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Greek Crisis Spiked Suicides

The number of suicides in Greece during the period 2009-2011, as  recorded by the registries and forensic services was revealed in Parliament by the Finance Minister, who quoted relevant documents of the Greek Statistical Authority. According to the data, during...

More Greek Pensioners, Jobless Than Workers

With Greek pensioners already facing big cuts under austerity measures, a report from the Ministry of Labor said the system of paying retirees is under stress because there are about a million more beneficiaries, unemployed and non-workers than workers...

Unemployment Hits 5% Increase in A Year

According to the Hellenic Statistical Authority, mostly known by its acronym ELSTAT, the Greek unemployment rate has risen to 27.4% within the first quarter of 2013. If we just take a look at ELSTAT’s latest data on unemployment in...

Tsipras Says Samaras Continues IMF Mistake

Greece's major opposition party Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) leader Alexis Tsipras has lambasted Prime Minister and New Democracy Conservative leader Antonis Samaras for staying with austerity measures ordered by international lenders even though the International Monetary Fund...

Greek Economy Shrinks 5.6% More

As Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras says he has turned the country around and sees a recovery by next year, figures released by the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT) on June 7 showed the economy contracted by 5.6 percent in...

EU Commissioner Backs Embattled Greek Data Official

EU Taxation Commissioner Algirdas Semeta on Tuesday gave his full support to the head of Greece's data service Elstat who is accused of deliberately over-stating 2009 deficit figures. "Probably for the first time in the course of many years ......

Greece Will Hire 75,000 Young

Desperately trying to slow the slide of record unemployment - now at 27 percent and with some analysts predicting it could hit 30 percent - Greece is planning to hire 75,000 young people, but not until January, 2014, Labor...

Greek Economy Just Keeps Shrinking

With Prime Minister Antonis Samaras saying that Greece's crushing economic crisis is beginning to wind down and will turn around next year with a return to the markets, economic output fell by 5.3 percent in the first quarter of...

Greek Museums Packing Them In

Hit by constant protests and riots over austerity measures in 2012, Greece’s museums saw a 2.8 percent drop in visitors, and a decline in revenues of 18.4 percent, according to the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT). However, a 15.2% increase was...

Greece Expects Record Tourism Season

With constant images of protests, strikes and riots that kept tourists away in 2012 having faded away as Greeks have relented to austerity measures, the head of the Athens-Attica Hotels Association said he expects a banner year with as...