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Greece
Six Athens Hospitals To Be Health Centers
As Greece continues to downsize the public sector as part of ongoing reforms demanded by international lenders in return for bailouts, the government is planning transform a half dozen hospitals in Athens into smaller health care centers.
The change comes...
Cyprus
Cyprus Wants Troika Bailout Escape Clause
Already trying to distance itself from the harsh terms to which it agreed in return for a 10 billion euros ($13 billion) bailout from international lenders, Cyprus' new government said it would seek a clause allowing for the removal...
Culture
Play Mocking Greek Hero Diakos Ires Officials
A play for the Athens Festival portraying Athanasios Diakos, a hero of the War of Independence who was impaled by the Turks, as a cuckolded souvlaki maker whose wife is impregnated by a Kurd has upset Greek officials.
As noted...