TheGreekparliamentlateThursdayadoptedanewroundofausteritycutswhichthegovernmenthopeswillsecureapledgeofdebtreliefandloandisbursementsbyEU-IMFcreditorsthismonth.
Around half of Germans are against granting debt relief to Greece and around three in 10 want the debt-laden country to quit the euro zone, a survey showed on Friday.
Discord over the Greek debt negotiations are set to overshadow a meeting of EU finance ministers in Brussels on Monday.
Nearly 2,500 refugee children are currently attending public schools in Greece thanks to an educational program which was introduced early in October, Greek Minister of Education Costas Gavroglou stated on Thursday while speaking in parliament.
The sovereign debt crisis that has rocked Greece since late 2009 came back onto the European agenda with a Tuesday debate at the European Parliament here.
European Union voters in France, Germany, Italy and Greece think their countries are heading in the wrong direction but there is not yet any Europe-wide inclination to follow Britain towards exiting the bloc, according to a poll published on Thursday.
Senior Communist Party of China (CPC) official Liu Yunshan arrived here Sunday, kicking off an official good-will visit to Greece.
The European Union(EU)looks unlikely to be able to complete its plan to relocate 160,000 refugees from Greece and Italy by September 2017, as figures released on Wednesday show that only 5,651 refugees have been relocated by far.
The Greek government reiterated a call to the EU to quickly help relocate thousands of refugees and migrants currently living in overcrowded reception centers on the Aegean Sea islands, as new clashes among refugees broke out on early Monday inside Moria hot spot on Lesvos island.
Greece will apply to participate in the share capital of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), the Government Council on Economic Policy decided on Thursday, in a meeting chaired by Deputy Prime Minister Yannis Dragasakis.
China is committed to solving maritime disputes through dialogue and negotiation with countries directly concerned in line with international laws and on the basis of respecting historical facts, Premier Li Keqiang said Monday.
The enhancement of Sino-Greek cooperation is a strategic choice, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras told Xinhua in a written interview here before departing for his first official visit to China from July 2 to July 6.
The European Commission here on Wednesday adopted its second report on the EU-Turkey migrant deal, which showed that while there has been further good progress in its implementation, progress achieved remains fragile.
Greece may have passed a milestone and its bond market has been lucrative for some investors, but the road to recovery doesn't look much shorter.
Finance ministers of the 19-country eurozone have hammered out a deal in Brussels with Greece in the early hours of Wednesday after an 11-hour-meeting to which is described as a "major breakthrough" to start debt relief and unlock over 10 billion euros bailout cash for Greece.
Greece has begun evacuating thousands of stranded migrants from the makeshift Idomeni camp on its northern border with Macedonia.
China COSCO Shipping Corporation Limited, China's state-run shipping giant, entered into a deal with Greece's privatization fund HRADF on Friday to take over a 67-percent stake in the European nation's main port of Piraeus.
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