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Greek Adoptees Fight for Citizenship, Access to Records

Linda Carol "Eftychia" Trotter, the founder of the Eftychia Project, the Greek adoptee organization which helps Greek adoptees find their birth families, met with Greece's Minister of the Interior and Minister of Labor and Social Affairs recently in Athens. The...

Six Month Goal for Greek Civil Service Reforms

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...

Couples Prefer Cohabitation Agreements Due to Crisis

Cohabitation agreements are becoming popular in Greece, due to the economic crisis that hit the country in 2009. According to the Greek registry office, since the Ministry of interior introduced the new legislation the number of couples that opt...

January 25 Elections will Cost €60 Million

The elections of January 25th are expected to cost over 45 million euros, excluding the cost of the remuneration of Greek police, estimated at 15 million. The finance ministry asked the ministry of interior to cut election costs as much as possible, following...

Greek Interior Ministry Refuses to Form Debt Collection Agency

The IMF is pressing Greece to form a private collection agency in order to recover millions of euros owed to social security funds. However, the Greek Ministry of Interior is refusing to give ground even though the debt to social...

1,500 Ballots, 40,000 Candidates To Run in Local Elections

Greece's Interior Ministry has counted 1,438 municipal ballots and 105 regional ballots that have been approved by Greece’s courts to stand in the forthcoming local elections, which are to take place across Greece on May 18 and 25. Voters will be able to choose between over...

Greece Gives Political Parties €7m for Euro Parl Campaign

A total of seven million euros will be shared among Greece's political parties for the European Parliament elections. The Party Committee met Friday at the Interior Ministry and said the half the funds will be distributed based on the results of the 2009 European Parliament elections,...

Greek Expats and Foreigners Can't Vote in Local Elections

A new circular letter issued by the Greek Interior Ministry reminds all voters that expatriates and foreigners legally residing in Greece, as well as the citizens of the member states of the European Free Trade Association (Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway...

EU Elections: Voting Process for Greeks Residing in Other EU Countries

The Greek Interior Ministry has already commenced its preparations for organizing the Greek vote in the upcoming European parliament elections for Greek citizens who reside in other EU countries and wish to exercise their electoral rights there. According to an...

Immigrants Awaiting New Law on Greek Citizenship

The bill of the Greek Ministry of Interior on the new immigration code, which features many changes and improvements, passed on Friday with a majority in the competent committee of the Greek parliament, having the support of New Democracy...