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Greek Tax Agents Meet Hostile Crowds

Restaurant and tavern owners and customers are increasingly harassing tax inspectors at a time when Greece has intensified a long-overdue crackdown on tax evasion, but officials are determined to enforce the tax laws. Residents in a village in Peloponnese barred...

One in 10 Workers Faked Resume

As it's begun the process of transferring or firing 25,000 state workers over the next two years on the orders of international lenders, the Greek government said it has found so far that 10 percent of those it hired...

Greek Workers Fear Coming Firings

After three years of austerity measures that created a record 27.4 percent unemployment rate and put 1.3 million people out of work – all in the private sector – Greece’s fragile coalition government is turning its attention to reducing...

Doukas Says Greece Can't Repay Loans

Petros Doukas, who served in the finance ministry under former premiers Konstantinos Mitsotakis and Costas Karamanlis, said Greece will have to give its international lenders at least a 40 percent loss - a so-called "haircut" - because despite $325...

Will New Democracy Become New Greece?

Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras hinted to his party faithful at the close of New Democracy’s weekend conference on June 30 that he may be ready to change more than just its identity, but its name, to New Greece. Samaras...

ND-PASOK Alliance Takes The Reins

Moving forward after the withdrawal of one of his coalition members, Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras formulated a new alliance with the other coalition partner, the PASOK Socialists, in a new cabinet that gives his partner key ministerial positions. Samaras,...

ERT Over, Samaras' Hybrid Moves On

ATHENS - After a series of talks over the shutdown of national broadcaster ERT and the firing of all 2,656 workers, Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras’ coalition has lost one of its partners, but he said he will finish...

Samaras Says Grexit Talk Over

Citing what he said was a coming turnaround and even a return to markets by next year under his tenure, Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said that talk of the country being forced out of the Eurozone, a so-called...

My Greek Drama Blasts Greek Politicians

In her biography My Greek Drama,  the woman who led the Organising Committee for the Olympic Games 2004 in Athens, Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki took shots at politicians whose paths crossed hers during that contentious time. She said the book is "a...

Four Cleared in Zachopoulos Sex Video

Six years after a so-called Sex, Lies and Videotape scandal rocked the government of then Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis, four people have been acquitted of charges they violated the privacy of former Culture Ministry general secretary Christos Zachopoulos. An appeals...