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EP vice president to investigate Troikas’ work in four eurozone countries

November 1, 2013 1

This is going to be an evaluation, not a condemnation”, stresses Othmar Karas, Vice President of the European Parliament, who will lead the parliamentary inquiry into the work of the troika in Greece, Cyprus, Portugal and Ireland. He will do this job jointly with a French socialist. The Parliament calls …

Civil servant ‘on leave without permission’ for 5 years got full salary. Only in Greece possible?

November 1, 2013 2

An employee at the Ambulance Service (EKAV) in Northern Greece had managed to stay away from work from December 1st 2006 until November 9th 2011. He didn’t not inform anyone for his leave, neither his supervisors nor his colleagues, and started to work at the cafeteria belonging to his sister. …

Two Greek Firsts in one shot: Autumn Sales & Retail Shops open on Sunday

November 1, 2013 2

Two Greek firsts in one shot: Autumn Sales and retail shops open on Sunday. That’s the plan of Development Minister to boost the economy in the debt-ridden country. Autumn Sales start today and will last until November 9th 2013. At the same time, on Sunday, November 3rd shops will be …

EU source:Troika won’t go to Greece “because no one wants them” (via Reuters) sigh

October 31, 2013 Comments Off on EU source:Troika won’t go to Greece “because no one wants them” (via Reuters) *sigh*

Do the Troika inspectors boycott Greece? Have they put their visit to Athens on hold? Reuters reported so on Thursday afternoon citing two “eurozone sources”. According to Reuters, the Troika put its visit on hold because the Greek government rejected more austerity measures. The news of a possible postponement set …

Eurostat: 6:10 young Greeks without job, Eurozone unemployment in new record 12.2%

October 31, 2013 Comments Off on Eurostat: 6:10 young Greeks without job, Eurozone unemployment in new record 12.2%

YES! Greece of ‘success story’ tops again the Eurostat list on unemployment. Six out of ten Greeks below 25 years old are without work. Youth unemployment in Greece is at 57.3%, while the situation is equally bad in Spain with 56.5%. Within the eurozone countries the general unemployment has reached …

Here comes the “Euroflush”! EU Commission directive on standardized toilet flush!

October 31, 2013 Comments Off on Here comes the “Euroflush”! EU Commission directive on standardized toilet flush!

The European Commission has real concern about the well-being of its citizens. Our Eurocrats stoop with sincere prudence over the problems of their subservient. They look down to the poorest citizen in the most remote EU village and try their best to help him out of a deadlock situation and …

Health Minister admits: health care access for all? Not in Greece…

October 31, 2013 Comments Off on Health Minister admits: health care access for all? Not in Greece…

In a unprecedented official confession Greek health minister Adonis Georgiadis admitted that the national health care system is not for all to have access to and that the privatization of the public health care is not away. According to health care news iatropedia.gr, when asked when the National health care …

Greece’s retail workers threatened with 35%-55% wages cuts

October 31, 2013 Comments Off on Greece’s retail workers threatened with 35%-55% wages cuts

That’s a bad Halloween trick for the half a million Greek retail workers. As the collective bargain expired and the Troika forbids a new collective bargain, they are threatened with wages cuts reaching from -35% up to -55%. Employers will be glad to force their employees to sign individual employment …

Get a job via social media: Greek Twitter-user helps jobless via #aggeliesergasias

October 30, 2013 Comments Off on Get a job via social media: Greek Twitter-user helps jobless via #aggeliesergasias

“My children are abroad, my sister’s children are abroad, some other nieces too.” The lady was talking to her walking companion. “Where did they do?” the other woman asked and the first answered “Oh, one is in Paris, one in New York, one in London, one in Sweden…” I didn’t …

DNA-test proves young man in Cyprus is not missing Ben Needham

October 30, 2013 1

Police in Yorkshire revealed on Tuesday that a DNA test carried out on a Romanian young man in Cyprus has proved he is not Ben Needham, who disappeared in 1991. An anonymous source had handed in the video of the young man attending an event in a church next to a …

Lawsuit filed against ex FM Pangalos claiming Greece was tapping US-ambassadors

October 30, 2013 2

Once they belonged to the same political party, socialist PASOK. But now lawyer Agis Tatsis filed a law suit against his former socialist comrade for “exposing the country”. Just hours after former foreign Minister Theodoros Pangalos claimed during a radio interview on Tuesday morning that “Greek intelligence service (EYP) was tapping US-ambassadors in Athens …

Ex Greek FM claims “we tapped US-ambassadors in Athens & Ankara” as media picture the super bug on US-embassy roof

October 29, 2013 Comments Off on Ex Greek FM claims “we tapped US-ambassadors in Athens & Ankara” as media picture the super bug on US-embassy roof

The wonderful world of spying friends and foes is being unfolded with the NSA scandal, a world equipped with super modern surveillance units and lay light years away from the fictitious and exaggerated reports of Graham Greens’ local informants and spies. The NSA scandal reveals that US-friends have not only …