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Welcome to the Athens News live news blog, where we will be covering all the developments ten days after the 2012 general election - and the first day of the second election campaign
Austrian newspaper claims that Merkel's office rang Vienna to complain about public threats against Greece via the media
16 May 2012
An Austrian newspaper has reported that German Chancellor Angela Merkel's staff has complained to Austria about Finance Minister Maria Fekter's suggestion this week that Greece could be thrown out of the EU as a result of its economic crisis, a newspaper reported on Wednesday.
The Oesterreich paper cited no sources for its report that Merkel's office called Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann's staff on Tuesday to ask whether Fekter was voicing a new (...)
Dismissing talk of Greece exiting the euro as "propaganda and nonsense", Eurogroup head Jean-Claude Juncker says the terms of the bailout could be softened if party leaders form a government
15 May 2012
Eurozone finance ministers dismissed talk of Greece leaving the eurozone as "propaganda and nonsense" on Monday, but said the country had to respect the terms of the bailout programme agreed with the EU and the International Monetary Fund.
If Greece can form a government and that government signs up to the bailout agreement, then it is possible some of the targets in the programme could be softened, the chairman of the eurozone finance ministers, (...)
Beneath the confrontational rhetoric, aides on both sides have been highlighting the similarities between German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the new French leader, Francois Hollance
15 May 2012
Five years ago, Nicolas Sarkozy flew straight to Berlin after his inauguration and shocked his hosts with some blunt talk on planemaker Airbus, one of the most sensitive of Franco-German issues.
That first visit set the tone for the months that followed. German officials looked on in horror as the new French president reneged on budget pledges, announced plans for nuclear cooperation with Libya and claimed credit for influencing decisions by the European (...)
Comments by Nikos Michaloliakos that the Holocaust didn't happen are described as an "insult to the history of Greece"
15 May 2012
The government and Jewish community on Monday condemned the leader of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn for saying there were no gas chambers in Nazi concentration camps.
Nikos Michaloliakos, whose party won almost 7 percent of the vote in the May 6 election, also challenged the view that six million Jews were killed in the Second World War.
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