Public Power Corporation

On Friday afternoon, the President of the Hellenic Republic Karolos Papoulias signed the law concerning the privatization of 30% of the Public Power Corporation (PPC). The signing of the law cancels the intention of opposition SYRIZA party leader Alexis Tsipras to ask Papoulias' intervention...

The Greek Parliament's Conference of Presidents decided on Thursday to hold a special session of the first Summer Recess section of the Parliament at 10 a.m. on Friday and determine whether or not a plenary Parliament session should be convened...

Public Power Company (PPC) union GENOP decided on Sunday to end their rolling strikes at midnight. After the strike was ruled illegal by Greek courts and the government handed out papers for the requisition of their services, PPC workers...

The Administrative Court of First Instance of Athens, Greece ruled on Friday night that the strike by Public Power Corporation (PPC) workers is illegal and abusive. Greek government ordered electricity workers back to their jobs on Saturday, by issuing a "civil mobilization...

Hoping to secure release of another installment from international lenders, this one for a billion euros, Greece's coalition government is trying to push through a series of previously-agreed reforms it has failed to implement, including allowing construction in public...

More than half a million Greeks have joined the social residential electricity tariffs offered by Greece’s Public Power Corporation (DEI). According to the data provided to the Greek Parliament by Deputy Minister of Environment, Energy and Climate Change Asimakis Papageorgiou,...

Such tales of lavish expenses defy the imagination and would be more likely found in a movie script than in modern-day Greece, yet, in the Greek public sector, this is what passes for reality. The Greek Inspectors-Controllers Body for Public Administration...

Building contractors are offering their properties at  reduced prices to find buyers for the approximately 200,000 apartments they have built over the last five years and remain empty during a crushing economic crisis. In their attempt to sell the houses...

Unable to pay the cost of electricity or a doubled property tax that is put electric bills, the power is being turned off to about 1,000 Greek households every day, the Public Power Corporation (PPC) has acknowledged, with arrearages...

Greek protesters tried to disrupt collection of an unpopular new property tax on Thursday and transport workers went on strike in a growing wave of protests against harsh new austerity measures. Unionists of GENOP, which represents workers at the Public...