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Venizelos Says Troika Offered Grexit

In an apparent attempt to revise his role in the Greek economic crisis when he was finance minister, PASOK Socialist leader Evangelos Venizelos has claimed that the country's international lenders in 2011 offered a chance for an exit from...

Greece Fears Troika Wants Fast Firings

Inspectors from the Troika of Greece's international lenders will return to Athens next week as the uneasy coalition governments they will demand a picked-up pace of layoffs and firings to reduce the public workforce by 25,000 this year. Worried about...

Immigrants Press Children's Greek Citizenship

Immigrant children living in Greece made their case for citizenship on Feb. 27 at a news conference held at the offices of the Journalists' Union of the Athens Daily Newspapers, under the title Citizenship for All Children. "We claim citizenship...

Golden Dawn Recruiting Schoolchildren

Greece’s neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party, which has actively been recruiting high schoolers to indoctrinate them, has been giving what it calls “national awareness” lessons to elementary school students aged 6-10 to teach them “Greek ideals,” its officials have admitted. On...

Mitsotakis Says Greece Needs More Cuts

Greece needs to drastically reduce its bloated public sector and keep administering more reforms to get out from under its crushing economic crisis, Former Prime Minister Constantinos Mitsotakis, speaking at the launch of a publication about his time in...

Greece Mulls Incentives for Tax Cheats

After international lenders rejected a plan to let Greeks with undeclared income abroad return the money to Greece and pay only an 8 percent penalty, the government has now devised another scheme: giving the tax cheats incentive deposit their...

Four PASOK MP’s Return to Fold

As he approaches a critical party congress and challenges to his leadership, PASOK Socialist leader Evangelos Venizelos has allowed four Members of Parliament he had ejected for not following his orders to support austerity measures to come back to...

Greece Will Lose One Euro Lawmaker

In a restructuring of the European Parliament, Greece will lose one of its lawmakers, according to a decision taken by the Commission of Constitutional Affairs to follow the guidelines of Lisbon Treaty  signed in 2007. Changes are being made because...

Hollande Pushes Investment In Greece

French President François Hollande, visiting Athens during a media blackout and a day ahead of a general strike against austerity, gave his support to the harsh conditions he opposes in his own country and said he wanted more French...

Coalition Talks Jobs, But No Answers

The leaders of Greece’s coalition government met on Feb. 18 to discuss the country’s record 27 percent unemployment rate and how to protect the country’s most vulnerable sector who have been the most affected by austerity measures, but nobody...