The once high-and-might PASOK Socialists will hear the result of an audit on May 9 of its deep financial difficulties that has forced a return to its previous headquarters because it can’t pay the rent on more luxurious surroundings where it’s now housed. The audit, carried out by a cluster of accounting firms, will be [...]
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PASOK Finds 114.5M Euros Missing
Already not paying back hundreds of millions of euros in bank loans despite getting big grants from state coffers, the PASOK Socialist party is scrambling to find out what happened to 114.5 million euros ($149.2 million) that officials said they can’t find. The party’s political council is set to meet next week to discuss the [...]
Papandreou Won’t Testify On Lagarde List
Former prime minister George Papandreou has said he won’t appear before a parliamentary committee investigating a list of 2,062 Greeks with $1.95 billion in secret Swiss bank accounts that was never checked for tax evaders at a time his administration was imposing big pay cuts, tax hikes and slashed pensions on the populace on the [...]
Papandreou Becomes A Mythbuster
Pilloried for his abbreviated two-year tenure that ended in November, 2011 when he resigned in the face of relentless protests, strikes and riots against austerity measures he imposed on the orders of international lenders, former prime minister and previous PASOK Socialist leader George Papandreou says in a 52-page text that the criticisms are unwarranted. Published [...]
Former MPs Change Jobs and Lives
A Greek Member of Parliament’s job is well-paid with a lot of perks, even after some symbolic cuts as they approve austerity measures that have impoverished much of the rest of the populace. But when they are not in office anymore, what do they do? Former PASOK Socialist MP Christos Magoufis said he’s thinking of [...]
Former Greek PM Papandreou Το Let
George Papandreou is now at your disposal. Just pay (again and as always) the required amount of money and you can have him deliver a fluent speech in your gala or next weekend gathering on whatever topic you may like including Europe’s future, the Greek crisis and its impact, the democratic deficit in Europe and [...]
Papandreou: Greece Wouldn’t Have Needed A Bailout If It Wasn’t For Tax Havens
Former Greece prime minister George Papandreou has said his country might have avoided a bailout if the economy had not been robbed by funds being funneled to tax havens. Papandreou told the opening of Socialist International’s four-yearly conference that $21 trillion was hidden in tax havens around the world. “Whether it is in developed or [...]
George Papandreou Falls From Bicycle… Again
Former Prime Minister and PASOK leader George Papandreou had a bicycle accident once again, according to DEMOCRATIA daily. Last Thursday, Papandrou fell from his bicycle causing him to suffer minor injuries. His accident was far less severe than last time, back in April 2008, when he broke a finger and fractured a vertebra, as he [...]
Εx-PM Papandreou: Samaras and Tsipras, “Two Sides of Same Coin”
With two days until the elections in the country, Greece’s former Prime Minister, George Papandreou, has made an appeal to the Greek people, saying that the country’s current objective must be to implement widespread reforms. Writing on his personal website, Papandreou said that Greece “must demonstrate to its partners credibility and a capacity of solvency, [...]
George Papandreou: Greece Has “a Few Weeks” Before its Government Runs Out of Money
Former Prime Minister George Papandreou of Greece spoke with Bloomberg TV’s Sara Eisen, saying that Greece has “a few weeks” before its government runs out of money and that this is a “make-or-break” period. Papandreou went on to say “I did all that I could do” and that the “personal costs” were “worth it” to [...]
Papandreou: “Greece is Not the Problem”
George Papandreou, the former Greek Prime Minister talking to CNN, said that, “Many people have been pontificating, and patronizing, and moralizing, and scapegoating, saying you Greeks, you are the problem. I would say we Greeks have a problem. We are not the problem.” On the Amanpour program, Papandreou fired back at those who believe Greece [...]
Notebook of Imprisoned Tsochatzopoulos Names Politicians and Journalists He Met With
Akis Tsochatzopoulos is the former Greek politician and minister who remains imprisoned on financial fraud charges. Tsochatzopoulos, according to accusers, appears to own an offshore company, to which he, in cooperation with many other relatives and businessmen, transferred money illegally. This great amount of money is assumed to have been earned via illegal transactions he [...]
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Calendar – Exhibits, Concerts, Fun
- Contemporary Theatrical Adaptation of Homer’s Iliad May 22, 2013
- A Greek Portfolio at The Benaki Museum May 22, 2013
- Greek-By-Choice Pedro Olalla Honored May 20, 2013
- AHEPA Day Celebration Hosted In Athens May 20, 2013
