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Economy
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...
Economy
Greek Coalition Reels, Awaits EU on Loan
Prime Minister Antonis Samaras is struggling to keep his uneasy coalition together in an attempt to present a united front before Eurozone finance ministers meet on Nov. 20 to consider approving a long-delayed $38.8 billion loan installment, and as...
Greece
Greece to Crack Down on Hate Crimes
Reeling from an onslaught of assaults against immigrants - including by extremist group MPs - Athens is proposing to toughen penalties against hate crimes to include a minimum three-year prison sentence.
Greece’s current guidelines do not have specific penalties for...
Greece
Eying Golden Dawn, Greece To Toughen Hate Crime Penalties
Battling with the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party that has 18 seats in Parliament and has been involved in a number of assaults on immigrants, the Greek government is planning to increase the penalties for hate crimes.
The Parliament is also...
Economy
Antonis Samaras Sworn In As Prime Minister
ATHENS – New Democracy leader Antonis Samaras, whose party finished first in the critical June 17 elections but with less than 30 percent of the vote, was sworn in as Prime Minister on June 20 after convincing his rivals,...