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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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Greece’s conservative party leader, Antonis Samaras (Nea Dimocratia) revealed the party’s economic programme 17 days ahead the June 17 elections. “Jobs, Jobs, Jobs” Samaras said during his programme presentation on Thursday afternoon in Athens. Jobs, no new taxes, no new horizontal cuts, cancel emergency taxes or scale them back  are …

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Conservative Nea Dimocratia leads again in a public opinion poll conducted published three days before the polls ban that  will be imposed on Sunday. According to the opinion poll conducted May 27-30, 2012 among 1,000 people by ALCO for news portal NEWSIT: ΝD: 25% SYRIZA: 22,7% PASOK: 12,5% INDEPEND GREEKS: …

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The International Monetary Fund says Managing Director Christine Lagarde is expressing regrets for her comments about Greek suffering amid the country’s debt crisis. Lagarde told Britain’s The Guardian last week she has more sympathy for poor African children  than for Greeks suffering through economic problems and austerity measures. She also …

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 Greek Alpha Bank sharply criticizes political parties and their strategies towards the Memorandum of Understanding. Discussions about government to discharge the MoU threaten the economic stability, says Alpha Bank in the weekly bulletin issued its Economic Research Department. “The Greek economy is suffering from the destabilizing tendencies of an election showdown with a …

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Nikos Michaloliakos, leader of extreme-right Chrysi Avgi (Golden Dawn) expressed his views on several important issues like the Germans, the SYRIZA or the motives of the Greek voters. Speaking to private Contra-Channel TV, Michaloliakos said that the Germans are an enslaved folk, that has totally bowed to the consuming way …

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My weight (53-55 kg) in gold. This is what I as a Greek would have to give as collateral for Euro bond issue so that Germany can give the green light to the much needed bonds of the euro zone. As I am only one out of 11 million Greeks living …

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 “Chaos” in Greece, Euro-storm in the brains of certain journalists and EU officials who keep spreading terror-lustful scenarios. “EU is planning to close the borders of Greece, should there be chaos  in the country” is the title of Austrian daily Der Standard claiming that the big fear of Europeans is mass …

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THIS we haven’t seen before: a complete tied result between the parties that come first in public opinion polls. According to public opinion poll conducted by Pulse RC for the political weekly TO PONTIKI in the ‘voting intention’ : ND 24.5% – SYRIZA 24.5% – PASOK 13.5% -INDEPENDENT GREEKS 7%, KKE 5% …

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