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The government is discussing a road map on loosening capital controls, Economy Minister George Stathakis said in an interview with Star TV late on Monday. Stathakis underlined that the participation of the Greek banks in ECB quantitative easing programme, the...

"The conclusion of this phase inaugurates a period of stability and turn to recovery," government spokesman Olga Gerovasili said during her briefing to the press. By the end of this week the pending measures will be voted by the Greek...

The government will submit on Thursday at the relevant parliamentary committees a draft bill with the remaining prior actions and the contingency mechanism required for the conclusion of the first bailout review, the Conference of Parliament Presidents announced on Monday. The...

    There will be an agreement on concluding the review of Greece's programme on May 24, government spokeswoman Olga Gerovasili predicted on Friday in an interview with Stigma Radio 97.6, a local station broadcasting from the Ionian island of Zakynthos....

The Greek Association of Administrative Judges strongly reacted against the "long-term memorandum" whose victims are described to be workers, small businessmen and pensioners. These groups are being called to suffer the burden of the contingency mechanism, tax hikes as...

A recent article by the European Journalism Observatory, reports that "in 2015, Greece fell 50 places in the World Press Freedom Index to rank 91st. This established it as the second-lowest ranking for a country inside the European Union....

The countdown for the worst government of the post-Junta period has started, main opposition New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Wednesday in the first meeting of the new political committee. Mitsotakis said that the meeting signals a new course...

Greece's Panhellenic Federation of Journalists' Unions announced that Greek journalists will hold a 48-hour strike as a way to protest the pension reforms. The decision was made by the administrative bodies in media, who met on Monday along with Panhellenic...

Greece's main opposition SYRIZA leader, Alexis Tsipras, was profiled by Reuters in an article published today entitled "From firebrand to PM-in-waiting, Greek leftist smells power." According to this, the 40-year-old politician has recently softened his confrontational tone with Greece's...

Huffington Post recently published a Gallup survey of the “12 Countries That Hate Their Government Most." Greece ranks in third place, just behind Bosnia-Herzegovina and Bulgaria. “In many countries, lawmakers and their governments are quite unpopular. U.S. President Barack Obama’s approval...