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Greece
PASOK, ND Spat Rattles Coalition
Greece's already-uneasy coalition government of Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, the New Democracy Conservative leader, and his reluctant partner, PASOK Socialist leader Evangelos Venizelos took another shot when PASOK leaders - including Venizelos - criticized former ND leader and premier...
Crime
Russian Media Alert On Boy’s Stabbing
The 11-year-old Russian boy, who was visiting the island of Crete with his parents, and repeatedly stabbed, allegedly by a 20-year-old Dutch hotel employee after the boy said he tried to get back his stolen laptop.
This tragic news has...
Greece
Government Airplane Offered to Young Patient
Fifteen-year-old student Manolis Vogiatzis from Patras, suffers from cavernous angioma in a part of his brain, a disease that cannot be treated in Greek hospitals, according to the doctors at the General University Hospital in Patras.
The Greek Ministry of...
Economy
Troika Wants Drugs Sold In Markets
Greece's international lenders are again pressing the government to liberalize the market for nonprescription drugs and let supermarket be allowed to start selling medicines and provide competition for pharmacies which enjoy a monopoly, including on selling baby formula which...
Economy
Samaras Sees Rocky Road Before Recovery
Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras has warned his Cabinet that despite an infusion of $69 billion in rescue loans and more expected, that the country faces months of social upheaval as more austerity measures are worsening a deep recession.
Samaras...
Economy
Greece May Waive 25 Euros Hospital Fee
One of the most onerous measures in a $17.45 billion spending cut and tax hike plan that Prime Minister Antonis Samaras narrowly ushered through a divisive Parliament – a 25 euros ($31.77) entry fee to be seen at a...
Economy
Protesting Greek Pensioners Occupy Health Ministry
Several dozen pensioners pushed past police and stormed into the Health Ministry in Athens on Sept. 4 to protest the government’s failure to pay doctors and pharmacists for overdue state insurance bills, which has resulted in the elderly being...
Economy
Samaras Tells Ministers: Find $14 Billion in Cuts or I Will
ATHENS – With his Cabinet members reluctant to make deep cuts needed to satisfy international lenders who want Greece’s government to slash spending by $14 billion, new Prime Minister Antonis Samaras has told them that he will if they...
Economy
Samaras Sets the Tone with Troika Coming to Town
ATHENS – Moments after his Cabinet, stocked heavily with members from his own New Democracy party, was sworn in, Greece’s new Prime Minister Antonis Samaras put them to work on dealing with the country’s crushing economic crisis, in preparation...