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Greek Lifetime Job Guarantee In Peril

With the coming firing of 15,000 workers, it seemed that Greece was finally going to bend to demands from international lenders to reduce its bloated public workforce – except that it’s going to hire 15,000 younger workers to replace...

Papandreou's Mother Sues Over Lagarde List

The mother of former Greek prime minister George Papandreou, who said she had wrongly been named as having held a secret $550 million Swiss bank account on a list of 2,062 Greeks with deposits in the Geneva branch of...

Papandreou Refuses To Testify On Lagarde List

Former Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou has for the second time sent a Parliamentary committee investigating a list of Greeks with secret Swiss bank accounts a note reiterating that he knew nothing about and that he won’t return from...

Papandreou's Deposition Leaves Lawmakers Cold

Saying they weren't satisfied with a written deposition in which he claimed to know nothing about a list of Greeks with secret Swiss bank accounts that was in the hands of his appointed finance minister, a parliamentary committee again...

Papandreou Denies Knowing Lagarde List

After refusing to appear in person, former Prime Minister George Papandreou has sent a written deposition to a parliamentary committee investigating the mishandling of a list of 2,062 Greeks with $1.95 billion in secret Swiss bank accounts that was...

Venizelos Says Rivals Worked Against Him

PASOK Socialist leader Evangelos Venizelos, testifying during a fiery hearing before a Parliamentary committee about his tenure as finance minister and his handling of a list of 2,065 Greeks with $1.95 billion in secret Swiss bank accounts that wasn't...

Venizelos Will Testify On Lagarde List

After being exempted from an investigation into why a list of 2,062 Greeks with $1.95 billion in deposits in secret Swiss bank accounts hadn't been checked for tax evasion - although he had it in his possession - former...

Papandreou May Be Called On Lagarde List

Greece's former Head of National Intelligence Service (EYP,) Costantinos Bikas, has been called to testify before a parliamentary committee investigating the removal of the names of three relatives of former finance minister George Papaconstantinou from a list of 2,602...

Court Says No SDOE Bank Access

Greece's highest administrative court, the Council of State, in a preliminary finding, has ruled unconstitutional a proposal by the country's financial crimes squad, SDOE, to freeze bank accounts, stock holdings and properties of suspects linked to large scale cases...

Tsochatzopoulos Charges Political Coverup

Former Greek defense minister Akis Tsochatzopoulos, who has been detained in jail for nearly a year and was just sentenced to an eight-year term  for failing to disclose his wealth while he awaits trial on more serious charges, has...