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CEO of Greece’s Privatization Fund (TAIPED) Resigned

 CEO of Greece’s privatization fund (TAIPED) Costas Mitropoulos resigned on Thursday afternoon. According To Vima, Mitropoulos will officially submit his resignation on upcoming Monday and he will explain the reasons for his decision. The daily stresses on its online edition that Prime Minister Antonis Samaras wanted anyway to replace high-ranking …

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Greek Gov’t Hires an Army of 49 General Secretaries

A miracle happened overnight. The Greek government swelled and doubled itself.. After several days of consultations between the coalition government partners Nea Dimocratia, PASOK and Democratic Left, the names of the General Secretaries assigned to the country’s ministries were announced: An army of 49 people!  9 more than the 40 ministers. …

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Merkel Gives Greeks “Just a Couple of Weeks” Extension to Meet Deficit Goals

What if the Greek government tries to get together a ‘national negotiation team’. What if Prime Minister Antonis Samaras is willing to go to Brussels together with his coalition partners Evangelos Venizelos (PASOK) and Fotis Kouvelis (Democratic Left) and renegotiate the bailout programme face to face with Greece’s lenders. Athens is reportedly to ask two …

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Greek Deputy Minister: “I Came to Your TV-Show Because I Have Nothing to Do at the Ministry”

Greek Deputy Health Minister Fotini Skopouli is claiming the “Oscar for Sincerity”. She appeared in the morning magazine of state broadcaster NET TV on Tuesday. What the professor for Pathology-Immunology at the Harokopio University said stunned the journalists and the viewers alike – and more than those, Samaras’ government as well. “I came to …

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HRW: Greek Police Ignore Rising Attacks On Migrants

The Greek authorities are failing to tackle a rising wave of xenophobic violence that has left migrants afraid to walk the streets. In the 99-page report, “Hate on the Streets: Xenophobic Violence in Greece,” the Human Rights Watch documents the failure of the police and the judiciary to prevent and punish …

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Samaras & Greece’s Coalition Government Win Vote of Confidence

Prime Minister Antonis Samaras and his coalition government won the vote of confidence. As expected all 179 MPs from conservative Nea Dimocratia, socialist PASOK and Democratic Left voted in favor of the government programme.  121 MPs from the opposition voted “No”. Now we have to see whether the government will start …

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Tsipras Calls Samaras’ Coalition Government “Merkelists”

Main opposition leader Alexis Tsipras from left-wing SYRIZa called the party leaders of Samaras coalition government “Merkelists”. During the debate on the government programme, Tsipras criticized the coalition government  stressing that the politics of Memorandum of Understanding leads Greece out of the euro. Addressing the three leader of the coalition …

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Left Parties Abandon Parliament Hall When Golden Dawn Leader Starts Speaking

This was never seen before in the Greek parliament. Hardly had speaker Vaggelis Meimarakis invited Nikos Michaloliakos, leader of extreme-right Golden Dawn (Chrysi Avgi) to take the floor, immediately more than 100 MPs stood up. However for very different reasons.    Various Greek MPs abandon Parliament to protest Golden Dawn Party leaders and 71 MPs from main opposition …

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Outrage Over €1,000 Elections Bonus for Greek Parliament Employees

HA! If that’s not a provocation for the majority of Greeks  especially those  in the private sector struggling to make ends meet… Parliament speaker Vyron Polydoras approved to pay to parliament personnel an flat allowance of 1,000 euro due to overtime work because of the two elections in May and …

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PM Samaras Meets the Troika, Finance Minister Sworn-in

Slowly and gradually Greece got its government complete. Yiannis Stournaras was sworn-in as Finance Minister on Thursday morning and thus under the presence of Prime Minister Antonis Samaras. He made his first official appearance after his eye surgery almost two weeks ago. Antonis Samaras seemed in good mood even thought …

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