Politics

The New Democratic Member of Parliament for the electoral district of Churchill in Manitoba, Canadian-Greek, Niki Ashton,  has expressed her opposition to the decision of the Greek government and its leader, Antonis Samaras, as a member of Her Majesty's...

Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras has defended his decision to shut down the country’s public ERT broadcaster and ignored please from his coalition partners to change his mind, setting up a possible showdown with them unless they back...

Public transportation in Athens will be staggered on June 13 as transport workers join a strike called by the country's largest labor unions representing public and private workers in the aftermath of the government's decision to shut down the...

The Troika opened the backdoor for a wage below 586 euros by issuing a ministerial decision, cancelling the definition of the minimum salary by law, as it was initially provided by the decision of the Ministerial Council of the...

A storm of protests has risen in Kalamata after Golden Dawn’s decision to organize a festival for its voters around Greece on August 4, the day  the dictator, Ioannis Metaxas, carried out his self-coup in 1936. Municipal factions, Kalamata’s Anti-Fascism...

After the rapid political developments caused by the closure of ERT and the barrage of strikes, the Troika decided to postpone the meeting with the Greek Minister of Finance, Giannis Stournaras, which was scheduled for the afternoon of June...

Greek government spokesman, Simos Kedikoglou, who didn't speak out about mismanagement at the state broadcaster ERT when he worked there but has defended the move to close it because of what he said was waste and inefficiency at the...

The Attiko Metro (AM), the public company building the underground railway networks in Athens and Thessaloniki has no more revenues after the application of Reppas’ law for urban transport. As AM’s financial reports reveal, the company added a further 141 million...

Ignorning a government order to leave the building, and with riot police assembled at vantage points around Athens, journalists from ERT, the public broadcaster that was shut down almost immediately on June 11 stayed on the air through the...

According to Deputy Finance Minister, George Mavraganis' decision, the process  of submitting required documents for natural persons who declare to be residents abroad and acquire actual income earned in Greece, has been simplified. These documents have been determined anew in...

As the Finance Ministry announced, from June 17, six tax offices on Greek islands will close, while 14 more will merge with other more central tax offices by September 1. The decision is in accordance with the Memorandum to have...

Protesters gathered outside the convention center where the TEDGlobal conference is being held in Edinburgh and attempted to block George Papandreou's speech. For a long time, there were reactions to the former Greek prime minister's speech. There was even an...

Employees of the Greek national broadcaster ERT who vowed to stay on the air even as the government said the TV and radio stations funded by mandatory payments in electric bills would close and then re-open with a drastically...

The great reduction in student enrollment in the Technical Educational Institutes (TEI), which was proposed by the team of the Minister of Education and Culture, Konstantinos Arvanitopoulos, caused the disagreement of Deputy Minister Theodoros Papatheodorou. On June 11, Arvanitopoulos announced...

In the effort to combat tax evasion, the Ministry of Finance is preparing a new draft for a bill that will enforce the role of tax services, by giving them greater power. The bill draft will soon be finalized to...