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Renaming “meat into fish” does not change anything. It’s still meat. However, Greece’s coalition government leaders decided to invent a new formula how to keep collecting the “emergency property tax” which turns permanent after Troika pressures. On Wednesday night, Prime minister Antonis Samaras and his coalition partners Evangelos Venizelos (PASOK) …

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A prosecutor has apparently evidence that makes a link between two ‘dark cases’ in Greece: the phone tapping scandal during 2004-2005 and a plan to assassinate Kostas Karamanlis, who was prime minister at that time. The plan against Karamanlis was revealed last year by the National Intelligence service (EYP) with …

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Serious questions have been raised by the intergovernmental agreement, according to which German police officers will be placed in major Greek airports to check travelers bound for Germany. The implementation of the decisions of the Lisbon Treaty and the Dublin should logically be performed by Greek civil servants and not …

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Antonis Korfiatis, 69, Greece’s car racing champion in the 70’s and 80’s committed suicide. Korfiatis was found by relatives by friends in his home. He had cut his wrists with a razor blade. the man was living alone in his home in Patras, western Peloponnese. Every day, he used to …

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Cyprus financial minister Michalis Sarris submitted his resignation short after noon on Tuesday. President Nicos Anastasiades accepted Sarris’ resignation, government spokesman confirmed. Already in the morning rumors had been claiming that a mini cabinet reshuffle was due in Cyprus, aiming mainly to replace the finance minister. Short after 3 p.m. …

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CBC News has learned that two Canadians linked to al-Qaeda and killed while staging a bloody attack on an Algerian gas refinery earlier this year were former high school friends in their early 20s, one from a Greek Orthodox family, and both from a comfortable middle-class London, Ontario, neighbourhood. A …

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Personnel at Greek trains and Proastiakos will launch 8-hour long work stoppages on April 3rd, 4th and 5th 2013 and thus from 4 p.m. until midnight. Unionists demand the signature of new collective bargain, while at the same time they oppose their subordination to the new payroll of civil servants …

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The final terms of the bailout agreement between the Cypriot government and the troika of international lenders are to be worked out and have been finalized until Thursday, in order to be approved by the Eurogroup working group. The deal is based on the bailout terms agreed last November with …

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When five Sunday newspapers speak about the safety of savers’ deposits  in their front pages, I think, it’s time we should start make thoughts about “how secured are deposits in Greece?” The Cyprus example might be “a template”, after all, as eurogroup head Jeroen Dijsselbloem recently said. Deposits in Greek …

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Happy Easter to all KTG-readers celebrating Easter on March 31st 2013! Greek-Orthodox world celebrates Jesus Resurrection on May 5th. Happy eggs hunting 🙂

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Inmates in Korydallos prison come and go in their cells whenever they want. Pictures from prison security camera, show the midnight walk of a prisoner: He climbs down to the yard from the cell window, walks a couple of steps, collects some items apparently thrown in the yard by accomplices …

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The 25th of March 2013 was an incredible adventure for passengers, dock workers, lorry driver and the captain of Adamantios Korais ferry who tried to dock at the port -?- of Kimolos by 9 Beaufort. Only the handy coordination and the skilled efforts by captain and dock workers managed the …

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