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150 MEPs Ask Oettinger’s Resignation Over “Flags At Half Mast” – He Denies Comment …due to Language Problems? (video)

September 14, 2011 Comments Off on 150 MEPs Ask Oettinger’s Resignation Over “Flags At Half Mast” – He Denies Comment …due to Language Problems? (video)

A cross-political party group of 150 members of the EU parliament asked EU Energy Commissioner Minister Günther Oettinger either to apologize or to resign over his proposal to German BILD news paper that “debt sinners should fly their flags at half mast in front of the EU buildings.”. The MEPs …

EU Under TinFoilHat-Protection: No Greek Default, No Euro Exit

September 14, 2011 6

Europeans send reassuring messages just hours before the critical teleconference between Papandreou, Merkel and Sarkozy and hours after Kassandra’s bombshells heralding Greek default and pushing for exit from the euro zone. EU economic and monetary affairs Commissioner Olli Rehn said on Wednesday morning: “A Greek default or euro exit would carry …

Taxi Unionist Calls his Colleagues Not to Pay Back Bank Loans

September 13, 2011 1

Some 5,000 taxi owners from all over the country flocked outside the Greek Parliament to protest the draft bill that opens their profession. As many took their cars to reach downtown Athens the roads around Syntagma square were blocked for many hours. In fact, that was also their target: to …

Greek PM Fevers Ahead Talks with Merkel-Sarkozy on Sept 14

September 13, 2011 Comments Off on Greek PM Fevers Ahead Talks with Merkel-Sarkozy on Sept 14

Feverish meetings were held in the office of Greece’s prime ministers’ office on Tuesday ahead the teleconference of George Papandreou and German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Wednesday, Sept 14th 2011. The meeting with top economists of the country were made under the specter of an …

Theodorakis’ Resistance & Creativity Concert, Sept 16

September 13, 2011 2

Famous musician Mikis Theodorakis sounded really angry when I saw him on television. “We have to do something, the youth is absent! We have to set up tents in the area and music stages where people can come and go, exchange ideas and enjoy”. Theodorakis was featuring the Resistance and …

Greek Twitters’ Taxation Ideas

September 13, 2011 Comments Off on Greek Twitters’ Taxation Ideas

That Greeks get one tax hike after the other doesn’t mean that they lose their sense of humor. On Sunday evening, after the announcement of the extra property levy, a hashtag “Taxation Ideas” (#idees-forologias) was soon set up in Twitter and internet users didn’t miss the chance to give taxation …

Greece: Parents Seek Solutions for School Shortages

September 13, 2011 Comments Off on Greece: Parents Seek Solutions for School Shortages

Book shortages, teachers shortages, pupils transport shortages. The austerity shows its presence in what it is called “the worst school year in the history of modern Greek state”. unless you have a child at primary or secondary school, you can hardly imagine the drag of the parents nowadays. Here is a report …

Kos: “Gypsy” Found a Home!

September 13, 2011 1

Remember the black fluffy bear damped at the dogs’ kennel of Daidalos Hotel in Kos? Yes, the cute puppy given the name “Gypsy” by the hotel personnel? She found a home! One of the girls working at the entertainment section fell in love with her and convinced her mom to …

German Experts Warn of Greek Default, orderly or not…

September 12, 2011 2

The situation is critical. There is immense pressure on Greece to stick to the reforms it has agreed upon with its lenders. The weekend was a horror for the markets only due to ‘alleged bankruptcy rumors’ and a nightmare for Greeks due to the new property levy, the sixth in …

“Indignant” Greeks to Launch Protest, Sept 14th

September 12, 2011 1

“Indignant” Greeks call citizens for a protest outside the Parliament on Wednesday, September 14th 2011. In a statement they call people to a peaceful protest without political parties and ideologies, against that what politicians prepare against the people. The slogans for the protest are “No more measures, no property tax, …

Greek Austerity: One Toilet Paper per Neighborhood…

September 12, 2011 1

“One salaried per family, one book per class, one policeman per protester, one political lie per minute, one doctor per hospital, one austerity measure per day. Who said the state is not organized?” That’s a Facebook status quotation posted by a Greek. It describes very well the situation we’re experience …

Greece State Deficit Out of Control

September 12, 2011 Comments Off on Greece State Deficit Out of Control

This country makes me really wonder. After a series of taxes imposed to everything that stands, flies, crowls or swims the State Budget managed again to be in red, a nice hole of -4.586 billion euros for the execution of state budget during January-August 2011. How do they do it??? From the …