Greek Crisis

“Our pupils faint due to starvation. We see our pupils coming to school with holes in their shoes. They don’t even have money to buy food from the school canteen[...]

On Thursday, Greece's government ordered police to reopen landfills in the country's two main cities after a 10-day blockade by municipal workers who halted sanitation services and left tons of uncollected garbage on city streets. In the past few days,...

From crushing ruling Conservatives party two years ago, Papandreou’s poll numbers have suffered a dramatic slump turning the Greek PM into a contemporary Diogenes of Sinope who instead of strolling around with a lamp looking for an honest man, he’s desperately looking for his voters- if there’s anyone left that is[...]

A top official from Chancellor Angela Merkel's Bavarian sister party called Sunday for debt-mired Greece to exit the eurozone, as Germany's leader fights to keep her government on message during the crisis. "I think it is a solution, if you...

After picketing their homes, jeering them, pelting them with yogurt, throwing bottles and stones at them, Greek citizens have taken to venting their frustration with the country’s economic woes by hurling eggs at politicians. Deputy Minister for Citizen’s Protection Manolis...

"You either keep your word and push the mid-term program immediately or you will not be given the next trench", said Troika officials to George Papandreou and Evangelos Venizelos. Surely it must[...]

 Greece's creditors have firmly asked the government to lay off 100,000 civil servants by 2015, with 50,000 to be shifted to «εφεδρεία» (a special labor reserve at reduced pay ) as off  tomorrow or Greece will be left on...

A system about to collapse, students unable to take exams or attend lectures[...]

In 1974, a couple of months before the colonels' junta collapsed, current Prime Minister's father, Andreas Papandreou, left Toronto and returned home, in order to create the Pan-Hellenic So-cialist Movement, known as Pasok. Andrea's political "child" had a a tint of Marxism mixed with a nationalist and socialist agenda. Thirty seven...

Greek tax legislation changes resemble pretty much Latin American soap opera episodes[...]