The reforms to be carried out by the Greek government may directly affect tourism. In exchange for financial assistance from the European Union, Greece will have to implement a series of tough reforms. These will include tax increases, which will affect the tourism industry: for cafes and restaurants, the tax will increase ...
Eurozone leaders reached a new agreement at an emergency summit on the Greek crisis. The first messages about this appeared on Twitter from the summit participants in Brussels. “Agreement,” reads a tweet from Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel. Following this, the President of the European Council Donald Tusk announced...
The US and NATO are concerned about the secret ties between the new Greek government and the Kremlin, which have intensified amid the financial collapse of Greece. “The current thoughts coming out of Athens look like they were written by the Russian intelligence service, and perhaps they are,” said...
The crisis in Greece will have serious consequences for the Georgian economy. Both Georgian experts and politicians speak about this. According to the National Bank of Georgia, Greece has consistently ranked second in terms of the number of remittances over the past eight years. So in ...
“No one knows how the endless conflict between Athens and the European leaders who control its spending will turn out. But in Kyiv, another European capital caught in the grip of debt negotiations, one thing is clear: the Ukrainian government does not want to end up like Greece - with years of wrangling with...
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and Russian President Vladimir Putin held telephone conversations, during which they discussed the referendum that took place on Sunday and the “further development of Russian-Greek cooperation.” According to the Kremlin press service, the initiative to talk with Putin came from the Greek authorities. "Vladimir Putin...
Today, July 5, a referendum was held in Greece on the terms of debt repayment and international assistance to the country, which international creditors - the European Union and the European Central Bank - insist on. The Greek government advised citizens to vote against the creditors' proposals. The turnout in the referendum was 50 percent.…
The crowdfunding site IndieGoGo, initiated by Briton Tom Feeney, is collecting donations for the restoration of the Greek economy. At the time of writing, users have donated about one hundred thousand euros in less than three days. "I'm not kidding. Crowdfunding can really help. You just need to get together and...
Greece will not pay 1,54 billion euros to the International Monetary Fund on June 30, which will lead to the country's default, writes The Wall Street Journal, citing a source in the Greek government. Note that Athens could have announced a default today if it had not paid a tranche in the amount of ...
European leaders treat Ukraine like another Greece, and this is wrong. So says the famous American billionaire and philanthropist George Soros. “They (European leaders - Ed.) treat Ukraine as another Greece: a country with financial problems -...