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Greece
Paris Academic Lambastes Stavridis, Georgiadis
A Byzantinologist as well as first woman to become the Rector of Sorbonne University, Helene Ahrweiler-Glykatzi, had pointed words for some of Greece's political and appointed leaders who she said are not up to their jobs.
Speaking on Spiros Charitatos’...
Economy
Kouvelis Skewers Samaras, Venizelos
Democratic Left leader Fotis Kouvelis, who took his party out of Prime Minister Antonis Samaras' previous coalition government, said he walked out because the Premier and PASOK Socialist leader had conspired to set up an administration without him and...
Economy
Greek VIP's Will Pay For Police Guards
After having been provided free police bodyguards, some 4,200 at one point, Greek politicians, key journalists, business executives and others deemed likely targets of criminals and terrorists will have to pay for the cost if their income is more...
Crime
As VIP's Lose Guards, Pangalos Keeps His
Some 460 police officers assigned to guard politicians, journalists, and business executives have been taken away and returned to normal duty, but former deputy prime minister Theodoros Pangalos, a PASOK Socialist stalwart who has retired and no longer in...
Business
Cyprus' New Reality, Cash Society Without Cash
Cyprus’ sudden acquiescence to demands by international lenders to confiscate 40 percent or more of bank deposits over 100,000 euros ($130,000) and limit withdrawals, while keeping the banks shut, has turned much of the country overnight into a fright-filled...
Greece
Greek Generals Fired Over PKK Book Airing
Greek Defense Minister Panos Panayotopulos has discharged the head of the War Museum and three other generals following the presentation of a book by Murat Karayilan, a senior member of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) which is listed as...
Economy
Pangalos Says Greeks Still Eating it All Together
Former Deputy Prime Minister Theodoros Pangalos, who stirred anger when he said that the Greek economic crisis was the blame of both politicians and the people who accepted jobs from them, is stirring the waters again with a new...
Economy
Pangalos Says Greeks Are Still 'Eating It All Together'
ATHENS – He is perhaps Greece’s most outspoken politician, and as he readies to retire, veteran PASOK Socialist Theodoros Pangalos still isn’t mincing his words, nor eating them, and said he’s standing by his statement that all Greeks are...
Economy
Greeks Choice Comes Down to Samaras vs. Venizelos: Elitism vs. Arrogance
ATHENS - Before he became a disenchanted Democrat and reformed racist, and as he ran for President in 1968 on the American Independent Ticket, firebrand Alabama Governor George Wallace famously spat: “There’s not a dime’s worth of difference between...
Economy
Troika in Greece to Stay; EU Insists on Bailout Chief
ATHENS – Greeks had better get used to the idea of the international lenders coughing up the dough to keep the country from defaulting sticking around as officials of the Troika of the European Union-International Monetary Fund-European Central Bank...