Applaud! Excellent Idea! Former ruling and coalition government partner, Socialist PASOK proposes that all responsible for the two Memorandum of Understanding (Loan Agreements) and the Greek Bond swap (PSI) should testify in front of the parliamentary committee investigating the conditions and implementations of the agreements with the lenders. In a …

While Greece was sending its Reforms List to the creditors, a non-paper issued by the Prime Minister’s office created confusion as it looked as if Athens was threatening the creditors with stop serving the debt unless the bailout disbursement would be released.” An additional declaration made clear that “the threat” …

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras had a phone conversation with IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde on Wendesday. Tsipras and Lagarde talked about the Eurogroup agreement of February 20th, the reforms list as well as tax revenues and tax evasion. Largarde reportedly told Tsipras that the so-called Lagared-List was not properly used …

Two of Greece’s main lenders, managing director of International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde, and President of the European Central Bank, Mario Draghi, raised some objections and reservations to Greek Reforms List. Similar concerns were expressed by the 18 finance Ministers at the Eurogroup teleconference on Tuesday afternoon. “We call on …

Head of International Monetary Fund Christine Lagarde revealed that she received death treats when she talked about Greece and the failure of paying taxes in the past. Speaking to Financial Times, Christine Lagarde may be more cautious nowadays but yet; for one more time she criticized “the shipping industry” and …

Greeks may do bad in economics but they do great in sex! However, they don’t do as good as the Croatians who top the list of the global survey conducted by the magazine “Men’s Health”. And here I have to admit that I finally understand what IMF-Head Christine Lagarde said …

A group of chanting students protested IMF head Christine Lagarde, while she was delivering a speech on the European debt crisis. Lagarde was answering pre-approved questions of students at the University of Amsterdam, when protesters started to chant anti-austerity and anti-IMF slogans, criticizing the policies of International Monetary Fund. Lagarde …

 UPDATE: an organization that appears for the firt time claimed responsibility for the attacks. In a statement uploaded in athens-indimedia, the organization calling itsself “Cycles of violators/Cell of lawlessness lovers” claimed responsibility on Friday evening. Statement here but in Greek. Self-made devices exploded outside the homes of five well-known journalists …

 These are touching moments among eurozone finance ministers. According to UK daily the Guardian, Christine Lagarde sent an sms to her Greek counterpart George Papaconstantinou in summer 2011 – short after he was replaced from the post of Finance Minister. “We miss you!” Lagarde apparently wrote to the Greek finance minister who …

Greek tax evaders with assets abroad are wrapped up in lists. After, the Swiss Lagarde-list (2,59 names) and the British Jersey-list (97 names), two more lists have reached the Finance ministry, while a third is apparently on the way. Finance Minister Yiannis Stournaras revealed that two lists containing the names of …

Bank HSBC will most likely be the Waterloo of Greek tax evaders – to be precise: of ‘suspected Greek tax evaders’. A list with the names of 97 Greek account holders having deposits of 22.3 million euro at the HSBC branch on the isle of Jersey, an offshore heaven, is in the hands of …

 Greek journalist Kostas Vaxevanis has been acquitted by an Athens court on Thursday night in a trial that lasted almost ten hours. The prosecutor had raised charges against Vaxevanis for breaching privacy after he published the names of 2,000 suspected tax evaders in his magazine HOT DOC. Vaxevanis was arrested last Sunday. …

Veteran journalist Spyros Katatzaferis was arrested in the ealy morning hours of Wednesday on his way home after a live-broadcast on a private television channel. First reports claimed that “he was arrested due to outstanding constributions to insurance funds and for an older court decision that had charged him with libel.” …

Is this a swan song we’ve been listening here? A song sung by a corrupt political system and a society in despair? No, it’s not. Because the swan song is supposed to be beautiful even though the last one before death. But what we’re experiencin ghere is ungly. And I wouldn’t know …

With unbroken intensity internet users continue to comment on the Facebook page of IMF head Christine Lagarde – three days after she made her incredible tax-dodging comments about Greeks, and less than 48 hours after she tried to refute her comments. In an interview to British The Guardian uploaded on Saturday morning, …

Hundreds of thousands of tax audits going back to 2001 will have to be cancelled following the ruling of the Council of State. The Plenary decided that tax audits going beyond the five-year limit are against the Constitution. The Council of State decision is final and irrevocable. The ruling is …

Greece launches a new Super-Weapon, a powerful application against tax evasion. Audits will go back to 2002. The software will automatically trace tax evaders, crosschecking bank deposits and tax declarations. Within just two minutes. Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos presented on Thursday the new tool that is activated in the hope …

With 154 votes the omnibus bill with 1000+1 austerity measures was approved late on Friday night. In the first important vote after the elections, SYRIZA-ANEL coalition government did not manage to persuade all of its lawmakers to vote in favor. The ‘defiant’ MP was from ANEL.        White nights in …

Greece’s tax authorities prepare “raids German style” in the middle of the night in order to localize ‘black money’ and ‘undeclared assets’. The tax inspectors will knock on doors or ring the bells at companies or freelancers’ business addresses even in the middle of the night and conduct controls. The …

Below are the two speeches at the Plenary Session of the European Parliament on July 8th 201. The first text is Tsipras’ opening speech and the second after several MEPs took the floor launching an unprecedented  attack against the Greek Prime Minister. Tsipras opening speech Thank you very much Mr. …