Athens Macedonian News Agency: News in English, 14-02-21

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From: The Athens News Agency at <http://www.ana.gr/>

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[01] Venizelos meets Albanian PM Edi Rama

[02] Greece on course for growth, IMF chief says

[01] Venizelos meets Albanian PM Edi Rama

Rama's press office announced that the meeting focused on Albania's European prospect, regarding which Rama said Albania was certain it would gain the EU candidate status in June during the Greek EU presidency.

On his part, Venizelos praised the Albanian government and the prime minister's commitment and reassured him that Albanian gaining of EU candidate status was among the Greek presidency's top priorities.

According to the Albanian prime minister's office, Venizelos offered support on the levels of technical cooperation with experts from Greece in order for Albanian's accession procedure to be accelerated.

Edi Rama briefed Venizelos on the reforms launched by the Albanian government mostly on the tackling of organised crime and corruption.

He also expressed the Albanian government's readiness to give new dimensions to the cooperation between the two countries in all sectors within the context of frienship and good neighbourly relations and of the strategic partnership.

Venizelos visited Tirana as part of his tour in Western Balkan countries in his capacity as current president of the Council of the European Union.

[02] Greece on course for growth, IMF chief says

"We can celebrate the fact that Greece is finally coming out with a primary surplus, which has not happened since 1943, from my recollection," Lagarde said.

She admitted there have been miscalculations and a wrong approach, but this was partly due to the fact that "numbers were largely in excess of what had been represented".

The IMF chief spoke of a "long journey" with huge sacrifices on the part of the Greeks, but the harsh measures were necessary, she said, so as to help the Greek economy recover.

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