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IMF Miscalculated Greek Austerity Effect

The top economist at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) one of Greece’s Troika of lender, has admitted that the agency didn’t calculate how devastating the austerity measures it wanted would be on the Greek economy and those of other...

Samaras Sets Qatar Investment Trip

As Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras readies a rescheduled visit to Qatar to woo investment for his cash-strapped country, his hosts are already showing interest in acquiring troubled Greek defense companies as part of a long-delayed massive privatisation. Samaras was...

Greece Probes Officials Over Lagarde List

Greek prosecutors have questioned two finance ministry officials close to former Socialist finance minister George Papaconstantinou, who is caught up in a tax scandal shaking Greek politics, judicial sources said on Jan. 4. Agence-France-Presse said the two officials worked in...

Samaras to Meet Merkel in Berlin Next Week

The German government says Chancellor Angela Merkel will meet Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras in Berlin next week. Merkel spokesman Steffen Seibert said Merkel will welcome Samaras to the chancellery on Tuesday. He said Friday that the informal meeting offers an...

Greece Fences Turkish Border But Immigrants Come By Sea

As Greece completed a 10.5-kilometer (6.5 miles) long fence on its border with Turkey along the Evros River in a bid to keep out seemingly endless waves of illegal immigrants, a small boat carrying an overload of Iraqis fleeing...

Lagarde List Shows Runaway Tax Evasion

An initial inquiry into a list of 2,062 Greeks with $1.95 billion in deposits in the Geneva, Switzerland branch of HSBC bank that has caused a political furor shows many are suspected of tax evasion, the newspaper Kathimerini reported. The...

Greece Girds for 2013: Recovery or Relapse?

With an exhausting 2012 behind him, and after ruling for half of it, Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said he believes 2013 will be the year that Greece finally begins to recover from its crushing economic crisis - with...

Greece Welcomes New Year With Wishes for Exit from Debt Crisis

Greece welcomed the New Year with wishes for a swift exit from the severe debt crisis which has brought hardship to Greek people over the past three years. Amid painful austerity and recession political leaders and citizens on the streets...

Greeks Say Tax Cheat Crackdown Failing

With more austerity measures coming and aimed at workers, pensioners and the poor, more Greeks are getting fed up with the government's failure to corral tax cheats. More than two-thirds of Greeks say their government is failing to fight...

Golden Dawn, Suleiman Head Wikipedia's Greek Hits

Based on data collected from an international survey carried out to provide details related to Wikipedia’s most visited entries (the most popular free Internet encyclopedia worldwide), the second most popular wiki of the year 2012 visited by Greeks is...