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Greek Unemployment Rate Reduced for Second Quarter in a Row

For the third quarter of 2013, there was a reported slight decrease in the unemployment rate in Greece. However, the Greek unemployment rate is still sky-high and the highest among the eurozone countries. One of the main concerns of Greece’s...

Double Elections for Greek Citizens in May

Greek Interior Minister Yiannis Michelakis announced on Wednesday morning, that Greek local elections will take place on May 18 and 25. This means that the second day of Greek local elections will coincide with the elections of the European...

Kouvelis Open to Participate in a Left-Wing Government

The accusations of the Greek coalition Government that SYRIZA’s leader, Alexis Tsipras, tried to encourage an “apostasy” of coalition MPs who are disgruntled with the current policy, are changing the rules of the current political scene.  The president of...

New Pension Cuts to be Expected After March

Troika has given a short cooling-off period to the Greek coalition government. This leaves the Greek government with only one choice. If the new measures do not bring the results hopes for, the government will have to take action...

Dora Bakogiannis: Democratic Left Must Rejoin Government

Dora Bakogiannis, New Democracy’s MP in an interview she gave at Realfm 97.8 earlier today, stated that Democratic Left (DIMAR) must return to the Greek coalition government. She urged the Greek Prime Minister to take initiatives in order to...

Greek Gov't Leaders to Set Greeces "Red Lines" on Wednesday

This Wednesday, one day before the  summit meeting in Brussels, Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras and PASOK leader and government’s vice president, Evangelos Venizelos will have a face to face conversation in order to set out Greece’s “red lines,”...

The Economist: The Troika is Coming and Asking for Further Spending Cuts

The Economist magazine reported on troika's upcoming return to Greece. Entitled 'The Troika is Coming: Greece's new government is scrambling to find more spending cuts," the editor comments that "Greece tried but failed to find €11.5 billion of spending cuts demanded...

Who are Less Known Ministers and Deputy Ministers of Greek Government?

The Greek coalition government has announced their new Ministers and Deputy Ministers. Some of them are completely unknown to most Greek citizens, however. Evangelos Livieratos will be appointed Greek Minister of Environment, Energy and Climate Change, as Mr E. Venizelos proposed....