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International media such as Bloomberg correctly note that normalcy is returning to our country and that the change of government contributed greatly to improving the climate.

The PPC crisis must be addressed with the consensus that an issue of national import demands.

Avramopoulos stressed that cooperation with Turkey is essential and that good cooperation will yield positive results.

In order for the country to transcend the crisis on a solid footing it must definitively abandon the dysfunctions of the past.

According to the OECD, Greece has one of the most centralised educational systems in the world, and that is reflected at all levels of the system.

To avoid the errors of the past the current government must move swiftly to address the deficiencies left behind by previous ones.

Streets in the area were dotted with uprooted pine trees and overturned motorcycles. Wooden rooftops were torn off and dumped on beaches.

It requires incentives to lure back the many Greek businesses that were forced to move to neighbouring countries to find a better tax environment.

Ministers were given detailed information on how the work of ministries will be monitored and the collaboration of the various levels of the state bureaucracy.

One such hot potato is banks’ non-performing loans (NPLs) and another is the Public Power Corporation (PPC).

SYRIZA propaganda’s last stand.

The PM’s personal ambitions concern the entire country. His wager is a wager that concerns the social whole.

Ankara is challenging Greee’s sovereign rights in the continental shelf and EEZ of the Greeek island of Kastelorizo

Immediately after the ceremony Mitsotakis walked to the PM’s Maximos Mansion offices next door where outgoing PM Alexis Tsipras briefed him on critical current affairs of state.

'I am committed to fewer taxes, many investments, for good and new jobs, and growth which will bring better salaries and higher pensions in an efficient state' Mitsotakis said.

The cabinet is scheduled to be sworn in on 9 July and the first cabinet meeting is scheduled for 10 July.

'Today we Greeks have a duty to honour our highest right as citizens. We are taking the fate of Greece in our hands and we are choosing the future of our children,' Marinakis said.

Vangelis Marinakis, owner of Olympiacos FC, sent a unity message with regards to today’s general elections in Greece.

Mitsotakis has indicated that he is prepared to tap technocrats and individuals who are not members of the party to assume cabinet posts.

The apparent aim of the government’s plan was to lower the level of university faculties to achieve parity with tertiary technical schoolS and that entailed a lowering of quality of the educational offering.

The Republic of Cyprus has said that a proportional amount of the island’s gas and oil wealth will be set aside for the Turkish-Cypriots pending a settlement.

What was going on behind closed doors and what was being written on computers which the next government must not see?

'If he wins, Kyriakos Mitsotakis will have to grapple with everything that Alexis Tsipras omitted: An almost bankrupt Public Power Corporation, a problematic public sector, and non-performing loans,' the German daily states in a news analysis.

In the eyes of many, the 7 July parliamentary elections signal not only a handover of governmental power, but also a return to normalcy.

Appeals soon became Dimitriou’s specialisation. Three times she appealed the acquittals of ex-ELSTAT chief Georgiou by the Athens Appellate Court Council, bringing back felony charges.

The warnings that the Bank of Greece issues due to its institutional role should be viewed as necessary, and not as hostile acts as the government viewed them over the last four years.

Lebedev’s first attempt to do business in Greece came in 2013 when Russian companies sought to acquire DEPA (Public Gas Corporation of Greece)-DESFA (Hellenic Gas Transmission System Operator SA) without results at the time.

If there are only six parties that manage to enter parliament, then New Democracy will quite possibly be able to secure single-party rule.

'It is my conviction that this channel of communication must remain open. We want to reduce tensions as an accumulation of tensions can lead to escalation,' said Evangelos Apostolakis.

One hopes that 2019 will not be like 2009 or 2015 and that the political system has learned its lesson, albeit at a high cost.

Will citizens return to the polls en masse just 40 days after the European Parliament election or will they choose to take to the beaches?

'Mr. Mitsotakis is now telling us ‘Mitsotakis or chaos.’ He is crudely blackmailing the Greek people but they are not buying it. They want political stability and not adventures,' the Movement for Change leader declared.

The state takes 40 percent in taxes and insurances contributions from the income of taxpayers who declare 20,000 euros in earnings annually.