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Scroll Down for the Latest Updates -Original Title of the post ” Greece’s new government – They play with our nerves “… But in fact Greek politicians play with their own nerves, the nerves of the media and the nerves of the Europeans. The nerves of the market investors, share holders and hedge …

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With 153 YES votes from his own deputies Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou won the confidence vote in a session full of scenarios and speculations that at a certain point they were claiming Papandreou was to resign at any minute. At the end of the day Papandreou did not step …

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Under the pressure of many of his deputies Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou is being ‘forced’ to deliver his speech a couple of hours earlier than scheduled. Not shortly before the confidence vote starts at midnight, but in good half-an-hour, at 8 pm local time. Ruling party PASOK parliamentary group …

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How about an interesting Friday evening at a bar, getting to know a real war photo reporter and admire his works in the company of nice music? International news agency Agence France Presse (AFP), the Nikon and the I.P.P.O. Bar invite you to the opening of the photo exhibition of Aris …

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Thousands Greeks queue day in, day out for a free meal, a slice of bread and a bottle of water at the soup kitchens organized by charity organisations. While until recently the majority of the needy queueing for free meals were homeless, drug addicts and illegal immigrants, the picture changed in …

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You can call it what you want. A Farce. A Drama. A Tragicomedy. Political Acrobats. Theater of the Absurd. A Crazy-House. A Poker game. A Kindergarten. The political pandemonium  that took part yesterday in Greece was beyond any of logic. It stunned foreigners and Greeks alike. The national humiliation in Cannes, the referendum-‘card’ …

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Greece is in uproar after French President Nicholas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel imposed the date and the referendum question and froze the 6th aid tranche of 8 billion euro until Greeks say YES to referendum. It was short after midnight when Merkel and Sarkozy announced the referendum conditions …

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What a glorious failure for the Greek … “Dream Team” in Cannes! EU leaders and IMF technocrats dictated that the Referendum will be held on December 4th, 2011 and that they will freeze the €8-billion aid tranche until Greeks vote YES. Furthermore they demanded that the question will not be …

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 “Blackmailing” has turned into major strategic tool among EU leaders and IMF technocrats and the ‘shock’ referendum proposal of Greek PM George Papandreou seems to backfire. It blocks the release of the six aid tranche of 8 billion euro for the payment of pensions and wages. CANNES, France(Reuters) – The European …

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An apparently “angry” Sarkozy and an allegedly “shocked” Merkel are to welcome Greek PM George Papandreou in Cannes, a “Greek side-dish” on the G20 Summit menu. Sarkozy and Merkel claim that they were stunned and taken by surprise by Papandreou’s referendum on the loan-agreement and they expressed their objection to the …

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The invitation of French President Nicholas Sakrozy to Greek PM George Papandreou had a catalytic role in the political turmoil that broke out in Greece after Papandreou announced a referendum on the loan-agreement of October 26th. With no exception all opposition parties rejected the planned referendum and retiated their demand …

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 One of the biggest newspaper in Greece closes it doors to news. “Eleytherotypia” is the first newspaper published right after the dictatorship, on July 21, 1975 and within a year it was established in one of the large circulation newspapers. The sudden but in fact rather expected end was announced on …

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