal Tweet by one of three reporters that interviewed German Federal President Joachim Gauck for ZDF television, the journalist noted that the latter said he “cannot imagine a Eurozone without Greece”.

The interview is scheduled to appear on Sunday evening in Germany.

Centrist Potami (River) leader Stavros Theodorakis was received in Brussels on Friday by EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker for a nearly two-hour meeting.

In statements afterwards, Theodorakis told reporters that Juncker believes the last Greek proposal is a “sufficient basis for negotiations”.

Guy Verhofstadt member of the European Parliament and leader of the group of Alliance of Liberals and Democrats (ALDE) expressed his optimism talking to Europe 1 network, Friday about Greece coming up with a reliable set of measures and remaining in the Eurozone. “This morning Greece is much closer to staying in the Eurozone than leaving it”, he said.