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Athens Macedonian News Agency: News in English, 14-10-29
CONTENTS
[01] Greece sends frigate and submarine to Eastern Mediterranean, FM
Venizelos says
[02] Greece needs new growth programme, parliament report says
[03] Vasilitsa and Pisoderi ski resorts inaugurate the winter season
[01] Greece sends frigate and submarine to Eastern Mediterranean, FM
Venizelos says
ANA/MPA---A frigate and a submarine of the Hellenic Navy will sail
in the Eastern Mediterranean, Government Vice-President and Foreign
Minister Evangelos Venizelos said on Wednesday.
Venizelos, speaking after meeting with Cypriot President Nicos
Anastasiades, said this will take place as part of Greece's international
obligations.
The frigate, he added, is sent to the area as part of UNIFIL and the
submarine under the NATO operation.
Venizelos also referred to the agreement signed for search and rescue,
through which the FIR and sea areas of Cyprus and Greece are united.
[02] Greece needs new growth programme, parliament report says
ANA/MPA---"Fiscal adjustment and reforms are implemented in a constantly
changing international and European environment, like a quicksand," the
Greek Parliament's State Budget Office said in a report. The quarterly
report, covering the July-September period, released on Wednesday,
noted that evidence of an unstable condition was the fact that a
national programme for the era after the memorandum (ending in 2014)
has not yet been drafted. The report noted that the most urgent issue
was growth focusing on innovation and productivity and restructuring
production. "Each growth plan needs a clear distribution plan and all
redistribution measures should serve this purpose. Redistribution
for growth needed a deep tax reform and a social policy on solid
foundations," the Parliament's report said, adding that any government
should seek the right balance between the operations of the state
and the market taking in mind international and European experience,
an evolving core of consensus in Europe and the particularities of the
Greek economy which is trapped in vicious cycles. The report underlined
that the end of the memorandum and the country's exit to capital markets
for borrowing did not mean that the Greek economy was not burdened by
serious structural problems nor that there was no big social problem
in the country. "All these must be resolved with the implementation of
a convincing growth program, which has yet to be announced," it said.
[03] Vasilitsa and Pisoderi ski resorts inaugurate the winter season
ANA/MPA---The ski season opened for the fans of the winter sports on
the slopes of Pisoderi (Florina) and Vasilitsa (Grevena), northwestern
Greece after the snow that fell over the last days in the area.
The snow level in Vasilitsa has reached 30cm and all ski lifts are open
for visitors. Two ski lifts of total length 1,836m are open in Pisoderi
and the snow has reached 40cm.
According to the weather forecast, snowfall is expected for Tuesday as
well as for the coming weekend. If the weather conditions continue to be
the same, the rest of the country's ski resorts will open successively
until end of November.
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