Facing pressure from his coalition partners to get behind an anti-racism bill aimed at curbing the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party, Prime Minister and New Democracy Conservative leader Antonis Samaras will meet with them on May 27. PASOK Socialist chief Evangelos Venizelos and Democratic Left (DIMAR) head Fotis Kouvelis, who almost always yield to whatever Samaras [...]
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Political Feud Holds Up Anti-Racism Bill
Greece’s coalition government is sharply divided over an anti-racism bill that is aimed at controlling the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party by imposing stricter penalties for assaults, primarily on immigrants, of which the extremists have been accused but which it denies. Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, the New Democracy Conservative leader, reportedly is going to meet with [...]
French Say Lagarde List Tax Collector
Disputing former Greek finance minister George Papaconstantinou’s assertion that a list of 2,062 Greeks with $1.95 billion in secret Swiss bank accounts he received in 2010 from then French finance chief Christine Lagarde was “unofficial and confidential,” French authorities said it was designed to be used to help find tax cheats. Papaconstantinou is now being [...]
Samaras Vows War On Unemployment
As his government is getting set to shed 15,000 public servants over the next two years on the orders of international lenders putting up bailouts, Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said his administration will bring down the country’s record 27 percent unemployment rate by attracting foreign companies to hire Greeks without jobs. “We have consolidated [...]
Golden Dawn MP With Gun In Parliament
A Member of Parliament from the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party who drove into the underground parking lot there with a gun on his passenger’s seat was asked by a police guard to put it away but drove on after telling him, “I prefer to get someone first, before they get me,” the newspaper Eleftherotypia reported. [...]
SYRIZA Back In The Lead Over ND
The major opposition party Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA), in a horse race with the ruling New Democracy (ND) Conservatives for popular support, has eked out a narrow lead over the rivals in a new poll, although the two are still are essentially tied as they have been in a slew of recent surveys. [...]
Greece To Adopt IRS Methods
With antiquated record keeping, court cases backed up a decade, and tax cheats still running rampant during a crushing economic crisis, Greece is planning to use the same kind of cross-referencing and collection techniques that make the American Internal Revenue Service (IRS) the most efficient – and feared – in the world, although it’s now [...]
New Democracy Takes Slim Lead Over SYRIZA
Prime Minister Antonis Samaras’s New Democracy (ND) Conservatives continued to hold a lead over the major opposition party Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) but by less than 1 percent in a poll conducted by the Marc/Alpha agency. ND had 21.6 percent with SYRIZA at 20.7 percent. The poll showed the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn still [...]
Greek VIP’s Will Pay For Police Guards
After having been provided free police bodyguards, some 4,200 at one point, Greek politicians, key journalists, business executives and others deemed likely targets of criminals and terrorists will have to pay for the cost if their income is more than 100,000 euros ($130,000) under a plan put forth by the government. The order came from [...]
Samaras Orders Teachers To Work Exams
Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, for the third time this year, will reportedly issue a civil mobilization order forcing civil servants to work, this one against teachers before they could even begin a strike that would have postponed the Panhellenic university entrance exams on May 17 and the following week. The previous orders were directed [...]
Corruption Prosecutors Quit, Hand Over Cases
Ongoing investigators into a myriad of corruption cases in Greece are being turned over to new special prosecutors after the two men handling them, Spyros Mouzakitis and Grigoris Peponis – who had ruffled feathers with their aggressive stance against wrongdoing – decided to step aside, declining an offer to stay in their jobs. Mouzakitis and [...]
IMF Says No Greek Debt Restructure
On the heels of issuing a report praising Greece’s progress in reforms but criticizing its failure to go after tax cheats, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), one of Greece’s international lenders, does not expect a restructuring of the Greek debt any time soon, IMF spokesman Gerry Rice said. “We do not envision any new (debt) [...]
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Calendar – Exhibits, Concerts, Fun
- Crete Hosts Talks On Ancient Novels May 23, 2013
- Velos Mutiny Honored in Special Ceremony May 23, 2013
- Contemporary Theatrical Adaptation of Homer’s Iliad May 22, 2013
- A Greek Portfolio at The Benaki Museum May 22, 2013
