Athens Macedonian News Agency: News in English, 16-03-30

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

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[01] The government will exhaust its four-year term, PM Tsipras tells Parliament

[02] President Pavlopoulos meets Israeli counterpart Rivlin

[01] The government will exhaust its four-year term, PM Tsipras tells Parliament

Tsipras was speaking at an off-the-agenda debate on justice issues in Parliament.

The prime minister also announced that the parliamentary group of SYRIZA will submit a proposal over the next days for setting up an investigation committee that will look into the loan agreements of banks with parties and media adding that the findings are expected late May.

Tsipras pledged to give an end to the law on ministers' responsibility with the revision of the constitution. As he said, ministers should be treated like any citizen.

Moreover, he accused New Democracy of trying to give the impression that the government has failed and the economy has collapsed and cited the OECD report which sees the recovery of the Greek economy in the second half of 2016.

[02] President Pavlopoulos meets Israeli counterpart Rivlin

"Europe must never again become a 'dark continent' and it must fight against any kind of xenophobia and racism, including anti-Semitism," noted the President.

Pavlopoulos underlined that the Middle East is experiencing hard times because of the crises, the war, violent extremism and terrorism. "Europe and the entire civilized world are determined to crack down on terrorism, treating the jihadist terrorists as servants of a new kind of barbarism. But the refugee issue needs to be treated in terms of humanity," he stated.

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