We call it Tahinopita but it has little to do with pie. It is cake. A cake made with tahini, the sesame paste, that substitutes any kind of fat. It is egg-free, it contains no oil or butter or any dairy product. It is nutritious and very popular during the …

Electricity bills pile up. It is not the pure cost for electricity that makes it unaffordable to many Greek households struggling with unemployment. It is the extra charges incl. municipality taxes and state broadcast fees doubling the amount a consumer has to pay to the Greek Public Power Company. There …

Greek Interior Minister – an Energy minister in first SYRIZA government – Panos Skourletis accused on Monday international lenders of reneging on a 2015 bailout deal by trying to force a fire-sale of its main electricity utility Public Power Corporation (PPC/DEH) to serve “domestic and foreign business interests.” Later, a …

“Repeated calls from collection agencies to debtors infringe personality and debtors are entitled to compensation.” This is the final decision of a court in Athens after an attorney filed a lawsuit against two collection agencies. The court ruling opens the way for compensation to be claimed for “personality insult” when …

The body of a Turkish soldier was found in Evros river, the natural border between Greece and Turkey. He was missing for 78 days, after he attempted to illegally cross into Greece through the Evros [Turkish: Maritsa] together with his family. He was a computer engineer at the Missile Base …

The cost for energy has not increased during the last year. Greek Public Power Company (PPC/DEH) did not dare to increase the price for electricity consumption amid the deep economic crisis in the country. However, electricity bills have turned unpayable for thousands of households due to the additional fees and …

Greece’s Public Power Company (DEH) intends to hire a private collection agency to manage arrears to the public utility, Chairman and CEO Manolis Panagiotakis announced on Wednesday. “They promised us a 10-percent collectability increase,”the PPC CEO told a committee at the Greek Parliament. As expected Panagiotakis’ announcement triggered an outrage …

A blck out occurred on the island group of Cyclades in the central Aegean Sea leaving thousands of people in Paros, Naxos, Ios, Sikinos, Folegandros and other islands without electricity. According to Greek Public Power Company (DEH), a short circuit in the transformer of the power plant on the island …

German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble warned that new negotiation should take place with regards to Greece’s bailout program, should the International Monetary Fund ultimately decide to remain out of the program. Speaking to German daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Schaeuble said “If the IMF for some reason decides not to participate, the …

Two days of snow and the chaos broke out in Greece: hundreds of vehicles were trapped in highways, villages have been snowed in, thousands of households across the country are without heating, electricity and water supply. Two people lost their lives due to the harsh weather conditions. State of emergency …

Members of the civic movement “I Don’t Pay” reconnected electricity to the home of a cancer patient in Chalandri suburb of north Athens. The 65-year-old woman who lives with her family in the apartment had the electricity connection cut due two days ago due to 2,500 euro debt to the …

A dystopian scenario: brutal anarchy in the world’s megacities, filled with gangs of youth-gone wild, a restive underclass, criminal syndicates, and bands of malicious hackers. The society in the year 2030, dehumanized and as unpleasant as possible. This scenario is outlined in “Megacities: Urban Future, the Emerging Complexity,” a five-minute …

With 152 YES votes, coalition government lawmakers from left-wing SYRIZA and nationalists Independent Greeks approved the privatization of the water companies in Athens and Thessaloniki. Replying to sharp criticism form opposition parties and the society, the government insisted that “indebted state-run enterprises would hardly find an investor” and that the …

The Greek government tries to persuade opposition parties and society that the transfer of utility companies in the Privatization Fund does not automatically mean that they will be sold. Three government ministers – Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos, Transportation Minister Christos Spirtzis and Energy Minister Panos Skouletis -, insisted in claiming …

Greece’ utility companies but also the Metro and other state companies will be trasnferred to the new Privatization Fund to go under the hammer so that the Greek government can receive the €2.8 billion bailout tranche. A multi-bill containing 15 prior actions is to be submitted to the Parliament today, …

Miracles happen! A 78-year-old man who had been missing since the stormy weather stroke Greece last week, has been found and rescued. The man had been missing since September 7th, when he left the area of Ilia in Peloponnese to drive to his home in a suburb of Athens. At …

Some cry, some are desperate and just look helpless when the teams of Greek Public Power Company (DEH) comes to cut the electricity supply due to accumulative debts. However, a tavern owner of a tavern in Chasia, in Ano Liosia suburb of western Athens decided to hinder the upcoming outage …

Greece’s Public Power Company (PPC/DEH) is selling a part of its share together with 400,000 of its customers. Manolis Panagiotakis, the CEO of PPC, announced this innovative step during the Economist conference in Athens. PPC will establish a subsidiary company that will be available for sale to private electricity suppliers …

Competitiveness is good – if it is real. With seven private company active in the energy sector, Greece’s Public Power Company (DEH) sees itself obliged to adjust to the new market conditions. As of 1. July 2016, PPC will grant 15% reduction to those private and business customers who pay …

The “Hellenic Company for Assets and Participation” (EDIS) is the name for the new  Privatization Super-Fund that will claim ownership of all assets of the Greek state including 70,000 real estate properties, all major state-run enterprises like utility companies (electricity, water) and public transport (buses, metro etc), state shares in …