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Greek Wiretapping Scandal: Minister’s Phone ‘Under Surveillance’
The Greek wiretapping scandal took another turn for the worse for the government on Sunday as a paper published telephone conversations of a prominent minister who was allegedly spied upon by the intelligence service (EYP).
Newspaper Documento, who almost single-handily...
Economy
Amazon Starts Digital Skills Program in Greece
Greece’s Manpower Organization (OAED) will cooperate with Amazon for the training of the country's registered unemployed on digital skills.
Economy
Up To 15,000 Homes On Seizure List
Greece’s coalition leaders said they will allow banks to confiscate 12,000-15,000 homes because they believe the owners have been trying to manipulate laws that protect people with primary residences worth up to 200,000 euros ($260,000) from losing them because...
Economy
Samaras Says No Foreclosures On Poor
With a rebellion growing in their ranks over plans to let banks seize homes after a ban on foreclosures expires at the end of the year, Greek Prime Minister and New Democracy Conservative leader Antonis Samaras and his coalition...
Culture
World's Thinkers At Philosophy Congress
Philosophers from around the world will gather in Athens from Aug. 4-10, returning to the land of its most famous practitioners, for the World Congress of Philosophy.
The president of the Organizing Committee, Professor of Philosophy at the University of...
Greece
Samaras Visits Niarchos Foundation Site
Prime Minister Antonis Samaras on July 26 visited the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC) in Faliro, which is currently under construction, accompanied by the Minister of Development Kostis Hatzidakis, the Minister of Education Konstantinos Arvanitopoulos and the Minister...
Economy
Schaeuble Offers German Investment in Greece
Speaking at the German-Hellenic Chamber on July 18 in Athens - with the center of the city shut down to most traffic and protests banned during his day-long visit - German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said his country was...
Economy
The Samaras Shuffle Under Way
Prime Minister Antonis Samaras and PASOK's Evangelos Venizelos were to meet on June 24 to discuss a shakeup in the Cabinet that will dump some of the Premier's ministers and replace them with Socialists to reward Venizelos for backing...
Greece
Sonia Theodoridou in Anti Cancer Charity Concert
Sending the message that healing is an offer and solidarity among people, wherever they come from, the well-known soprano Sonia Theodoridou is contributing to a humanitarian project.
Theodoridou will give a charity concert at the the Lycabettus Theater, on June...
Greece
Ryanair Wants Lower Greek Airport Taxes
Low cost airline Ryanair says it could attract 10 million tourists to Greece within the next three years if the taxes at Athens International Airport (AIA) are lowered from 12 euros to 5 euros per passenger and other reforms.
Ryanair's...