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Economy
Polls Show Death Knell for PASOK
Little more than four years after winning the Prime Minister's office with 44 percent of the vote, the PASOK Socialists who are partners in Prime Minister Antonis Samaras' New Democracy Conservative government are on the edge of extinction with...
Economy
Stressed Greek Banks Need 6.4B Euros More
Ailing Greek banks, which have already received 41 billion euros in an injection of state money from bailouts, will need another 6.382 billion, stress tests performed by BlackRock Solutions has recommended, less than the nine billion estimated by international...
Economy
Samaras, Venizelos Meet On Troika Rift
As a logjam over unresolved reforms remains with international lenders, Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras is set to meet with his Deputy Premier, PASOK Socialist leader Evangelos Venizelos, on March 5 to try to find a way to break...
Economy
Georgiadis Defends 5-Euro Clinic Fee
Greek Health Minister Adonis Georgiadis, who had to withdraw a 25 euro hospital admission fee after being blistered by critics, now is trying to defend a five euro fee for clients of revamped state clinics, including ire from the...
Economy
Long Troika Talks Stall Yet Again
A week after saying it had a deal in hand, the Greek government now is admitting that negotiation with its international lenders have sputtered again over unresolved reforms and a disputed hole in the 2014 budget.
Envoys from the Troika...
Greece
New Poll on Upcoming Greek Elections
A recent poll conducted on behalf of Greek pollster Metron Analysis for the newspaper “To Ethnos tis Kiriakis,” reveals marginal differences in voting intentions with regards to Greece’s two leading parties, New Democracy and SYRIZA, with the main opposition...
Business
One Bidder For Hellenikon, Tsipras Sounds Warning
After plans by the government to develop the former Hellenikon national airport site on Athens' coast got only a single bidder as other companies withdrew with complaints the process was flawed, Greece's opposition party leader threatened to overturn the...
Greece
Independent Greeks Announce Candidate for Attica Governor
Greece’s right wing political party Independent Greeks announced the candidacy of MP Pavlos Haikalis for Attica Governor in the upcoming local elections. The elections are scheduled to be held on May 18, 2014.
Haikalis, who announced his candidacy during his...
Greece
Too Late For To Potami in Greece
Once upon a time, Athens had a river running through it, the Kifissos, flowing from Mt. Parnitha through the city down to the Saronic Gulf. A city really needs a river or body of water to be considered World...
Economy
Olive Tree Down: PASOK, The 58 Fall Out
Greece’s already-fractured Center-Left spun out of control into a vortex on Feb. 25 when The 58 Initiative, a collection of intellectuals and academics hoping to unify the alignment, said it would not work with the vanishing PASOK Socialists to...