Greek Beat

Imagine a United States where unemployment is 24 percent – 55 percent for those under 25 – where wages have been cut and pensions and Social Security slashed 30 percent, property and income taxes doubled, gasoline at $10 a...

Nobody is above the law in Greece, except for politicians, the rich, athletes, celebrities, architects, tax evaders, engineers, lawyers, doctors, auto mechanics, fruit and vegetable vendors, street sellers, taxi drivers, truck drivers, hairdressers, organized crime, and everybody else who...

Nothing is as permanent as a temporary tax so Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, attempting to justify punishing workers, the elderly and the poor again while giving privileged professionals, the rich elite and tax evaders a free pass and...

Students at Harvard University's JFK School of Government pay around $40,000 a year or so to get the best education that money can buy and learn from the best and brightest teachers of public policy, public administration, and international...

It is a melancholy object to those who walk through the once-great city of Athens and the now ragged other cities and forlorn towns and villages of Greece when they see the streets, the roads, and cabin doors, crowded...

Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras is about as a funny as a Republican defending legitimate rape, but he did manage to come up with a good one when he said he wants to ban Members of Parliament from hiring...

Born liar Evangelos Venizelos, the new non-leader of the PASOK Anti-Socialists, and Democratic Left leader “Uncle” Fotis Kouvelis, who is still learning the game of political prevarication, both recently swore, vow, pledged, promised, wrote in stone, dipped their fingers...

ATHENS -  Not content with taxing the poor to protect the rich, Greece is putting the arm on the penniless, starting with the arrest of an unemployed Cretan father of seven, whose wife was also jobless. He owed the...

ATHENS – Ten days before the London 2012 Olympic Games were set to begin, most of the Greek Olympic team was unveiled at a ceremony in the neo-classical Zappeion building in the heart of Athens, and the young men...

ATHENS - Alexandros Nikolaidis is a real Greek, an imposing 6-7 Evzone of a man and a two-time Silver Medalist in Tae Kwan Do in the Olympics – in Athens in 2004 and Beijing in 2008 - and the...