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Greece
Greece and Cyprus Leave Eurozone, Adopt Dralira
Saying they would no longer put up with being told what to do and to keep imposing pay cuts, tax hikes, slashed pensions and seizing bank accounts so that foreign bankers putting up bailout loans could be paid back,...
Business
Cyprus Runs Up The White Flag To Bankers
On Feb. 25, conservative lawyer Nicos Anastasiades, promising Cypriots he would never allow foreign entities to steal money out of their bank accounts to pay for mistakes the banks made, was easily elected the island’s new President.
On March 25...
Greece
Cypriots Give Samaras Ammo Against Troika
The resounding 36-0 rejection (not counting 19 cowards who sat on their hands and wouldn't take a stand) by the Cypriot Parliament of a tax that would have confiscated up to 9.9 percent of bank account deposits could provide...
Greece
What Greek Anarchists Really Want: Nothing
It should come as no surprise that the four young punks who robbed two banks in northern Greece and reportedly are involved in yet another terrorist offshoot in Greece were anarchists, the type who believe there shouldn’t be a...
Greece
Anarchy at Home Blows Up Tsipras' U.S. Tour
That noise you heard when a bomb exploded at the Athens Mall was any chance that Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) leader Alexis Tsipras ever had of becoming Greece’s leader, not that he had one anyway.
With his party...
Crime
Greek Politics: The Worst Show on Earth
As political freak shows go, you just can't beat Greece, especially when the Three-Ring Circus known as the Parliament in session, if only to see workers paid thousands of euros a month walking around handing out glasses of water...
Economy
Greek Certainties: Death, Taxes and Tax Evaders
Raising taxes is supposed to be antithetical to Republicans and Greece’s New Democracy Capitalists who usually pin that on Democrats and the Left.
But it wasn’t surprising when, instead of going after tax evaders who owe their beloved country $70...
Greece
Greece's Apocalypse Now, The World's Later
The world might indeed end on Dec. 21, although it's more likely Greece's soccer team will win the World Cup in Brazil in 2014 if the earth is still around. If the end is nigh, it might even be...
Greece
Samaras Sucker Punches Greek Bond Holders
There’s a sucker born every minute, as P.T. Barnum may have said. And there’s a sucker puncher waiting for them, knowing that a fool and his money are soon parted. Such is the case in Greece, where Prime Minister...
Greece
Samaras Stripping Greeks' Civil Liberties
Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras’ plans to repeal laws granting citizenship to second-generation immigrants who were born in Greece, speak Greek and go to Greek school, and his embarrassing double jeopardy re-trial of an investigative journalist who revealed the...