After Bloomberg currency Exchange Drachma-Test last week, HSBC bank made another test on Monday. The test was performed at the banks ATM machines in Athens. The bank confirmed the news… and I wonder how many Greeks would rush to banks and withdraw leftovers from their savings in bank deposits. HSBC …

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 The four Musketeers, Barroso (EC), van Rompuy (EC), Juncker (Eurogroup)and Draghi (ECB) are reportedly working on a …secret plan to save the euro zone from the crisis. The ambition plan that will be implemented first to EZ member countries foresees among others more EU control over national budgets, a “bank union”,  …

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Two more incidents of racists attacks took place on Friday evening in Athens just a couple of kilometers away where unknown motorcyclists stabbed a man from Albania  and two men from Poland a day earlier. Greek media report that a convoy of some 50 people on motorcycles was moving around …

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This is one of the last public opinion polls as they are banned two weeks before the June 17 elections. The poll conducted by Metron Analysis for Ant1 TV  shows a very slight lead for Nea Dimocratia but still a very strong polarisation between pro-bailout conservative ND and anti-bailout left-wing …

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 That was a weird day for many traders watching Bloomberg currency ticker featuring a post-euro …Drachma. A blinking XGD code. However those typing the code could not get much information. “The test was visible to a few customers” Bloomberg said in a statement explaining that it had tested a number …

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Nationalization of banks, halting the privatization of state-run enterprises, partial or complete debt cancellation for indebted households, wealth confiscation for those making false tax declarations: Leader of left-wing SYRIZA and main challenger of conservative Nea Dimocratia at the June elections, Alexis Tsipras revealed the party’s programme. ” We introduce our programme, a  programme …

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Every Greek and every Greek-speaking foreigner living in this country, experiencing the economic crisis and the bombardment of threats, blackmails and catastrophy scenarios by national and international politicians, officials and several other -icians struggles to escape all this mechanisms targeting to crack down the society. I am not talking so much …

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Cancer patients are in dire need of live-saving drugs as the health system in debt-ridden Greece collapses. Cancer-patients supporting NGOs, and pharmacists report of serious shortages of the expensive drugs against cancer due to a) public spending cuts b) reluctance of pharmacists to stock out of fear they won’t be paid …

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Incidents of  migrants stabbed on the streets or at public transport means have increased during the last days, with the latest two attacks to have taken place within 20 minutes. One man from Albania and two men from Poland  fell victims to what it seems to have been ‘racist attacks’.  Eyewitness …

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Is this the BBC we know? On Wednesday night, during “Newsnight” programme presenter Jeremy Paxman had invited economist and Nobel winner Paul Krugan and former Greek finance minister George Papaconstaninou via live link from Athens to discuss about the Greek crisis and the economy. However right at the beginning of …

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 A derby between conservative Nea Dimocratia and left-wing SYRIZA is being played and a thriller will most probably will take place on June 17  as for the results that will come out from the ballot boxes. In most of the public opinion polls ND slightly heads, while some show SYRIZA first. 1) …

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