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Crime
Greece Bans Commando Protest March
Fearing violence, the Greek government said it will not allow a protest march on Sept. 28 by Special Forces reservists who had called for the government to fall and be replaced by a unity administration under the protection of...
Economy
Troika Talks Break Down Again
Continuing a repetitive pattern in which Greece's international lenders threaten to withhold funds unless reforms are made - to which Greece objects and then begins to implement slowly before there's another stall - talks between envoys from the Troika...
Crime
Venizelos Says No Bailout, No Elections
Greek Deputy Prime Minister/Foreign Minister/PASOK Socialist leader Evangelos Venizelos said during his visit to New York to represent the country at the UN General Assembly that despite what Greece's lenders and many analysts say, there is no need for...
Greece
Special Forces Reservists Want Government Out
With the Greek government already probing possible ties between the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party and whether military forces are training its members, a prosecutor has ordered an investigation into a blog post on the special forces reservists' website demanding...
Economy
Greek Workers Strike Second Day
Although hundreds of previous strikes and protests against austerity measures the last 3 1/2 years have all failed, Greek civil servants took to the streets on Sept. 25 for the second day of their 48-hour general strike which is...
Economy
Greece Wants More Time To Fire Workers
Being squeezed by international lenders to pare the workforce by transferring, suspending or firing civil servants, Greek Administrative Reform Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has asked for an extension to the so-called mobility scheme until the end of the year.
The request...
Economy
Troika Doubts Primary Surplus Claim
Throwing cold water on Greece's expectations of having a primary surplus by the end of the year - not including interest, some military expenditures, social security, municipal budgets and the cost of running state enterprises, which otherwise would show...
Greece
Merkel's Message to Greece
After easily winning re-election in a runaway rout to gain a third term, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, whose country is the biggest contributor to bailouts for Greece, said she will now return to tightening the screws on the Greek...
Economy
Greece Sees Primary Surplus This Year
With envoys from international lenders in Athens checking the books before releasing more tranches in a series of rescue loans as part of a second bailout of $173 billion, the Finance Ministry said it expects to have a primary...
Crime
Tsipras Says Austerity Boosts Golden Dawn
With social unrest raging again in Greece - this time over the killing of an anti-fascist for which a member of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party was arrested - major opposition party Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) leader...