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Athens Macedonian News Agency: News in English, 16-01-19
CONTENTS
[01] First meeting between PM Tsipras and main opposition ND leader
Mitsotakis underway
[02] PM Tsipras to address open event for first year anniversary of
SYRIZA government
[03] Alternate FM Xydakis' remarks to the EU General Affairs Council
in Brussels
[01] First meeting between PM Tsipras and main opposition ND leader
Mitsotakis underway
A first meeting between Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and newly elected
New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis was underway on Tuesday,
starting around 15:00. The meeting was arranged during a telephone call
that the prime minister made to Mitsotakis on the night of his election.
Tsipras and Mitsotakis will discuss social security reforms, the refugee
issue, the electoral law and other domestic and foreign issues.
Mitsotakis will meet with the other party leaders in the following days,
and will be received by President of Republic Prokopis Pavlopoulos
on Wednesday.
[02] PM Tsipras to address open event for first year anniversary of
SYRIZA government
"One year Left, One year struggle. We proceed" will be entitled an event
that will be held on Sunday 24 January, one year-anniversary from the
national elections and the victory of SYRIZA.
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will address the event at 18:30 that will
take place at the Tae Kwon Do venue at the coastal Athens suburb of
Paleo Faliro.
[03] Alternate FM Xydakis' remarks to the EU General Affairs Council
in Brussels
Alternate Foreign Minister Nikos Xydakis participated in Monday's
meeting, in Brussels, of the EU General Affairs Council (GAC) – the
first under the Netherlands Presidency of the Council of the EU.
According to a Foreign ministry's announcement, the main items on the
GAC agenda were the presentation of the priorities of the Netherlands
Presidency and preparation for the February 2016 meeting of the European
Council. The refugee crisis, innovation and job creation, fiscal health
and economic policy, energy and climate change were the main points of
reference of the Foreign Minister of the Netherlands and chair of the GAC,
Bert Koenders.
In his remarks during the Council proceedings, Xydakis stressed that
"the ambitious and, due to the refugee crisis, heavy agenda Holland is
starting with coincides with a very difficult state of affairs in which
the EU's cohesion, unity and integrity are being challenged. What is
needed," he continued, "is the upgrading of the European value framework
and a cohesive vision. The tool-box, short-term policies need to give
way to mid- and long-term policies."
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