Apr

tagged: akis tsochatzopoulos, bribed, Greece, money launchering, submarines, trial

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Ex Defense Minister Tsochatzopoulos on trial for money laundering

With boos but also applaud the crowd outside the Athens Appeals Court ‘welcomed’ former Defense Minister Akis Tsochatzopoulos and his wife Vicky Stamati. Together with 17 other suspects, the couple enter the court room in handcuffs. It is the first time in Greece a key figure of the Greek political

Apr

tagged: 'lower instincts', Greece, Stournaras, Tsipras

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Greek FinMin speaks of “lower instincts”!?

Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Politics

“What is a lower instinct?” The question shot in my brain upon hearing Greek finance minister Yiannis Stournaras telling main-opposition party leader Alexis Tsipras of left-wing SYRIZA: You are appealing to the lower instincts and tell the people we can stay int the euro without the memorandum. This is populism

Apr

tagged: alternate ministers, government reshuffle? No, Greece, Samaras, vacancies, wate of money

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Growth is here! Greek Gov’t opens job vacancies for 6 alternate ministers

Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Politics

Growth arrived in Greece. Finally. After five years of recession. Growth is here to stay. To mark this joyful news. Prime minister Antonis Samaras opened seven job vacancies for high state positions. Published at the official government gazette are the positions for six alternate ministers for Administrative Reform, Justice, Public

Apr

tagged: consumption, decreased, Greece, heating oil, revenues, rise, winter 2012-2013

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Lucky freezing Greeks: heating oil consumption decreased 68.7%, but revenues rose

Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Economy, Society

Why did we freeze all through the winter? Because the Greek finance ministry had raised the special consumption tax in heating oil, while the tax in natural gas was raised a year before. What did the ministry win from having us on cold show? It raised more revenues – more

Apr

tagged: arrests, bangladesh, employer, Greece, Greeks, hospital, immigrants, injured, Manolada, Peloponnese, racist attacks, shot, strawberry fields, works

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Manolada: all 3 foremen involved in strawberry-workers shooting arrested

Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Society

Greek police arrested the three foremen suspected of shooting at immigrant workers demanding outstanding wages. Two of the suspects, 27 and 39 years old, were arrested at a lawyers’ office in Amaliada on Friday morning, just hours after the youngest suspect, 21, was arrested while on the street of the

Apr

tagged: bankruptcy, contagion, Cyprus, default, euro zone, German Parliament, rescue package, Schaeuble, Stournaras, voting

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German FinMin Schauble on Cyprus: confused, absent-minded or just a tricky politician?

Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Economy

We all remember German finance minister Woflgang Schaeuble claiming that Cyprus was not systemically relevant for the euro zone. His slogan was more or less that the collapse of Cyrpus’s banking sector would not affect the eurozone as the impact could not be systemically. Today, Wolfgang Schaueble claimed exactly the opposite: that

Apr

http://www.keeptalkinggreece.com/2013/04/18/manolada-strawberry-fields-shooting-updates-shot-workers-to-be-deported/

tagged: arrests, bangladesh, employer, Greece, Greeks, hospital, immigrants, injured, Manolada, Peloponnese, shot, strawberry fields, works

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Manolada: shocking video from strawberry fields shooting – injured workers to be deported

Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Society

Several people lay down, unable to move. Others suffer in pain. More people are standing exciting and speak in a language we don’t understand. The exclusive video uploaded by daily Kathimerini on its website, displays footage filmed short time after the shooting at immigrant workers near the Manolada strawberry fields

Apr

tagged: debtors, economic prisons, Finance Ministry, Greece, military camp, prison, seek, tax prisons

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Greek gov’t seeks military camp to serve as prison for state debtors

Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Economy

Gradually, Greece turns into the 21st century version of the dark and gloomy world of Charles Dickens: with households burning wood for heating, with workers working for nothing, … and to put the icing on the Greek cake, soon also with debtors’ prisons. What we reported in January, turns into reality: tax prisons! The government seeks

Apr

http://www.keeptalkinggreece.com/2013/04/17/manolada-shots-fired-on-immigrant-workers-when-they-asked-their-money-28-hospitalized/

tagged: arrests, bangladesh, employer, Greece, Greeks, hospital, immigrants, injured, Manolada, Peloponnese, shot, strawberry fields, works

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Manolada: Shots fired on immigrant workers when they asked their wages; 28 hospitalized

Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Society

At least twenty-eight strawberry field workers from Bangladesh were transferred to hospital with light injuries on Wednesday afternoon after being shot by the foremen of their employer. The incident occurred at 6 p.m. Wednesday on the 41st kilometer of the highway between Patras and Pyrgos in Peloponnese. A large group

Apr

tagged: civil servants, clientelism, close down, Greece, lay offs, merge, state organizations, useless organizations, wasting public money

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Where did Greek taxpayers’ money go? To rather useless state organizations…

Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Society

“There went the taxpayers’ money!” said a friend upon reading the list of organizations currently considered to close down or merged by the Greek government. “Research Center Kolokotronis? Institute for Cretan Law? Academy for Freedom? What are these? What do they do?” my friend started to read out loud down