How the world sees Greece
Work is proceeding at a rapid rate to prepare the ancient Greek palace of Philip II at Aigai, in the Pella region, for public access in May, according to the Athens Macedonian News Agency (AMNA). With its walls restored to a height of 1.6 meters and ...
 |
| READ THE ORIGINAL POST AT greece.greekreporter.com |
The European Union will recommend starting accession talks with Albania and the Republic of Macedonia, widening the bloc’s push into the Western Balkans, according to Enlargement Commissioner Johannes Hahn. “The EU Commission will soon recommend, most likely by the summer, that member states begin accession negotiations with Albania and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia,” Hahn said in an interview with Germany’s Die Welt newspaper published Thursday. “We believe that both countries have made important reforms in the past, and are thus qualified for this step.” The Republic of Macedonia has been a candidate for EU membership since 2005 and has recently made a push to solve a name dispute with neighboring Greece that dates back to the independence of the former region of Yugoslavia in 1991. German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Wednesday that a solution “has never been as close as it is now.” Bulgarian Foreign Minister Ekaterina Zaharieva said this month that she hoped the decision on starting entry talks could be taken at an EU summit in June. Albania, an EU candidate since 2014, “has done a lot in the fight against organized crime,” Hahn said. The two countries will join Montenegro and Serbia, which started accession talks in 2012 and 2014, respectively, and could become members of the EU as early as 2025. Bosnia Herzegovina has applied but hasn’t been recognized as a candidate yet. In the Welt interview, Hahn also said that the EU Commission will highlight “significant deficits” in the rule of law in Turkey in an upcoming report. “The EU and Turkey should focus on the development of a strategic partnership and not on accession negotiations in the coming years,” he said, according to Bloomberg.
|
| READ THE ORIGINAL POST AT www.novinite.com |
PanARMENIAN.Net - During the days when Turkey still hoped to join the European Union, its people were becoming willing to question their ethnic and religious ancestry. Since then, the country has reverted to a time when people were disgraced and denigrated ...
|
| READ THE ORIGINAL POST AT www.panarmenian.net |
Kountoura is in Belgrade attending the Tourism Fair, at which Greece is a partner country. During the talks, it was estimated that the relations of the two countries are at a high level and that there is intensive cooperation between them in different areas.
|
| READ THE ORIGINAL POST AT www.b92.net |
A project to create a new diving park in Crete, extending over an area of about 60,702 square meters (15 acres), has received official backing. The Diving Park in the marine area of Ormos Bros Gialos, Apokoronas, Chania will be managed by the Municipality ...
|
| READ THE ORIGINAL POST AT greece.greekreporter.com |
The GREEK Life awards ceremony on Sunday was an opportunity for the UW Oshkosh GREEK community to look back on their accomplishments over the last year and come together to work on fostering brotherhood and sisterhood across the different chapters on campus. This event focused on betterment ...
|
| READ THE ORIGINAL POST AT advancetitan.com |
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras referred to the economic crisis experienced by the Greek and Irish peoples, as he received visiting Irish president, Michael D. Higgins, at Maximos Mansion on Thursday. Tsipras said the Greek people perhaps have suffered ...
|
| READ THE ORIGINAL POST AT greece.greekreporter.com |