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Political Feud Holds Up Anti-Racism Bill

Greece's coalition government is sharply divided over an anti-racism bill that is aimed at controlling the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party by imposing stricter penalties for assaults, primarily on immigrants, of which the extremists have been accused but which it...

French Say Lagarde List Tax Collector

Disputing former Greek finance minister George Papaconstantinou's assertion that a list of 2,062 Greeks with $1.95 billion in secret Swiss bank accounts he received in 2010 from then French finance chief Christine Lagarde was "unofficial and confidential," French authorities...

Samaras Vows War On Unemployment

As his government is getting set to shed 15,000 public servants over the next two years on the orders of international lenders putting up bailouts, Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said his administration will bring down the country's record...

Golden Dawn MP With Gun In Parliament

A Member of Parliament from the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party who drove into the underground parking lot there with a gun on his passenger's seat was asked by a police guard to put it away but drove on after...

SYRIZA Back In The Lead Over ND

The major opposition party Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA), in a horse race with the ruling New Democracy (ND) Conservatives for popular support, has eked out a narrow lead over the rivals in a new poll, although the...

Greece To Adopt IRS Methods

With antiquated record keeping, court cases backed up a decade, and tax cheats still running rampant during a crushing economic crisis, Greece is planning to use the same kind of cross-referencing and collection techniques that make the American Internal...

New Democracy Takes Slim Lead Over SYRIZA

Prime Minister Antonis Samaras's New Democracy (ND) Conservatives continued to hold a lead over the major opposition party Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) but by less than 1 percent in a poll conducted by the Marc/Alpha agency. ND had...

Greek VIP's Will Pay For Police Guards

After having been provided free police bodyguards, some 4,200 at one point, Greek politicians, key journalists, business executives and others deemed likely targets of criminals and terrorists will have to pay for the cost if their income is more...

Samaras Orders Teachers To Work Exams

Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, for the third time this year, will reportedly issue a civil mobilization order forcing civil servants to work, this one against teachers before they could even begin a strike that would have postponed the...

Corruption Prosecutors Quit, Hand Over Cases

Ongoing investigators into a myriad of corruption cases in Greece are being turned over to new special prosecutors after the two men handling them, Spyros Mouzakitis and Grigoris Peponis - who had ruffled feathers with their aggressive stance against...