Athens Macedonian News Agency: News in English, 17-02-16

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

CONTENTS

[01] ELA borrowing ceiling for Greek banks unchanged

[02] Zorba the Greek at the Opera of Cairo

[03] Greek bonds held by Eurosystem at 13.2 bln euros in end-2016

[04] Gov't will not take a single step back on the education of children refugees, says Education Min Gavroglou

[01] ELA borrowing ceiling for Greek banks unchanged

The unchanged ceiling reflects the stabilization of the liquidity situation of Greek banks, taking into account private sector deposits flows.

[02] Zorba the Greek at the Opera of Cairo

Vassilis Tsiatsianis will be the orchestra conductor and Manolis Georgostathis will be the bouzouki soloist.

The concert will be held with the support of the Greek Embassy in Cairo.

[03] Greek bonds held by Eurosystem at 13.2 bln euros in end-2016

ECB said that the average remaining duration of Greek bonds was 2.9 years. It total, the Eurosystem has in its portfolio bonds of a nominal value of 105 billion euros from the SMP programme, led by Italian bonds (54.9 bln), Spain (20.1 bln), Greece and Portugal (9.5 billion each) and Ireland (7.3 billion).

ECB's net profits grew by 111 million euros to 1.193 billion euros last year boosted by an increase in its asset purchase programme (APP) introduced in 2015, while the central bank's assets grew to 349 billion euros in 2016 from 257 billion in 2015.

[04] Gov't will not take a single step back on the education of children refugees, says Education Min Gavroglou

According to figures presented by Gavroglou, 2,500 children refugees are currently following the education programme in 94 schools while 274 teachers have been hired for this purpose.

Answering to a question submitted by Communist Party deputy Ioannis Delis claiming that the number of children refugees participating in the education and pcycological support programme is very low, Gavroglou addmitted that there are delays adding however that exceptional work has been carried out by a scientific committee on the support of children refugees. He also referred to the contribution of 12,000,000 euro NSRF (National Strategic reference Framework) funds to be directed to that purpose.

Referring to the reaction on the implementation of the programme, he lashed out at the "fascist and nazis movement existing in Greece and in Europe." However he did not deny that there is another part of people that also reacts without being identified with Golden Dawn, but it is a group of people which is afraid and need to be informed on the issue.

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