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Dear Mr President – Vanishing Cyprus
Dear Mr. President, with all due respect, things in Cyprus are not going as well as you so passionately promised. Your election campaign-pledges never actually materialized. We are sure you meant well but somewhere along the way your party-dogmatism...
Economy
Greek Workers Protest Firings; Officers Await Back Pay
It hasn't worked yet, but Greek workers were to take to the streets on June 30 in another of hundreds of protests over austerity measures over the last four years, at the same time the government is moving to...
Economy
Greece Girds For Troika Return, Reform Battle
Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras' coalition administration faces a stern test this week with the return of envoys from international lenders and is bracing for a battle with them over the part-privatization of the country's Public Power Corporation (PPC).
The...
Economy
Potami Leader Says Greece Needs Renaissance, "Big Change"
The leader of the new To Potami (The River) political movement which got just 6.6 percent of the vote in the European Parliament elections, has called on Greeks to reject the two-ruling party system which brought the country to...
Economy
Greek Queue Forms For Pay Restorations
Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, relenting to demands from five of his lawmakers who said they would not otherwise support an amendment to restore judges' pay and pension to pre-austerity levels, will now forward another measure to do the same...
Education
New Democracy MP's Resist Judges' Pay Restoration
Prime Minister Antonis Samaras is trying to quell dissent by five of his New Democracy Conservative lawmakers who said they will vote against an amendment to restore the pay and pensions of judges unless he does the same for...
Economy
Retired Judges Pension Cuts Ruled Unconstitutional
Greece' s Prime Minister Antonis Samaras' hopes for a burgeoning economic recovery have taken another hit from the courts with a ruling by the State Audit Council that retroactive pension cuts on judges, prosecutors and members of the State...
Business
With Chinese Gone, Samaras Presses Reforms
Fresh off a triumphant visit from Chinese peer Li Keqiang, Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras now is going to turn his attention to domestic matters, including pushing through reforms he pledged to international lenders.
Li and Samaras talked about developing...
Greece
Greek Cabinet Shake-up Shakes Bloggers
Prime Minister Antonis Samaras reshuffled his cabinet for the second time in two years, naming a new finance minister, as he closed Parliament early for the summer break.
Economics professor and banker Gikas Hardouvelis will be the new Finance Minister,...
Economy
Chinese Premier in Piraeus: Cosco Sees Expansion
Looking to build his country's growing presence in Greece, visiting Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang on June 20 went to the port of Piraeus where the Chinese company Cosco has already taken over much of the operations.
It was the...