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Greek Deputy Health Minister: 'Each Minister is not Obliged to Talk to the Institutions'

The need to face the humanitarian crisis caused by the Memoranda comes first, before the institutions, noted Greece's Deputy Health Minister Dimitris Stratoulis speaking to ANT1 TV on Monday referring to the draft laws to be tabled, starting from today, in parliament....

Greek Alt. Social Insurance Minister on Christmas Bonus

The government's commitment to give the Christmas bonus to 1,262,920 pensioners will be applied, said Greek Alternate Insurance Minister Dimitris Stratoulis, adding that the regulation is ready and its cost is exactly 545 million euros, speaking on Saturday to...

Greek Deputy Health Minister: Govt will not Cut Pensions

Greek Deputy Health Minister Dimitris Stratoulis ruled out on Friday the possibility of further cuts in main or supplementary pensions or a retirement age raise. "There are no cuts in our government for pensions, neither in the main, nor in the...

Greek Deputy Health Minister: Government Guarantees Pensions

"If there are any difficulties, we have a plan to deal with them and have sufficient financing," Greek Deputy Health Minister Dimitris Stratoulis said on Monday during an interview with Athens-Macedonian News Agency. Stratoulis confirmed that the restitution of previous losses on...

Greek Deputy Interior Minister Selling Ministerial Cars

Greek Deputy Minister of Interior and Administrative Reconstruction Giorgos Katrougalos announced that he is going to sell the majority of state cars provided to Ministers and Greek government officials. The Deputy Minister, who owns an old collectible MG convertible, stated that he...

SYRIZA Leader Tsipras Promises Restoration of Returnee Expatriates' Pensions

With the representatives of Pontian and Northern Epirus expatriates Federations met earlier today Greek main opposition SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras along with the party's MPs Panagiotis Lafazanis, Dimitris Stratoulis, Panagiotis Kourouplis and Alexis Mitropoulos. Among others, Tsipras committed to restore...

ERT Workers Caught Asleep By Police Raid

The order by Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, the New Democracy Conservative party leader who convinced his coalition partner, PASOK Socialist chief Evangelos Venizelos to drop his objections to a Nov. 7 dawn riot police raid to oust former...

Greece Says No More Minimum Wage Cuts

Greece's Finance and Labor Ministries authorities have insisted there are no plans to lower the minimum wage any further after a government official suggested that people being paid 586 euros ($788) a month - before taxes are being paid...

Golden Dawn Sues Beaten MP For Libel

A member of the major opposition party Coalition of the Far Left (SYRIZA) who claimed he was beaten by three men at a soccer game who identified themselves as members of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party is being sued...