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The great American convict Willie Sutton said he robbed banks “because that’s where the money is.” And, of course, he was one-upped by Al Capone who said: “You can get much farther with a smile, a kind word and...

With his party on the verge of extinction, Democratic Left (DIMAR) leader Fotis Kouvelis is looking to hook up with a former PASOK Socialist minister, Andreas Loverdos, whose own new party Pact for a New Greece, doesn't even register...

Greece's economy is expected to hit rock bottom by the end of the year, the seventh of a deep recession but the effects could linger and create a small reduction after that, the Greek think tank IOBE said, in...

Representatives from the European Union's member states will next week (5 February) agree a mandate for negotiations with MEPs on a proposal to revise EU rules on shipments of waste. They want to close loopholes in the existing law...

“Athens incites France to turn against Germany” This is the title of an article that was published in the German magazine “Focus” regarding Greece. Focus along with other German media reproduced the statements that were made by the Greek Foreign...

With international lenders pressing Greece to speed up delayed reforms and find a way to close a hole in the 2014 budget as big as 1.4 billion euros ($1.94 billion) the Finance Ministry said a primary budget surplus for...

The Greek Parliament's Budgetary Office (BO), responsible for monitoring how the Greek State's budget is implemented, has issued its fourth quarter report for 2013 on the state of Greece's fiscal and structural reforms. Progress on Fiscal Reforms On the upside, the BO...

Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, in a sideline meeting in Brussels, asked Russian President Vladimir Putin to lower the prices that Greece pays for Russian gas, but didn't get a commitment. The two men met in Brussels after Samaras addressed...

Greek civil servants, upset that the country's highest court has ruled that military pay cuts imposed as part of austerity measures affecting the public sector across-the-board were unconstitutional and must be repaid, are suing to get back lump sum...

The Greek public television legacy is once more available via the website hprt-archives.gr. Thousands of digitized records, with full documentation of the Greek Public Television archive manages to capture the history and evolution of Greece from the late '60s until...