The heated Parliamentary debate that ended in a vote to investigate former finance minister George Papaconstantinou over the removal of three of his relatives names from a list of Greeks with secret Swiss bank accounts is still going on. Panos Skourletis, the spokesman for the major opposition Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) party called [...]
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Alter TV Owner Fined, No Jail Time
Andreas Kouris, owner of a Greek television station Alter that shut down after not paying its workers has been found guilty of not paying the state some 9.17 million euros ($14.8 million) deducted from the employees check for health care and social security contributions, but was given only a suspended four-year sentence and a fine [...]
Some Greek Companies Duck The Haratsi
While working Greeks are lining up to pay a doubled property tax being put into their electric bills, critics are arguing that some businesses and the wealthy are avoiding it. The levy is being called a “haratsi,” after a Turkish tax that was hated by Greeks during the Ottoman Occupation. The tax is being collected [...]
Greek Journalist Konstantinos Bogdanos Attacked by Hooded Men
Konstantinos Bogdanos, TV presenter hosting an informative show on the Greek Channel SKAI, was attacked and beaten up in downtown Athens sometime after midnight. The Greek journalist was attacked by three strangers who began beating him without obvious reason. The three men threw him to the ground and started punching and kicking him. Bogdanos covered [...]
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Calendar – Exhibits, Concerts, Fun
- Taste of Paris in Athens June 19, 2013
- Video Captures ERT Workers Anguish June 19, 2013
- Greek-Australian Conferences in Thessaloniki, Lemnos June 18, 2013
- 35th River Party at Aliakmonas June 18, 2013
