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Striking Athens
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I arrived to Athens a few days before the start of the EGP’s council, intending to walk the streets and get some feeling of the people. Greece nowadays is one of the battle fronts of the european project. Much is a stake. The European Union has giv...
All is calm in the EZ…or is it?
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All is relatively quiet in the eurozone these days – or at least that is what you might think, speaking to portfolio managers over the past few months. German chancellor Angela Merkel has visited Greece, Ireland has re-entered the bond markets...
National Bank Of Greece And Argentina Banks Lead Stocks Lower Commencing The Age Of Fiat Asset Deflation … The US Dollar Rises Putting An End To The Milton Friedman Free To Choose Floating Currency Regime And Investment Prosperity …. Diktat Is Rising To B
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Combined financial market report for the month of October 2012 and the first week of November, ending November 2, 2012. On Wednesday, October, 31, 2012, the National Bank of Greece, NBG, fell strongly, forcing Greece, GREK, sharply lower; and also,...
A big week for Greece - but still few answers
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As we noted in our press summary today, this week is lining up to be another big one for Greece.The Greek government faces two crucial votes in parliament – first on Wednesday to push through the latest package of structural reforms (as demanded by...
EETT consults on the incumbent's proposed VPU offer
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The Greek NRA launched its consultation on the technical and operative aspects of OTE's proposed Virtual Partial Unibundling offer (in greek).
Thriller in Athens: Justice Minister and European Commission block Troika measures
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According to a report posted earlier today in enikos.gr news portal, Justice Minister Antonis Roupakiotis (a technocrat proposed by Democratic ... Continue reading...
Euro Worries About a Greek Haircut
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For the euro, this could be a haircut too far. The single currency has already started to pay the price, tumbling to nearly a two-month low against the dollar on fears Greece will fail to achieve its fiscal obligations and its creditors will have to...
Is it money or reforms they are after?
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Yanis Varoufakis's latest article states that the Greek government should only cut about 2.5 billion euros, which is the nation's primary deficit at the moment, and then renegotiate the loan agreement with the Troika. Although it does sound like a go...
An emergency program for Greece
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The Greek government, under intense pressure from the troika of its lenders (IMF-EU-ECB), is about to give the wheel of depression another, powerful turn. At a time when national income is shrinking at a rate not seen since the Great Depression in an...
Greece flirts with tyranny and Europe looks away
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Article by Nick Cohen, published on The Observer, on November 4, 2012 When those madcap Scandinavian satirists awarded the Nobel peace prize to the European Union, they let everyone in on the joke by praising its commitment to “reconciliation,...
Gorgeous Greek Gorges
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In Greece there are many exceptionally beautiful gorges scattered throughout various parts of the country, both on the mainland as ... Continue reading...
The EGP on its way to Athens!
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The Individual’s Supporters Network (ISN) of the European Green Party (EGP), together with the Federation of Young European Greens (FYEG) and the ENGS (European Network of Green Seniors), is doing its way to the EGP Autumn council (Athens, 9-11...
Greece flirts with tyranny and Europe looks away | Nick Cohen
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Greek democracy is in peril and much of the fault lies with the EU's hard stanceWhen those madcap Scandinavian satirists awarded the Nobel peace prize to the European Union, they let everyone in on the joke by praising its commitment to "reconciliati...
Draft budget: Greek economy to shrink by 4.5% in 2013
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The country’s general government deficit is expected to fall to 5.2 pct of GDP in 2013, slightly improved from the ... Continue reading...
Unthinkable? Kostas Vaxevanis becomes Greece's top taxman | Editorial
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The Athens government should give him one of the most important tasks in the country – cracking down on tax evasionThis was the week Kostas Vaxevanis could have gone to jail, but emerged instead as a free man – and a hero. Last Saturday, the edit...
Another disastrous budget for Greece
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This week saw the release of the Greek budget plan for 2013-2016 and it did not make for happy reading. The English version is yet to be released but below we reproduce some of the key facts and figures from the Greek report. The table below essentia...
Fixing Greek Debt Still Elusive
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In a string of meetings beginning next week, European leaders will again wrestle with how to keep Greece from running out of cash, but they almost certainly won't solve the far bigger question of how to cut down the growing pile of debt that is slowl...
Google’s Doodle for November 2nd : Odysseas Elytis
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Odysseas Elytis, one of Greece’s most prominent poets, the Literature Nobel Prize laureate of 1979 is today’s doodle in Google’s ... Continue reading...
