Politics

Ignorning a government order to leave the building, and with riot police assembled at vantage points around Athens, journalists from ERT, the public broadcaster that was shut down almost immediately on June 11 stayed on the air through the...

According to Deputy Finance Minister, George Mavraganis' decision, the process  of submitting required documents for natural persons who declare to be residents abroad and acquire actual income earned in Greece, has been simplified. These documents have been determined anew in...

As the Finance Ministry announced, from June 17, six tax offices on Greek islands will close, while 14 more will merge with other more central tax offices by September 1. The decision is in accordance with the Memorandum to have...

Protesters gathered outside the convention center where the TEDGlobal conference is being held in Edinburgh and attempted to block George Papandreou's speech. For a long time, there were reactions to the former Greek prime minister's speech. There was even an...

Employees of the Greek national broadcaster ERT who vowed to stay on the air even as the government said the TV and radio stations funded by mandatory payments in electric bills would close and then re-open with a drastically...

The great reduction in student enrollment in the Technical Educational Institutes (TEI), which was proposed by the team of the Minister of Education and Culture, Konstantinos Arvanitopoulos, caused the disagreement of Deputy Minister Theodoros Papatheodorou. On June 11, Arvanitopoulos announced...

In the effort to combat tax evasion, the Ministry of Finance is preparing a new draft for a bill that will enforce the role of tax services, by giving them greater power. The bill draft will soon be finalized to...

The Turkish Cypriot leader, Dervis Eroglu, ordered the formation of a transitional "government", until the conducting of early "parliamentary elections" in the occupied part of Cyprus on July 28, to female MP Sibel Siber of the Republican Turkish Party...

Former Eurozone chief Jean-Claude Juncker, the Prime Minister of Luxembourg, told an audience in Athens that the region's financial crisis - with Greece in the epicenter - started in the United States. Juncker blamed the Americans for their attitudes toward...

The Human Rights Union Party denounced the acts of vandalism against it that took place during the electoral campaign in Albania. For the fourth time, unknown people destroyed billboards with posters which bore the photo of the president of the...

June 10 was a somber day in the Greek village of Distomo, the 69th anniversary of the massacre of most of its citizens by Nazis in a reprisal raid. On that day in 1944, an SS phalanx, along with other...

While the Greek economy shrank 5.6 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the first quarter this year, the Finance Ministry said the primary deficit also fell as deep spending cuts offset less-than-expected tax revenues that were far off...

With the ruling New Democracy Conservatives of Prime Minister Antonis Samaras and one of his two coalition partners, the PASOK Socialists, failing to pay banks 250 million euros ($330.65 million) in loans and giving immunity to loan officers for...

A second trial for Greek investigative journalist Kostas Vaxevanis, who was cleared last year of breaching privacy rights but is being prosecuted again on the same charge because the prosecution was unhappy he was acquitted, has been postponed to...

Greece's major opposition party Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) leader Alexis Tsipras has lambasted Prime Minister and New Democracy Conservative leader Antonis Samaras for staying with austerity measures ordered by international lenders even though the International Monetary Fund...