Greece

Greek Deputy Minister of Interior and Administrative Reconstruction Giorgos Katrougalos announced that the reform process of civil services in Greece should be completed in the next six months. In a recent interview with Greek newspaper Kathimerini, Katrougalos noted that...

The need for deep structural reforms in Greece is well-known. But a new OECD report indicates that Athens may be incapable of such far-reaching changes. Ministries don't communicate, officials don't keep records and oversight is virtually nonexistent. The only...

Following Antonis Samaras's resignation as New Democracy party president after the victory of the NO vote, which Samaras and the party vehemently opposed, questions arise over who will take over the party's reigns. The leadership currently lies in the hands Evangelos Meimarakis, President...

There's no end to strikes in Greece. Along with the 48-hour strike that the Panhellenic Pharmaceutical Association has announced for Monday 10 and Tuesday 11 of March, the Greek Civil Servants’ Confederation (ADEDY) has also called strikes to protest...

On Friday the 18th of October, after the meeting of the State Council for the administrative reform, the Finance Minister Giannis Stournaras sent a message to troika: “The negotiations are hard, but go on as usual. Our work too, continues...

According to a decision of its Senate, the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens is suspending all of its operations. The relevant announcement goes as follows: “The Senate of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in the extraordinary meeting of...

The new World Council of Greeks Abroad (SAE) is being organized. The draft laws are prepared and entering officially, from now until Jan. 31 for public consultation. All Greeks abroad have the opportunity to share their suggestions and ideas...

Greek Prime Minister kept most of his Cabinet intact on June 9, but shook it up a bit in the wake of his New Democracy Conservatives taking a beating in the European Parliament elections to the major opposition Coalition...

The Greek Minister of Administrative Reform and e-Governance Kyriakos Mitsotakis has received a double legal slap, from both the Council of State (CoS) and the legal department of the Greek parliament, on some critical legislative initiatives he is proposing. In...

The discussion between the heads of the Ministry of Administrative Reform, e-Governance and Troika representatives went smoothly according to a senior member of the Ministry, seeing as Kyriakos Mitsotakis received the "green light" for the prerequisites that the lenders...

The Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs, Culture and Sports, communicated to the Ministry of Administration Reform and e-Governance its plan to suspend no less than 1,655 administrative employees from universities around the country. According to the list submitted to...

The Greek government has identified 4,200 workers, mostly teachers, school janitors, crossing guards and municipal police officers who will be the first to be fired if other positions can’t be found for them. They will be put into a so-called...

After three years of protests, strikes and riots against austerity measures and the New Democracy (ND) Conservative and PASOK Socialist parties for creating Greece's crushing economic crisis and imposing pay cuts, tax hikes and slashed pensions, a new cabinet...

After repeatedly vowing he would not do so, Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras has shaken up his cabinet to reward PASOK leader Evangelos Venizelos, his remaining partner, with the key posts of Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, as...