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The 12 Events That Bent Greece In 2012

The world was supposed to end in 2012 – on Dec. 21 for you Mayan calendar believers and doomsday cultists – and for many Greeks it seemed like it did. Like the Flogging Molly song, it was the worst...

Papaconstantinou Blames Venizelos Over Lagarde List

Former Greek finance minister George Papaconstantinou, who was ejected from the PASOK Socialist party after charges emerged that the names of three of his relatives were removed from a list of more than 2,000 Greeks with deposits in a...

First Lagarde List Missing 600 Names

A new list of Greeks with deposits in a Swiss bank given prosecutors by French officials reportedly shows as many as 600 more names than a previous one which still hasn’t been checked for possible tax cheats, and after...

Greek Parliament Abandons Tax List Probe

Quietly and without attention, Greece's Parliament’s institutions and transparency committee decided by a narrow majority to stop an investigation into why former finance ministers George Papaconstantinou and  Evangelos Venizelos failed to check a list of 2,059 Greeks with $1.95...

Greece Needs Loan For Bond Buyback

Greek officials said on Dec. 12 they need an additional 1.29 billion euros ($1.68 billion) to finish a plan to buy back 30 billion euros ($31.9 billion) because the government had to offer a higher than expected price to...

No Papandreou Link to Bank List Found

Margaret Papandreou, mother of former prime minister George Papandreou, has no connection to a list of 2,059 Greeks with deposits in the Geneva, Switzerland branch of HSBC bank that hasn’t been checked for possible tax evader, prosecutors have declared. Earlier...

Financier Says Margaret Papandreou Not On Bank List

A Greek-Israeli businessman has joined former Prime Minister George Papandreou, and the former Premier’s mother, Margaret, in denying Greek media reports that she was linked to a list of 2,059 Greeks with $1.95 billion in accounts in a Swiss...

Papandreou Denies Mother On Swiss Bank List

Former Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou and his mother have denied reports in the Greek media that she's behind the name of a civil servant with 550 million euros ($714 million) in deposits in a Swiss bank, with the...

Greece Will Have To Wait On Loan

It took a while but Prime Minister Antonis Samaras’ uneasy coalition government got some relief when Eurozone finance ministers – on the third try – finally agreed to a complicated deal that would lead to the release of 43.7...

Greek Parliament Gets Lagarde List Case

The Greek Supreme Court has sent to Parliament the case file relating to the so-called Lagarde list of some 2,059 Greek with $1.95 billion in deposits in the Geneva, Switzerland  branch of HSBC that still hasn’t been vetted for...