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Greek Labor Minister Katrougalos Meets ILO Chief Ryder

Greek Labor Minister Giorgos Katrougalos met on Thursday with ILO General Director Guy Ryder at the Ministry. They focused on labor relationships as well as on labor issues such as collective contracts and mass layoffs. The Minister stressed that Greece should...

2,700 Refugee Children Alone in Greece

It is estimated that from 2011 about 2,700 refugee children have ended up in Greece without their parents, either having lost them or having been separated from them. The non governmental organization Metadrasi has been helping these children by...

Greek PM Tsipras Calls for Political Leaders Meeting

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras spoke on the telephone with President of the Republic Prokopis Pavlopoulos and asked for a meeting between all party leaders as soon as possible. Tsipras is in Israel on official visit, while the Greek president...

Retired Greek Athlete Piyi Devetzi May Lose Medals for Failed Doping Test

Retired Greek athlete Piyi Devetzi, who competed in the triple jump and long jump competition could lose her bronze and silver Olympic Games medals after failing a doping test. Segas, Greece’s track and field federation, was informed by IAAF, the...

President of Republic: No Surplus of Public Sector Employees in Greece

President of the Hellenic Republic Prokopis Pavlopoulos said that there is no surplus of public sector employees in Greece and that there are shortages in some areas. The Greek president and Deputy Minister of Administrative Reform Christoforos Vernardakis had a...

Greek State Owes €6 Bln to Businesses and Individuals

  The Greek state budget until end of October does not include payment of debts to individuals and private businesses that amount to 6 billion euros and estimated to reach 7 billion by the end of 2015. Based on the bailout agreement...

Athens' Stock Exchange Temporarily Suspends Trading for 3 Greek Banks

Athens’ Stock Exchange announced on Wednesday it will temporarily suspend trading of the stocks of three systemic banks – Alpha Bank, Eurobank and Piraeus Bank – from November 27, in order to complete the shares' reverse split. According to the...

Greek Opposition Parties Criticize 2016 Draft Budget

Greece’s opposition parties harshly criticized the government for the high taxes included in the 2016 draft budget which has been under discussion in the parliament’s economics committee since Wednesday. “The measures included in the budget show an ideological leftist obsession...

Greek-Australian Businessman Admits to Falsifying Customs Documents

Greek-Australian businessman John Poulakis, from Coburg, Victoria admitted to falsifying customs documents in order to pay less duty. The 57-year-old man who owns the high-end Melbourne-based men's clothing store Harrolds had been importing suits from Europe, undervaluing their original prices...

Greek Police Arrest Cuban Man Suspected of Pulling off Major Museum Heist

Greek police on Wednesday arrested a Cuban national suspected of stealing 71 artworks from the National Museum of Fine Arts in Havana last year. Authorities believe the man, who is wanted by Cuban authorities, intended to sell the artworks abroad. The...

New Democracy Election Fiasco Leaves Greek Parliament Without Real Opposition Party

A few days ago, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras made a desperate plea for what he calls "national dialogue," or essentially asked opposition parties to back him in passing the bills required by the bailout program. The new bills to...

Greek Parliament Staff Indicted for Forged Qualification Documents

Fifteen parliamentary employees are accused of using forged qualification documents to be hired, after a probe that had started several years ago. According to sources close to the Greek government, House Speaker Nikos Voutsis revealed that the investigation had started years...

Lost Ancient Greek Island Has Been Found

Archaeologists believe they may have discovered the lost city of Kane, the site of the epic sea battle of Arginusae, which saw Athens crush Sparta in 406 BC. Archaeologists weren’t exactly sure where this island was located, until now. An...

Greek Fashion Designer Prevails at the British Fashion Awards

The British Fashion awards are one of the most important European fashion occasions, each years winners are truly the best of the best in fashion. The annual fashion ceremony awards designers and fashion houses inside and outside of Britain. Greek super star...

New List Reveals More Than 10,000 Greek Accounts in Swiss Bank

The Greek government has gotten its hands on a new and even bigger list of Greek taxpayers' bank accounts in Switzerland, thanks to the help of the German Federal Government The Finance Ministry revealed that the list includes 10,588 accounts from 2006...