Diaspora
Greece
Diaspora Bureau Takes Staff Cuts
The General Secretariat for Greeks Abroad, an agency founded 30 years ago to help facilitate relations with the Diaspora, could be in jeopardy after 10 of its 51 staff members were put into the government's mobility scheme, which means...
Australia
Greek-Australians Want ERT Open
In a letter to the Prime Minister, Antonis Samaras, the Chairman of the Greek Community of Melbourne, pointed out that for many decades now ERT has been a bridge for Greeks living abroad with their motherland and has contributed...
Greece
Dual Taxation Agony Over
With four simple regulations of Article 43, Law 4141, the Greek State provides a solution to the taxation problem for people of Greek descent. Those who have or can receive income in Greece, will be able from now on...
Greece
Greece Working Again on Diaspora Vote Law
Minister of Interior Evripides Stylianides noted the importance of solving the national issue of granting voting rights to Greeks in the Diaspora while addressing the Hellenic Parliament's Special Committee on Greeks Abroad the Special Committee on Oct. 25.
The Minister explained...
Economy
For Greeks, The Property Tax Bill is in the Mail
The first batch dreaded new “emergency” property tax statements being put into electric bills under the threat of having power turned off – or even garnishing wages and seizing properties for non-payment – has been sent off to Greeks...