July 8, 2024
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
Authorities in Athens dismantled a criminal organization extorting business owners in the city’s center to avoid administrative fines and inspections. Police have arrested 14 people, including nine public officials and members of the municipality police. The suspects face multiple charges, including forming a criminal organization, extortion, and bribery. It is …
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April 10, 2024
FEATURED, Society, Strikes
The Confederation of Civil Servants (ADEDY) announced a 24-hour strike scheduled to take place on Tuesday, May 21, 2024, over unmet labor demands. In a statement issued on Tuesday, ADEDY said that the new strike is a follow-up on the successful strike of February 28. The Confederation added it will …
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May 8, 2023
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Just two weeks before the general elections on May 21, Greek Prime Minister KyriakosM Mitsotakis announced three financial support measures for youth, home owners and civil servants. Mitsotakis announced the measures during a meeting with ‘citizens’ at the Elefsina shipyards on Sunday. In an obvious effort to “buy” votes from …
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October 24, 2022
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Just a few years ago, I was at a public service where an application had to be submitted on their pc system. The four to five middle-aged civil servants in the specific room were very friendly and helpful but they could not do it. They had to call “Mr. Takis”, …
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July 12, 2021
Greece, Politics
Greece’s highest administrative court ruled on Monday that public sector employees deserve a 15-minute break every two hours they spent in front of a computer screen. The court ruled in favor of the plaintiff in a lawsuit against the administration of a public hospital he worked at because it failed …
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November 13, 2018
Strikes
Public sector union ADEDY will launch a 24-hour strike on Wednesday, November 14th 2018. The planned protest rally to the Greek Parliament will disrupt traffic in downtown Athens. The union demands pay raise as well as increase of pensions. Both have been reduced several times since the bailout agreements in …
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November 9, 2018
Greece
The announcement that 10,000 new civil servants will be hired after 10,000 priest will be removed from the state payroll has created a lot of confusion. How will Tsipras will finance the wages for so many civil servants if the state will keep subsidizing the priests wages? In an interview …
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November 8, 2018
Greece, Politics
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras announced that certain groups of civil servants will receive retroactive a total of €820 million net for wage cuts during the economic crisis and the bailout agreements. The total amount is €1.4 billion gross including taxes, social security and pension contributions. The money will be paid …
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November 7, 2018
Greece
“The agreement between the State and the Church frees 10,000 jobs for civil servants,” government spokesman Dimitris Tzanakopoulos told reporters during a regular press briefing on Wednesday. “This gives the opportunity to cover these places with the hiring of civil servants to cover needs of the social state, by hiring …
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November 7, 2018
Greece
Priests are fuming over the change of their labor status that was announced on Tuesday after a meeting between Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and leader of the Greek Orthodox Church, Archbishop Ieronymos. According to the joint declaration of the Greek State and the powerful Greek Church, priests will no longer …
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July 18, 2018
Greece, Politics
Greece’s ranking on Transparency International list of corruption has improved in “Corruption Perception Index 2017” when the country ranked on position 59/180 and score 48/100 behind Saudi Arabia and Jordan. In 2016 Greece was holding position 69. According to survey findings, complains about instances of corruption decreased by 8.5% in …
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February 2, 2018
Economy
The Greek state is considering to buy private red loans from banks at the prices they would sell to collections companies or hedge funds. This was stated by Economy and Development Minister, Dimitris Papadimitriou, in response to a question by opposition MP, Odysseas Konstantinopoulos (PASOK). The MP wanted to know …
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March 30, 2017
Society, Very Mix
Three civil servants, two notaries, one lawyer and one police officer are among more than 20 people arrested so far in the context of an ongoing police operation to dismantle a criminal group involved in legalizing foreign women from eastern countries – a term usually used for countries of the …
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November 23, 2016
Economy
Armageddon on the way to Greece! Measures that will crack down pensioners and debtors to the government and will affect wages and recruitment in the public sector are included in the so-called “updated bailout agreement” Greece’s creditors sent to the Finance Ministry on Sunday. According to daily Kathimerini that published …
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September 27, 2016
Society
Unionists from Greek Police, Fire Brigades and Coast Guard gathered outside the Defense Ministry on Tuesday morning and demanded from Minister Panos Kammenos to implement previous court decisions, restore wage cuts and avoid further cuts on special payrolls. They also ask that the Defense ministry allocates resources also for Police, …
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July 18, 2016
Politics
The moment Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was waiting for: to have the chance put all his real and fictive enemies in a bag and throw them in the water – in prison, in this case. Whether moderate Islam supporters of his ex mentor Preacher & Scholar Fettulah Gulen, whether …
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May 25, 2016
Society
Sometimes I really fail to understand the logic of this government. Greek Education Ministry plans to “legalize” 2,500 fake high-school degrees obtained by civil servants. “we have looked into the issue and have found them [2,500 fake school degrees],” a “source” told Avgi, a daily close to SYRIZA. The source …
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October 12, 2015
Economy
A shock-measure: civil servants and pensioners will be subject to stricter capital controls than the rest of the Greeks. They will be able to withdraw only €150 per week – with the cash withdrawal cap being €420 per week – that is a total of €600 per month. The rest …
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March 28, 2015
Economy
Forget the Grexit, the Grexident and the Drachma scenarios. They are out! The 20-April-bankruptcy script writers have invented a new solution: something like a parallel currency. No, not the older scenario option of using Drachma nationally and the Euro internationally. Something new: the IOUS! A form of alternative mean of …
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November 11, 2014
Society
Two Financial Crimes Squad (SDOE) employees, a Finance Ministry employee and an employee in the Bank of Greece were arrested in Athens on Monday over bribery and extortion charges, the Greek police department announced on Tuesday. According to a statement released on Tuesday, the case involved a 68-year-old accountant, her …
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