Politics
Economy
ERT Workers Call EDT “Pirate Construct”
The fired workers of the closed national broadcaster ERT, who were dismissed on June 11, derisively dismissed the government's new temporary station, EDT, set up in an attempt to meet a court order that ERT's signal had to be...
Economy
EU Report Sees Dangers for Greece
Despite mixed messages about the economy - it's up, it's down, it's recovering, it's on the rocks - Greece is trying to promote that all will be well but the European Union isn't so sure.
A European Commission report about...
Greece
SYRIZA Tries To Find Its Roots
Greece's major opposition party the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRZA) on July 10 began a five-day conference hoping to unify its diversified base and find common ground against the government of Prime Minister and New Democracy Conservative party...
Economy
Greek Unions Call July 16 General Strike
After months of relative calm, Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras' uneasy coalition government is suddenly under siege for its plan to start firing thousands of public workers on the order of international lenders in return for continued rescue aid.
As...
Greece
Former King of Greece Constantine in Hospital
Former King of Greece, Constantine, was rushed to the hospital on July 8 after fainting, which alarmed the doctors because of his heart condition.
According to the newspaper Espresso, everything started on the afternoon of July 8 when he felt...
Economy
Kouvelis Skewers Samaras, Venizelos
Democratic Left leader Fotis Kouvelis, who took his party out of Prime Minister Antonis Samaras' previous coalition government, said he walked out because the Premier and PASOK Socialist leader had conspired to set up an administration without him and...
Greece
Municipal Police Occupy Athens City Hall
Municipal police officers set to be fired by the government to meet orders of international lenders to reduce the public workforce occupied Athens City Hall on July 10 and union leaders said the protest would escalate to the takeover...
Greece
Greek Public Television Is On Air
Deputy Minister for Public Broadcasting, Pantelis Kapsis said on June 10 that national broadcaster ERT, shut down on June 11, will be on air again until a replacement station called NERIT gets up and running.
The interim station will...
Economy
Samaras Sends More Austerity To Parliament
Prime Minister Antonis Samaras has forwarded to the Parliament that his coalition government controls a bill that imposes more of the austerity measures he vowed not to implement and which begins the process of firing redundant workers hired for...
Greece
Venizelos Met With Greek Patriarch of Alexandria
The Vice President of the Greek government and Foreign Minister, Evangelos Venizelos, sent a message of concern, friendship and sympathy to the people of Egypt right after his meeting with the Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa Theodoros II,...
Greece
Greece's Most Corrupt: Political Parties
The most corrupt institutions in Greece - the most corrupt country in the European Union according to Transparency International - are the political parties critics say are running it into ruin.
Politicians and journalists are viewed as on the take...
Business
OPAP's Sale Uncertain, Bidder Objects
The only real success in Greece's privatization program, the sale of its stake in the gambling monopoly OPAP, is starting to unravel.
Emma Delta, which won the bid said it won't accept conditions that bind it with the providers of...
Economy
Greece Sets 4,200 Worker Layoffs
The Greek government has identified 4,200 workers, mostly teachers, school janitors, crossing guards and municipal police officers who will be the first to be fired if other positions can’t be found for them.
They will be put into a so-called...
Economy
Greece Needs More Cash This Year
An incoming series of 6.8 billion euros ($8.8 billion) in more international rescue loans should be just about enough to get Greece through the end of the year apart from another "trivial sum" to keep the country going, Finance...
Greece
New 24-hour Strike in Municipalities
POE OTA members, the Panhellenic Federation of Workers of all specializations in the municipalities and local communities of Greece, decided a 24-hour strike on July 9 and a gathering at 11 in the morning at Karaiskaki Square.
The welfare services...