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Economy
Internal Disagreements Within SYRIZA After Bridge-Program Deal
The 12-hour meeting of the SYRIZA parliamentary group was marked by serious disagreements over the Eurogroup deal on Tuesday that extends the bailout program for another four months.
The loudest disagreements came from Minister of Productive Reconstruction Panagiotis Lafazanis and...
Greece
Amnesty International Warns Over Racism Incidents and Police Brutality in Greece
Its annual global report on the state of human rights for 2014 published Non Governmental Organization (NGO) Amnesty International that focuses on human rights and currently has more than seven million members and supporters across the globe. The report highlighted...
Economy
German Historian: Rich Greeks Evade Taxes Since 1830
"The rich were exempt from taxes since the birth of the Greek state in 1830," said German historian Heinz Richter, criticizing Greek political parties.
The German historian and author is professor emeritus of modern Greek and Cypriot history at the...
Economy
Financial Problems Lead Mother and Son to Suicide
Two more victims are added on the long list of casualties of the economic crisis in Greece. A 63-year-old woman and her 27-year-old son jumped from the fifth floor of their apartment building and died.
The latest chapter of the...
Economy
Grammy-Winning Band Roots for Greece in Song
Greece 's struggle to come out of the economic crisis has many supporters around the world. The most recent one is Grammy-winning Canadian indie rock band Arcade Fire.
Singer Will Butler wrote a song called "Clean Monday," named after the...
Economy
Greece's New Reform List and List of Bailout Requirements More Similar than Different
The list of proposed reforms Greece sent to its international creditors bears many similarities to the requirements of the abandoned bailout program, the Memorandum. The terminology used is different though.
European Commission sources, however, note that there should be further...
Greece
Student in Northern Greece Goes Missing After Bullying Incident
Greek authorities are conducting a wide search through the city of Ioannina and the surrounding regions in northern Greece looking for 20-year-old Dairy School student Vangelis Giakoumakis who went missing on February 6. Giorgos Tsoukalis, a private investigator who has...
Greece
Greek PM Tsipras Meets Mikis Theodorakis Following Plea to Say 'No' to Schaeuble's Nein'
In what is seen as a move of exceptional political symbolism, newly elected Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras visited internationally acclaimed composer Mikis Theodorakis at his home earlier this morning. The two men held a discussion regarding the country's...
Economy
Finance Ministry Cleaners' Reinstatement Suspended
Some 400 public sector cleaning employees were suspended in September 2013, as part of the availability measures implemented by the government, and were dismissed nine months later. The Greek Supreme Court has postponed the hearing of the cleaning staff’s...
Economy
Greek Public Debt Management Agency Asks Security Funds to Buy Repos
The Public Debt Management Agency and the Labor Ministry have asked security funds to buy government repos in order to avoid potential liquidity problems.
According to an Eleftheros Typos newspaper report, the PDMA and the Labor Ministry have asked 15...
Economy
IMF Chief: Greece will Stay in Euro Zone
International Monetary Fund President Christine Lagarde said that there is no discussion for Greece exiting the euro zone and that she is optimistic the country will come to a satisfying agreement with its creditors and its economy will be...
Crime
Former Financial Crime Squad Chief Allegedly Falsified 'Lagarde List'
Former head of Financial Crime Squad (SDOE) and public prosecutor Yiannis Diotis is accused by former finance minister Giorgos Papakonstantinou that he is responsible for adulterating the "Lagarde List".
Giorgos Papakonstantinou served as finance minister during the George Papandreou administration...
Economy
Greek FinMin to CNN: Electorate Excited with New Deal
Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis said the electorate is excited with the new deal when he spoke to CNN a few hours before sending the final list of reforms by the Greek government to its European partners.
Mr. Varoufakis spoke to...
Greece
Mikis Theodorakis to Greek PM Tsipras: Say 'No' to Schaeuble's 'Nein'
Internationally acclaimed composer Mikis Theodorakis stood on the side of the historic member of the Greek Left and SYRIZA MEP Manolis Glezos who yesterday publicly apologized to the Greek people for contributing to an "illusion," as he characterized the...
Greece
Greek Deputy Migration Minister: Citizenship Granting Bill for Second Generation Migrants to be Tabled First
Greece’s Deputy Migration Policy Minister Tasia Christodoulopoulou, in an interview with Athens-Macedonian News Agency, declared that her first bill to be tabled in the Greek Parliament will be the one regarding granting citizenship to second generation migrants. As she said, the bill is...