Council of State

The union for staff of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) and of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens decided to go on a new five-day strike, and now the danger of thousands of students losing the...

The construction of the Thessaloniki Metro is going to start again, following an agreement between the Ministry of Culture and the Mayor of Thessaloniki. The agreement concerns the protection of the antiquities which were found during the excavations. The challenging...

The fired workers of the closed national broadcaster ERT, who were dismissed on June 11, derisively dismissed the government's new temporary station, EDT, set up in an attempt to meet a court order that ERT's signal had to be...

Municipal police officers set to be fired by the government to meet orders of international lenders to reduce the public workforce occupied Athens City Hall on July 10 and union leaders said the protest would escalate to the takeover...

Admitting that his New Democracy Conservatives and their coalition partner the PASOK Socialists had packed the former public broadcaster ERT with political hires before abruptly shutting it down on June 11, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras nonetheless said the decision...

More than 100 small bondholders gathered on the morning of June 26 outside the Council of State and threatened to lynch every judge they saw. What infuriated the small bondholders was information that the haircut of their bonds was upheld...

PASOK Socialist leader Evangelos Venizelos, who withdrew his opposition to the closure of ERT, will see a number of his party's officials named ministers by Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras who is planning to shake up his Cabinet in...

Continuing to show leniency toward major tax cheats while hammering workers, pensioners and the poor with pay cuts, tax hikes and slashed pensions, a Greek court on June 21 found fashion entrepreneur Lakis Gavalas guilty of owing some 17...

For third time this week, Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras will try to persuade his reluctant coalition partners, PASOK leader Evangelos Venizelos and Fotis Kouvelis of Democratic Left (DIMAR,) to go along with his closure of the national broadcaster...

The European Commission has told Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras to abide by an order from the country's highest court which ruled he should immediately restore the national broadcaster ERT he ordered shut down on June 11 and remained...