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Greece
Economist: The Greek Government Reshuffle and Early Elections
The Economist magazine published an article today, June 13, commenting on the Greek Prime Minister’s actions and the recent Greek government reshuffle, concluding that Antonis Samaras decided to put his best players in key cabinet member positions, in order to...
Education
Economist: Crisis Put an End to "Eternal Student" Phenomenon
It appears that the crisis has changed the attitude of Greek students towards their studies. In the past years they weren't hurrying to complete their studies but nowadays they desperately get back to universities.
The financial magazine "Economist," referred to the...
Greece
Venizelos, Kouvelis ERT Showdown With Samaras
Prime Minister and New Democracy Conservative leader Antonis Samaras has set a June 18 meeting with his coalition partners, PASOK Socialist leader Evangelos Venizelos and Democratic Left (DIMAR) head Fotis Kouvelis, who are demanding he withdraw a decree that...
Business
Greece Dares to Hope
The Economist published one more article about Greece on May 4. This article, on a somewhat different wavelength, had the title Greek economy: Daring to hope, fearing to fail, and focused on the prevalent situation in Greece, the hopes...
Cyprus
World Media Says Cyprus Still Uncertain
If Cyprus' government is breathing some relief that it has relented to demands from international lenders to confiscate bank accounts to trigger a 10 billion euros ($13 billion) the international press believes that the country's future is still bleak.
The...
Greece
International Media Praise Greece's Incoming Finance Minister Y. Stournaras
After Vassilios Rapanos resigned from Finance Minister, the Greek government appointed Yannis Stournaras as new minister. International media rushed to publish a short biography of this new political figure while they remarked that this choice for the crucial finance...
Europe
Greek Analyst on BBC News: “Greece Has Now Officially Defaulted”
Economist Yiannis Varoufakis from the University of Athens appeared Tuesday on BBC News to comment on the Greek debt situation and the recent signing of the second bailout loan to the debt-ridden country by the EU and IMF.
The Greek...
Europe
Top German Economist Suggests Greece Leave the Euro
In his interview to the German Spiegel, Mr. Hans-Werner Sinn, top German economist and president of the Institute for Economic Research (IFO) of the leading German think tank in Munich, said that Greece will not be rescued from the crisis...