Greek austerity: Change can only come from the Greeks not from the troika
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The Parthenon in Athens. Picture credit: Wikipedia There has been a plethora of information concerning the Greek crisis in particular and Greek political life in general, over the last 2-3 years. There is no real added-value in me attempting to repr...
A small victory for press freedom in Greece’s struggle against its cleptocracy
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A couple of hours ago, Kostas Vaxevanis, editor of HOT DOC, was acquitted by an Athenian court for having published the so-called Lagarde List. The charge was that he violated data protection legislation by publishing a list of more than two thousand...
Kostas Vaxevanis free after found innocent from the court
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Kostas Vaxevanis, journalist and editor of Hot Doc Magazine was found innocent earlier by the Greek court; Vaxevanis was accused ... Continue reading...
Google Art Project intergrates more Greek Museums
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Google announced earlier this week the second phase of Google Art Project ; the programme aims to offer the users ... Continue reading...
Tax Evasion Case Emerges as Latest Headache for Greece’s Coalition
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A Greek journalist at the center of a tax evasion and media censorship controversy has emerged as the latest headache for Greece’s fragile ruling coalition. Costas Vaxevanis was already a well known investigative television journalist in Greece...
Seven Days in Europe
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Dominating European news this week has been the naming and shaming of tax cheats in a Greek magazine, and the resulting fallout. Journalist Costas Vaxevanis was arrested on Sunday for publishing the names of 2,059 Greeks with Swiss bank accounts R...
The end of PASOK
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Founded in 1974 by Andreas Papandreou and having been the dominant political party in the fifth Hellenic Republic, PASOK (Panhellenic ... Continue reading...
Wedding Party at Petrol Station with Greece in Crisis
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In a blog post entitled “Crisis wedding in Greece”, Belgian freelance photographer Nick Hannes posts the story of a bride and groom in Patras, Peloponnese who decided to hold their wedding party at the groom's petrol station. “This...
Poor Greece... (Literally)
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At last, the outline for the new austerity measures has been agreed with Troika and presented yesterday... Good news for Troika, horrible news for the Greek people. Greece's next economic model. So unfortunately true... Source: Wikimedia Commons...
Samaras tripartite Governement fails to pass reforms in Parliament
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Today’s crucial vote in the Greek Parliament on a series of reforms imposed by Troika , ended up as a ... Continue reading...
Finance Minister Stournaras : “Greece will become Northern Korea”
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Greek Finance Minister Yiannis Stournaras seems to follow the “tradition” of his predecessors of PASOK party, George Papakonstantinou and Evangelos Venizelos, ... Continue reading...
The Tragic Greek Cycle
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What's Greek for "plus ca change..."? The French expression, which translated means "the more things change, the more they stay the same," has never been more apposite than with reference to Greece right now, writes columnist Alen Mattich.
Weekly Wrap Up: The Greek Straitjacket
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So here’s our first edition of the Weekly Wrap Up. No more Daily Digest – just a weekly wrap, every Wednesday at 2 pm. Remember to join our mailing-list in the top-right corner to make … Continue reading →...
Press Freedom abuses continued in Greece while journalists are on strike
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Following HOT DOC Magazine ’s editor Kostas Vaxevanis arrest on Saturday after publishing the famous “Lagarde list” of 2.059 Greek politicians, ... Continue reading...
Greece expresses regret over assaulted Korean tourist in Athens
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SEOUL, Oct. 30 (Yonhap) The Greek government has expressed regrets over a Korean tourist who was allegedly assaulted by police ... Continue reading...
Former City yuppies arrested; a Greek “success story” that ended in prison
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In early September 2011, surprised viewers in Greece were watching the former Finance Minister and current leader of PASOK party, ... Continue reading...
Greece gave birth to democracy. Now it has been cast out by a powerful elite | Kostas Vaxevanis
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The case against me and my magazine, Hot Doc, for publishing a list of alleged tax evaders is a symptom of the corruption of a nation"The more laws a country has, the more corrupt it is," the Roman historian Tacitus used to say. Greece has quite a fe...
Man was threatening to blow up outside the Presidential House in Athens
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A man around 40 alarmed Greek Police earlier today, while standing outside the Presidential House in Athens downtown, threatening to ... Continue reading...
Greece: Public TV Journalists Fired After Criticizing Minister
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On October 29, two journalists, Kostas Arvanitis and Marilena Katsimi, were fired by the Greek Public Television (ERT) after analyzing claims by British newspaper The Guardian of police torture of Greek anti-fascist protesters in Athens, and criticiz...
