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Alexis Tsipras, leader of Greece’s major opposition party the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) which is opposed to international bailouts and the austerity measures that come with them, is due to meet European Central Bank (ECB) Executive Committee member Jörg Asmussen this week in Germany. Tsipras was invited by left-wing party Die Linke. Asmussen […]
Former Greek finance minister George Papaconstantinou, indicted two months ago by Parliament over his handing of a list of 2,062 Greeks with $1.95 billion in secret Swiss bank accounts, will find out soon whether he will have go to to court over the charges. The newspaper Kathimerini said that a judicial council is reportedly close […]
Paulo Nogueira Batista, Brazil’s representative to the International Monetary Fund, who abstained from a vote granting more aid to Greece after he said the idea it could be paid back was “delusional,” was recalled by Finance Minister Guido Mantegna to explain himself but it was reported he won’t lose his position at the agency, where […]
Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras’ hope that international lenders will yet agree to cut Greece’s debt even if it makes them take losses is still alive, at least with International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde, who said Europe should find a way to help Greece meets its fiscal targets. The IMF, along with the […]
Getting ready to transfer or fire up to 40,000 public workers over the next two years on the orders of international lenders, Greece is finally going after those who’ve been disciplinary problems or been wrongdoers at work. Some 104 civil servants were fired in June, four more in one month than the previous 11 months […]
The investigation into the so-called Lagarde List of 2,062 Greeks with $1.95 billion in the Geneva, Switzerland branch of HSBC has reportedly found that at least 20 top government officials are hiding assets of as much as 3 million euros in the names of their wives or other family members. Former finance minister George Papaconstantinou […]
Former finance minister George Papaconstantinou will face a panel of judges on charges of tampering with a document and breach of duty after being indicted by the Greek Parliament in a secret ballot so lawmakers names wouldn’t be revealed. The charges up to life in jail if for a conviction. The lawmakers ratified a narrow […]
A Greek Parliamentary committee investigating the handling of a list of 2,062 Greeks with $1.95 billion in secret Swiss bank accounts that has never been checked for possible tax cheats has recommended former finance minister George Papaconstantinou be charged with forging documents and breach of duty for his role. He had denied any wrongdoing as […]
Former Finance Minister Giorgos Papaconstantinou refused to appear again before a Parliamentary committee investigating his handling of a list of 2,062 Greeks with $1.95 billion in secret deposits in Swiss bank accounts, saying it has already decided to indict him and that he’s the victim of a political witch hunt to blame someone for the […]
If a growing political crisis surrounding the Greek coalition government over the closing of the national broadcaster ERT by Prime Minister Antonis Samaras- a move that made him lose the support of his coalition partners – leads to early elections, it could stop the investigation of former finance minister George Papaconstantinou’s handling of a list […]
Three cousins of former Greek finance minister George Papaconstantinou – whose names were erased from a 2,062 Greeks with $1.95 billion in secret Swiss bank accounts reportedly evaded more than 5.3 million euros ($7 million) in taxes, according to a report from the financial crimes squad SDOE given to a parliamentary committee investigating his handling […]
The spokesman and a Member of Parliament for the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party, Ilias Kasidiaris, whipped up controversy while addressing the body after he suggested that he – like his party leader Nikolaos Michaloliakos - is a Holocaust denier. During a debate about the parliamentary committee which is probing the political handling of the so-called […]