by CBBSS | Aug 27, 2021 | Regional News
Kiev has announced its largest private creditors have agreed to write-off 20 percent of $18 billion of debt, as well as to extend the maturity by four years on the remaining money owed, The Telegraph reports. Moscow promptly announced it would not agree to the terms...
by CBBSS | Aug 20, 2021 | Regional News
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras announced on television Thursday that he is resigning and calling for an early election, BBC reports. The election is reportedly scheduled to occur on September 20, but the date has yet to be confirmed. Tsipras is facing a rebellion...
by CBBSS | Aug 20, 2021 | Regional News
Reuters reports Greece is likely to hold snaps election on Sept. 20. Prime Minster Alexis Tsipras is attempting to suppress a rebellion in his leftist Syriza party over the new Greek bailout program he is trying to implement. Read original...
by CBBSS | Aug 20, 2021 | Regional News
EU Observer reports Greece is planning to sell stakes in ports, railroads, water and sewer services, oil and gas firms, a phone service and the postal service as part of a privatization deal required by the new bailout package. A large portion of Prime Minister Alexis...
by CBBSS | Aug 14, 2021 | Regional News
The Greek parliament passed Greece’s new 86 billion euro bailout deal on Friday, but the vote indicated leftist Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras may no longer have enough support to maintain a ruling coalition. 118 of the MPs in Tsipras’s coalition supported...