This is one example of the madness Greeks experience each and every day when they contact public services. The story was published at a website by Dimitris Messinis who was eye-witness of the struggle of a citizen to pay utilities and lives in the dark as The Public Power Company …

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 …

IT is really amazing how quickly the government forgot its elections promises. Didn’t we hear that the emergency property tax would be cancelled and all the different taxes imposed on properties would be replaced by a flat tax? If you still remember of this sentence by Antonis Samaras, you’d better delete …

Asphalt melts. Concrete boils. Sun is violently burning our heads. Greece in general and Athens in particular are in the grip of an unbearable heat wave with temperatures 38-40/41 degrees Celsius in the shadow. Humans turn the air-conditioner or the fan on. But animals cannot. They walk around in their …

Four days before the crucial elections of June 17, 2012 and several so-called “secret” public opinion polls are being forwarded to media and websites. Whether they are real rolling polls conducted for the political parties, or fake in order to influence undecided voters, it is not clear, as two weeks …

This is one of the last public opinion polls as they are banned two weeks before the June 17 elections. The poll conducted by Metron Analysis for Ant1 TV  shows a very slight lead for Nea Dimocratia but still a very strong polarisation between pro-bailout conservative ND and anti-bailout left-wing …

A 45-year-old man was hit by 20,000 Volts as he tried to reconnect electricity for his home, after Greek Public Power Company (DEH) cut the supply due to unpaid debts. “I’m going to get what belongs to me” the man told his stunned neighbors before climbing high  the PPC column to reconnect the power …

Popular actor and former lawmaker from Nea Dimocratia Costas Karras, 76,  passed away on Sunday in Athens due to cancer complications.  A man with profound talent, a unigue voice and a chairy heart. Costas Karras ( 21 June 1936 – 6 May 2012) had studied Political Sciences and was a graduate …

Luxury  holidays? Exclusive Conferences? Missions ‘impossible’? Extravagant Projects? Social  events? Like a private PR and Events company, Greece’s more powerful union GENOP-DEI allegedly spent money of the Public Power Company (DEI) to organize  the best what a …. union (?) can offer: social events and guests hosting thus with overpriced invoices. A ‘generous’ …

If I were a surgeon, I would have raised my hands towards the sky and I would have said to the patient’s relatives “We did all we could. Now the patient is in God’s hands”. A similar clueless … moment happened to me in the last twelve hours, last night …

A riot police squad was called at the 6th floor of the Environment Ministry on Wednesday afternoon, as the PPC-unionists who had locked George Papaconstantinou in his office did not show a sign of surrender. A large group of unionists form GENOP-DEH, the Greek Public Power Company, had “occupied” the office …

Oh, these rumors can bring down currencies. The EURO sharply declined towards the US-Dollar when rumors appeared on international media that Greek PM Lucas Papademos might resign if the party leaders of his coalition government do not back him on the second loan agreement with the country’s lenders. The rumors …

The scenes that occurred in a suburb of Patras, Peloponnese, must have had something from a tragicomic thriller with secret agents working undercover. A unit allegedly from the public power company without wearing or carrying the logo and signs of DEH went to the home of a property owner and tried …

 Greece’s Energy Ministry suspended on Tuesday the operating licenses of  private electricity providers Energa and Hellas Power, due to unpaid debts to state power company DEH and the Hellenic Transmission System Operator. The two companies owe more than 27 million euro. At the same time, the financial crime units of the Finance …

Several thousands Greeks submitted application requesting to be exempted from the emergency property tax or at least pay the reduced price of o,5 euro per property square meter. According to Greek Finance Ministry Information Department 39,000 property owners have already submitted their requests electronically. Furthermore, 12,000 Greeks have made relevant requests …

The Greek Finance Ministry was forced to issue another corrective notice after the outcry against the orders to cut off the power to those electricity subscribers who have not paid the emergency property tax. According to a FinMin statement, there will be no power cut offs to those who can prove …

This is going to be the mother of all electricity battles! the management of Greece’s state power company DEH ordered the electricity cut off in 20,000 Greek households for failing to have paid the ’emergency property tax’. The orders come into force as the 80-days  deadline for paying the first …

Members of trade union PAME (Communist Party KKE) prohibited the electricity cut in ten households in Kalamata, Peloponnese, as the property owners had not paid the emergency property tax. Until now, 374 households and shops in the prefecture of Messinia are threatened with power cuts for the same reason. The …

Greeks got the first electroshock with the hikes in their power bills. State-run electricity company DEH will raise an average fee of €4-6 per household for the consumption of 1,000 MWh as of January 2012. The fee is raised for ‘green energy’ because DEH uses environment-polluting lignite. Private households will …

“Indignant” citizens of Nea Penteli, suburb in northern Athens perfectly adjusted themselves to the atmosphere of the days and decorated the muncipality Christmas tree with power company bills containing the ’emergency property tax’. This symbolic ‘artistic intervention was thought as a substitute to an angry-citizens-action protesting at the local DEH …