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Greece is to pay 16 million euros in fines for failure to comply with wastewater treatment regulations at the Thriasio Plain in western Attica. According to a Kathimerini newspaper report, Athens is also to pay additional fines for every day that...

The Commission has decided to refer Greece to the European Court of Justice because it failed to comply with a 2008 Commission decision ordering the recovery of unlawful aid to Hellenic Shipyards. This follows a 2012 ruling by the...

The European Commission decided to refer Greece, Luxembourg and Romania to the Court of Justice of the EU on Friday for failing to transpose into national law Directive 2012/34/EU establishing a single European railway area. The Directive aims at strengthening...

The European Court of Justice on Tuesday required Greece's farmers to repay 425 million euros in emergency aid to Athens authorities, confirming a decision that the money was an illegal state subsidy. The aid was given to Greek farmers in...

One doesn't have to be an opponent of the European project to agree with eurosceptics that today's EU has evolved into something that is in dire need of fundamental reform or dissolution. First, the euro crisis that erupted in 2010...

The European Court of Justice has fined the Greek state for not implementing a European Union directive on urban waste water treatment that was intended to be in full effect by the end of 2000. The Greek state will have to pay a...

The European Commission is taking Greece to court over a failure to ensure that waste water is properly treated. In the EU, member-states need adequate collection and treatment systems for urban waste water, as untreated water poses risks to...

Over 800,000 farmers will have to return funds they received five years ago as they have been described as non compliant with European Union legislation and deemed to constitute state subsidies. The government will seek the return of 387.4 million...

European Court of Justice advocate general Juliane Kokott has called for the imposition of stiff fines to Greece after repeatedly failing to comply with European waste management regulations. In a recommendation made to the court this week, Kokott said that Greece...

Only few days after Greece was convicted by the Strasbourg Court, for the exclusion of homosexual couples from the cohabitation agreement, the Greek Government promotes a legislation that allows same-sex couples to contract such an agreement. PASOK announced the filing...