I try to paint in my mind the picture… How a fictive scenario would look like in reality: two, three, four… trucks full of thousands fresh-printed banknotes in US-Dollars parked near a border post to Greece – in Albania, FYROM, Bulgaria or Turkey. Bored and unsaved truck drivers, resting their feet on the wheel, chewing …
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Crisis Talks in Berlin: Greek PM Samaras Urgently Needs a “Success”
Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras is holding a face-to-face meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. The Greek PM is seeking to extent Greece’s time to meet bailout-imposed fiscal targets. Samaras needs two more years. For the economy to breath, as he said recently. then the recession has hit the debt-ridden …
Read More »EU-Appointed Slovac to Greek Government Resigns Over Corruption Allegations
Anna Bubenikova. An esteemed member at the European Commission experts panel to advise the Greeks on how to privatize their public assets. Member of the board of Greek Privatization Company (Assets Development Fund) since summer 2011. Appointed by the European Commission to advise the Greek government on how to get rid of public …
Read More »Greek Tourism Minister: V.A.T. in Restaurants/Catering to Decrease in 2013
One by one the governments’ pre-elections promises vanish in the air under the sober reality of yawning state cash registers. The Value Added Tax in the restaurants and other catering businesses will be decreased from 23% down to 13% not this year but … next year. So said Greek Tourism Minister …
Read More »Greek Government Crisis No 2: The Hot Potato of “Labour Reserve”
Greece’s three-party coalition government faces a new test. The cohesion of Samara’s government is under strong pressure due to some measures essential to reach the volume of 11.5 billion euro spending cuts. Precisely the issue of “labour reserve” in the public sector threatens to bring Greek government into falling apart. Two junior government …
Read More »Greek Government Collapsed Averted, Partners Agreed on €11.5 Billion Cuts
The three partners of the Greek coalition government partners finally agreed upon the 11-billion euro austerity package, even though Venizelos (PASOK) and Kouvelis( Democratic Left) had their reservations. “I disagree but I am forced to accept. We will not take the country to elections,” Venizleos said after the meeting with …
Read More »Tsipras Calls on Greek Government to End Talks With Troika
Main opposition leader and Syriza chief Alexis Tsipras called on Greek government to end any discussion with the representatives of the EC-ECB-IMF troika, and propose an EU Summit meeting to focus on a different strategy for Greece. Addressing the Syriza parliamentary group on Monday, Tsipras voiced his party’s determination …
Read More »ECB Stopped Accepting Greek Bonds & Other Collateral
The European Central Bank turned up the heat on Greece on Friday ahead of a review of its bailout programme, saying it would stop accepting Greek bonds and other collateral used by Greek banks to tap ECB funding, at least until after the review. The ECB move, which analysts …
Read More »Survey: 51% of Greeks Believe Coalition Gov’t “Unable to Resolve Country’s Problems”
Most Greeks believe their new coalition government is unable to resolve their near-bankrupt country΄s problems, according to the first poll published after the repeat elections on June 17, 2012. The poll conducted by Public Issue for Skai TV found 51 percent of Greeks believe the government is unable to tackle …
Read More »Non-Stop Austerity Measures: Greek Gov’t Takes Advantage of Voters “Gold Fish Memory”
The majority of Greeks felt an icy-cold electro-current coming down their spinal cord, when they heard new Greek Finance Minister Yiannis Stournaras speaking of the necessity that the state collects 3.5 billion euro in revenues and thus as soon as possible. Greeks – and many other voters’ masses around the world – tend to …
Read More »Greek Finance Minister Stournaras to Meet Eurogroup Inquisition
Greek Finance Minister Yiannis Stournaras is getting ready to take a seat at the bench of the Eurogroup Inquisition on Monday afternoon in Brussels. In his first appearance at the Euro Zone ministers’ council, Stournaras will be exposed to immense pressure as his EZ colleagues will wave the bailout-installment of 31.5 billion euro right in front of …
Read More »Greek Parliament: 300 MPs Were Sworn-in; When Will Samaras Get Confidence Vote?
Greece’ new parliament finally convened on Thursday. 300 MPs elected in June 17 elections were sworn-in in a religious ceremony. Even thought members of left-wing SYRIZA and communist KKE refrained form taking a religious oath. Three Muslim MPs were sworn-in to the Quran. The ceremony took place in absence of …
Read More »Greek Political Parties to Get a State Injection of 50 Million Euro
Greece got money! Not for the citizens, but for the political parties that entered the parliament after the June 17 elections. Even for one party that did not manage to pass the 3% threshold. The generous Greek state will subsidize the eight parties will millions of euro, in times where… …
Read More »Is the Greek Government … Cursed?
The start for Greece’s coalition government that emerged after the June 17 elections could not be worst. Just one day after the new government of Nea Dimocratia, PASOK and Democractic Left was sworn-in, a series of “unlucky” incidents started to occur: -PM Antonis Samaras was hospitalized due to retinal detachment. …
Read More »Shhh…. Greek Government is Hospitalized as Outstanding Issues Need Urgent Solutions
Two top brasses of the new Greek coalition government are in hospital – the Prime Minister and the designated Finance Minister. After an eye surgery Antonis Samaras has been ordered to stay at home. Vassilis Rapanos’ conditions are surrounded by a mystery. Rumors are high, he may not be sworn-in after all. The …
Read More »Greek Government’s Targets to Re-Negotiate Bailout Programme
Greece’s coalition government of Nea Dimocratia, PASOK and Democratic Left published its joint programme aiming to undo some austerity measures. Measures demanded by the Troika of IMF/EU/ECB and have been signed by Samaras in the second bailout agreement. The ambitious programme aims at tax cuts, extra help for the poor and unemployed, …
Read More »Guest Post: “The Villains, the Benefactors and the Greeks”
KTG received this guest post by a young Greek woman living in the UK. Evi Marami, 30, an education psychologist, felt the need to write right from the heart her thoughts about the results of June 17 elections and the disturbed relations between the Greeks and their lenders. Cartoon about Greeks’ election dilemma The …
Read More »Athens: More than One out of Two Greek Policemen Voted for Golden Dawn
The majority of Greek policemen in Athens voted for extreme-right Chrysi Avgi (Golden Dawn). “More than one out of two policemen voted for Chrysi Avgi” reports Proto Thema two days after June 17/2012 elections, describing the finding as “impressive”. These findings emerged after analyzing elections results in voting centres of Greece’ …
Read More »Eurogroup Juncker Warns Greek Voters of “Unforeseeable” Consequences for EZ
I upload this post just in case you have missed some internvention from abroad to the democratic procedure of free Greek elections. Eurogroup head Jean-Claude Juncker warned Greek voters no to turn their backs to euro. Speaking to Austrian newspaper Der Kurier, Juncker claimed that “a win by anti-bailout radical leftists in a …
Read More »When Greek Voters Hold the World Destiny in their Hands, the Dilemma is: Doomsday-Salvation, Left-Right, Drachma-Euro
Athens. Friday, June 15, 2012. Six o’ clock in the afternoon. Two days before the elections. I am sitting in front of my pc. The sun is shining with full power on the walls of my office. A fan fights to get me a breath. The cat insists on laying on my …
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