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The Federation of Greek Private Employees (OYIE) has announced a 24-hour strike on Sunday, July 13, in response to the opening of stores on Sundays in ten regions of Greece. The Federation of Greek Private Employees, the National Confederation of Hellenic Commerce (ESEE)...

The Council of State gave the green light to the construction of a mosque in Athens, Greece. The general assembly of the state council has rejected an appeal to prevent the construction of a mosque in the region of Votanikos as...

It hasn't worked yet, but Greek workers were to take to the streets on June 30 in another of hundreds of protests over austerity measures over the last four years, at the same time the government is moving to...

The seven members of the Council of State of Greece announced yesterday their decision regarding seizure of salaries and pensions of debtors owing to the State. They announced that debtors will not be informed beforehand in regards to the...

Greece’s Supreme Administrative Court has blocked the planned privatization of the country's biggest state-owned water utility, Athens Water Supply and Sewage Company (EYDAP), on the grounds that such a decision could endanger public health. The government had decided earlier in the...

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...

Amidst criticism from human rights organizations that Greece has not treated immigrants properly, Deputy Minister of Interior Leonidas Grigorakos said the government is readying a code to cut red tape in applying for citizenship and allow thousands of migrant...

Greek civil servants, upset that the country's highest court has ruled that military pay cuts imposed as part of austerity measures affecting the public sector across-the-board were unconstitutional and must be repaid, are suing to get back lump sum...

  Despite that the competent Greek Ministers anticipated the suspension of thousands of unfaithful civil servants, the General Inspector of Public Administration, Leandros Rakintzis, speaking on the Special Permanent Committee on Institutions and Transparency of the Greek Parliament, dismissed this...

After the 10-week strike at the University of Athens and the National Technical University of Athens, the federation of university administrative employees decided to go on two more 48-hour strikes despite the request to start courses on Tuesday. The...