Another PM Samaras unsuccessful bluff or are we closer to Grexit?
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According to reports posted earlier today by some Greek news portals, the situation regarding the next Troika (IMF-EU-ECB) loan payment ... Continue reading...
Revising the Greek bailout: Two more years of extend and pretend?
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Open Europe published a new flash analysis on Friday, which looks at the prospects of a revision to the Greek bailout. It now looks almost certain that Greece will receive a two year extension to its fiscal consolidation and reform programme. Howeve...
New case of Press Freedom abuse in Greece
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Only two days after the arrest of Kostas Vaxevanis, journalist and editor of HOT DOC Magazine, after publishing the list ... Continue reading...
Greek Journalist Arrested for Publishing List of Alleged Tax Evaders
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Greek journalist and editor of Hot Doc magazine, Kostas Vaxevanis, tweeted his arrest and posted a video message [el] a few hours after his magazine published a leaked list of over 2,000 names of Greeks with bank accounts in Switzerland, allegedly...
October 28th 1940 : Greece’s win over fascism now and then
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to my beloved grandfather October 28th, one of Greece’s two official national days, honors the start of the Greek-Italian ... Continue reading...
#Freevaxevanis; Greek Police issued an arrest warrant for journalist Kostas Vaxevanis
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In this current issue of HOT DOC Magazine, its editor Kostas Vaxevanis published a list of 2.059 Greek citizens who ... Continue reading...
Deputy Health Minister Marios Salmas threatens Pharmacists Union President
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According to a report , posted earlier today in iatronet.gr news portal, Athens Pharmacists Union President Mr. Konstantinos Lourantos sent ... Continue reading...
The Irish Left welcomes the Greek. A weekend of debate!
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Last weekend I was given the excellent opportunity to work as a translator for a Greek SYRIZA MP, Mr. Yannis Stathas in his visit to Ireland. He was invited to give a series of talks in Ireland by the ULA (United Left Alliance) party, with the suppor...
Greekileaks 2: The new draft MoUs for Athens
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A woman walks by Greek anti-bailout graffiti in central Athens earlier this week. For those who really want to get into the nitty gritty of the revised Greek bailout, we’re also posting two other documents we got our hands on and used for today’s...
Greekileaks: German-backed plan for Greek bailout
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Germany's Angela Merkel, left, with Greece's Antonis Samaras during her Athens visit. With Athens and the so-called “troika” of international lenders close to a deal on an overhauled bailout that would extend the programme by two years,...
Discussing Greece and Europe on Business Spectator; interviewed by Robert Gottliebsen
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Robert Gottliebsen, one of Australia’s leading business and economics journalist, interviewed me recently in Melbourne for Business Spectator. Like many anglosaxon business commentators, Robert clearly thinks that Greece is facing an impossible...
The Greek Tragedy Is Extended
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I can remember being asked by a friend back in June what was going to happen with the euro for the rest of this year. That is the kind of question that I normally try and fend off, but I was feeling a little vulnerable that day and so I just blurted...
Absorption rates in Greece- 38,35% in August 2012
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Tags: Absorption ratesGreeceAttachment: Kopie von Greece absorbtion rates august2012 (2).pdfCountries_2: GreeceTopics_2: Absorption Rates...
The desperation of Europe's wage austerians | Ronald Janssen
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European leaders hailing a Greek export miracle base their case on a statistical correction rather than hard dataIt seems too ridiculous to be true but here at the margins of the EU Summit, European leaders are actually claiming that their strategy i...
Commissioner Hahn encourages the set-up of regional management structures in Greece (2014-2020)
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In the speech delivered to the Governors of the Greek Regions, Commissioner for Regional Policy Johannes Hahn discussed the opportunity of setting-up regional management bodies for the future programming period.' It is worth considering using the ne...
Alleged corruption in Greece and the very mysterious “Laguarde list”
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By Ilektra Tsakalidou “When the wind blows, the leaves whisper”, Jonathan Shapiro, Deputy Operations Manager and Senior Institutional Integrity Officer at World Bank Group reminded students of the Johns Hopkins School of International Affairs (SA...
Cartoon: Economic Crisis and the Nazis in Greece
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Greece: Petition to Remove Golden Dawn MP from Non-Discrimination Committee
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The Golden Dawn party has become notorious for its blatant anti-Semitic and xenophobic rhetoric and has been responsible for perpetrating attacks against Jews and foreigners.” The European Union of Jewish Students have created a petition urging th...
