Kyriakos Mitsotakis
Economy
Greece Braces For Tough Troika Talks
The Troika is back in town, and Greek officials said they are expecting "truly difficult" talks with envoys from the country's international lenders, the European Union-International Monetary Fund-European Central Bank (EU-IMF-ECB) over lagging reforms and a 1-billion euro ($1.3...
Economy
More Austerity Seen Coming For Greece
Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras may yet have to break his promise not to impose more pay cuts, tax hikes and slashed pensions on beleaguered Greeks because of a billion-euro hole in the country's budget in the wake of...
Economy
Mitsotakis Wants More Firing Time
Prime Minister Antonis Samaras' Cabinet shakeup to bring in PASOK Socialists as a reward for backing his closing of state broadcaster ERT means the government won't be able to meet deadlines set by international lenders to start firing more...
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...
Business
Coco- Mat Opens New Store in Berlin
Coco-Mat, the Greek company of mattresses with all-natural materials opened a new store in the German capital on May 29 in the presence of the Greek ambassador in Berlin, Panayotis Zografos.
The new store, located in the center of Berlin,...
Greece
Let's Play The FYROM Name Game!
Matthew Nimetz, the United Nations "special" envoy on the tedious issue of what to call the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) has a better job than even Joe DiMaggio did, although it was pretty special to play center...
Greece
Nimetz Pushes New FYROM Name Plan
United Nations special envoy Matthew Nimetz said a new name is on the table for the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) to be discussed although initial reports said that Greece isn’t happy about it.
Nimetz met with negotiators from...
Economy
Golden Dawn Recruiting Schoolchildren
Greece’s neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party, which has actively been recruiting high schoolers to indoctrinate them, has been giving what it calls “national awareness” lessons to elementary school students aged 6-10 to teach them “Greek ideals,” its officials have admitted.
On...
Economy
Mitsotakis Says Greece Needs More Cuts
Greece needs to drastically reduce its bloated public sector and keep administering more reforms to get out from under its crushing economic crisis, Former Prime Minister Constantinos Mitsotakis, speaking at the launch of a publication about his time in...
Greece
The Name Game: Greece Gave Macedonia Away
Macedonia is Greek. Get that? Macedonia is Greek, no matter what Greece's envious neighbor to the north, a place called FYROM, wishes were the case.
After gaining its independence from Yugoslavia 21 years ago, you'd think the people who lived...