Skai TV

Greece on Wednesday renewed a call to Ankara to respect international treaties, adding that Turkey's "polarizing rhetoric" had increased the country's international isolation.

Speaking on Skai TV Wednesday, government spokesman Dimitris Tzanakopoulos said that Greece's borders were also borders of the European Union," adding that the EU was not playing the role of the arbitrator.

Government spokesman Dimitris Tzanakopoulos on Thursday refuted a comment made earlier in the day by a lawmaker with Independent Greeks (ANEL), the junior coalition partner in the leftist-led government, suggesting "friendly relations" between the administration and Greek-Russian business tycoon Ivan Savvidis.

Greece's left-led government came under fire on Monday morning for fostering a culture of lawlessness after the owner of a soccer club invaded the pitch while armed with a gun on Sunday.

An arrest warrant was issued on Monday against PAOK owner Ivan Savvidis as well as four other people, after the controversial Russian-Greek businessman stormed the pitch.

What is largely missing in Greece, in contrast to other bailed out European countries like Ireland and Spain, is a frank discussion on its own contribution to its economic predicament, former Eurogroup Working Group (EWG) president Thomas Weiser told Skai TV in an interview aired on Tuesday night.

The head of the European Stability Mechanism (ESM), Klaus Regling, told Skai TV in an interview aired on Tuesday night that Greece can look forward to a "clean exit" from the bailout when it expires in August but needs to be aware of the risks of volatile markets.

Footage revealed by Kathimerini shows the moment when the Turkish patrol boat Umut rammed the Greek Coast Guard vessel 090 Gavdos off the islets of Imia late on Monday.

Although the incident did not result in any injuries, it served to illustrate rising tensions over the islets which were the focus of dispute that brought Greece and Turkey close to war in 1996.

When asked in an interview on Skai TV on Friday morning why the state seems so absent from the center of the Greek capital, Athens Mayor Giorgos Kaminis answered in two words: incompetence and indifference. He didn't expand on the topic, just said what he wanted to say as briefly as possible.

Workers at two Public Power Corporation units that being are being put up for sale as part of the government's plans to privatize 40 percent of the state-owned company's lignite-powered plants will be holding two rallies this week and warn of more action to oppose the move.

Defense Minister Panos Kammenos on Friday said he was "politically opposed" to a decision by prison authorities to grant Dimitris Koufodinas, a leading member of guerrilla group November 17, a 48-hour furlough, adding however that the the government must not interfere with the work of the judiciary.