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by Saska CVETKOVSKA and Nicolas GAUDICHET Agence France-Presse SKOPJE, Republic of North Macedonia (AFP) – North Macedonia holds the first round of its presidential election on Sunday, the country’s first vote under a new name as it struggles with enduring economic problems, cronyism and corruption. The vote for the largely ceremonial post comes less than three months after a deal with Athens on Skopje’s name change came into force, ending a decades-long identity dispute between the […]
(Reuters) Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras pleaded in the European Parliament on Wednesday for a fair deal to keep his country in the euro zone after EU leaders gave him five days to come up with reforms. “I honestly believe that it’s the sovereign right of any government to decide to increase taxation on profit-making businesses and not affect the lowest possible pensions and cut back further there to achieve those objectives,” Tsipras told the […]
Greeks voted overwhelmingly on Sunday to reject terms of a bailout, risking financial ruin in a show of defiance that could splinter Europe. With nearly half of the votes counted, official figures showed 61 percent of Greeks rejecting the bailout offer. An official interior ministry projection confirmed the figure as close to the expected final tally. The astonishingly strong victory by the ‘No’ camp overturned opinion polls that had predicted an outcome too close to […]
