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A team from the University of Thessaloniki has completed a blueprint for the structural overhaul of the seminary to create living quarters for over 100 students and facilities to host major international conferences.

From elected officials at the top of the administrative pyramid down to the base there is something clearly rotten in the entire structure of the state.

Critics of the Prespa Agreement in Athens maintain that Skopje is in some instances interpreting the accord in a skewed manner.

The centre-left owes a debt of gratitude to SYRIZA because its attempts to pillage it ended up rallying it together.

Since its days in the opposition, SYRIZA confronted the economy with the sole objective of reaping partisan benefits.

Greek Police and Fire Service officials have also been charged in the case, as has a 65-year-old man who was responsible for starting the initial fire in Daou Pentelis.

What is impeding the PM’s plan for a progressive front is the stance of Movement for Change leader Fofi Gennimata and of To Potami leader Stavros Theodorakis

'We are reacting always with prudence and strategic calm to the provocations in the Aegean. The number of violations of our national airspace and territorial waters has reached a high level.'

The government's narrative about a return to normalcy and its handouts are not persuading voters as the vast majority have already made their decisions.

The Health Ministry does not appear to have taken into account crucial privacy issues in its omnibus law on the Individual Electronic Health File.

There is a double minefield on Greece’s path. The economy remains shackled by austerity policies and the danger of fiscal derailment is ever-present.

The report states that while progress was noted in Greece’s implementation of its post-bailout commitments, there are commitments that have yet to be met, most notably in the banking sector.

The total amount of business deposits in January dropped by 1.008bn euros compared to an 862mn euro rise the previous month.

The country’s infrastructure works, including the roads network, are antiquated. Their endurance is minimal and the safety of thousands of citizens is jeopardised.

Critics say the Prespa Agreement leaves plenty of room for misinterpretation and exploitation by forces which wish to stir problems and push for the recognition of a “Macedonian minority in Greece”.

Do the bridge-builders really believe that SYRIZA has rid itself of the odd alliance with its erstwhile partner, Panos Kammenos’  Independent Greeks party?

In an exclusive interview with To Vima, the Harvard economics professor and former IMF chief economist discusses Greece’s growth prospects.

Metropolitan Emmanuel of France tells To Vima that Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomeos granted Autocephaly to Ukraine to preserve unity, debunks theory of Moscow as ‘Third Rome’.

The anarchist group Rouvikonas again displayed its nihilistic practices by attacking a department store on Pireos Street.

Andreas Papandreou came to power by uniting the Greeks, in contrast to Alexis Tsipras who won by dividing and governed with the same divisive rhetoric.

When Greece had 39 deaths from the flu Alternate Health Minister Pavlos Polakis appeared on TV and said 'This is not a catastrophe.'

The Finance Minister said the estimated cost of New Democracy’s announcements so far is 5bn euros in the first year and another 4bn over the next four years and that ND has not said where the money will come from.

At a cabinet meeting yesterday, the PM unleashed yet another attack on the country’s central banker, describing him as an “over-valued technocrat”.

The country is at risk of not receiving the profits – amounting to approximately one billion euros - on Greek bonds held by the European Central Bank.

'I directly call upon the Prime Minister and the government to take action to protect the independence of the Bank of Greece, which is guaranteed by both European and Greek law,' said Greece's central banker.

A government can either succeed or fail in its mission. However, it has no right to transform public life into a cesspool.

Kotzias was the architect of the Prespa Agreement and Kammenos and his Independent Greeks party (then the junior coalition partner) vehemently opposed it.

One cannot but agree that the manner in which certaing Pasok cadres moved to SYRIZA creates the impression that the PM is in panic

One reason the economy must be bolstered is so that the government can place limits on the objectives and behaviours of international players.

Katrougalos succeeded Tsipras who had assumed the foreign affairs portfolio after Nikos Kotzias resigned in October .

The ruling party is beginning to pay the price that other parties paid when SYRIZA in order toremain in power recruited renegade MPs.

It is impermissible for partisan criteria to take precedence over the need of the whole of society to meet the challenges of our era.

The official line of the PM’s office is that the election will be in October, but most analysts are convinced that parliamentary elections will be held along with the other three races.