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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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'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...

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...

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...

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...

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...