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For one more time. Greek pollsters failed to catch the voters’ pulse ahead of general elections on May 21 and did not come even close to the 21% difference between ruling New Democracy and main opposition SYRIZA. In an effort to justify the unjustifiable, that is they “misled clients and …

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A new provocative narrative from the side of Turkey that is not very new, after all: Ankara’s nationalists and kemalists, the deep state, claim that three out of four regions of Crete belongs to Turkey and only one, the Chania region in the West, belongs to Greece. Turkish news website …

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Many of the Parthenon Sculptures removed by Lord Elgin’s agents were found “in the rubble” around the monument, they were not removed violently,” claimed Dr Jonathan Williams, deputy director of the British Museum during the annual meeting of the Intergovernmental Panel on the Promotion of the Return of Cultural Heritage …

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An unbelievable claim made publicly by Turkish Foreign Minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu. “Greece has been firing at refugee boats, sinking them in the Aegean, people are drowned, others forcibly return to Turkey wounded,” Cavusoglu said during a joint press conference with his German counterpart, Heiko Mass, in Ankara on Saturday. #Greece …

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The Plenary of the Greek Parliament is discussing on Wednesday the findings of a Special Parliamentary Committee on Greece’s reparations claims from Germany for atrocities and the enforced loan during World War II. At the end of the debate lawmakers will be called to vote for the relevant resolution. It …

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Several employers found a “recipe” to fill their cash registers over the Christmas days: they demanded back the Christmas bonus they are obliged by law to pay to employees. The employees’ complains landed at the unions offices one after the other. In Patras, workers at retail shops, restaurants and cleaning …

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Despite the ongoing economic crisis, some Greeks seem to live on another planet. It is mainly the country’s politicians and certain groups of  the public administration who still think that the state is a cow they can milk even if they know that more than one million people are without …

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The self-proclaimed billionaire and now fugitive Artemis Sorras has been charged with fraud and running a criminal organization. The office of prosecutor in Athens published a long list of charges against Artemis Sorras and seven of his close associates on Tuesday. The list of charges reportedly contain “half of the …

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A Greek left-wing urban guerrilla group on Monday claimed responsibility for an attack with a hand grenade on the French embassy in Athens last week, which wounded one guard. The attackers were riding a motorcycle when they threw the hand grenade outside the building opposite parliament, in one of Athens’s …

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After Athens, also Kremlin dismisses Hollande’s allegations that Greece was planning to print Drachmas in Russia. High-ranking sources of the Russian government who are very close to President Vladimir Putin told to the correspondent of a Greek newspaper in Moscow, “vehemently dismissed that the Greek side had such a request.” …

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Urban guerilla group “Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire” claimed responsibility for the bomb that exploded last night in downtown Athens. The text was uploaded in a known website of the anti-authoritarian movement in Greece. They write that the bomb had a symbolic character aiming to cause only material damage …

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The European Stability Mechanism has acknowledged that it is considering ways to grant debt relief to Greece, possibly by fixing the interest level at current low rates or by extending its maturities further. The ESM said in August 2015 that euro area finance ministers stood ready to consider, if necessary, …

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A team of former CIA investigators uncover secret FBI files to ‘reveal’ exactly what happened to Adolf Hitler. Using a collection of never-before-seen documents, the team claim to have proof Hitler did not kill himself in his underground bunker at the end of the Second World War. Instead, the investigators …

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Greek Culture Minister Aristidis Baltas made a shocking revelation: that Greece will not claim back the Parthenon Marbles from United Kingdom because the government believed that it had no chance to win the legal battle.  Speaking at the Parliament on Tuesday Baltas replied to a question about the Ministry’s moves …

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Do you remember Yanis Varoufakis‘ “doctrine” for a Greek default within the euro zone”? That was back in 2012, when Varoufakis who was just an economics professor and games theorist, was touring the media claiming that “Greece should default within the eurozone.”  Now, exactly today, Wednesday, a similar scenario appeared …

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Look what happened in Germany today! While the country’s conservatives directly or indirectly have been demanding that Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras should replace Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis, a ultra-conservative senior ally of German Chancellor Angela Merkel resigned. Peter Gauweiler, the deputy chairman of the Christian Social Union (CSU) – the …

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“The ECB Governing Council and the ECB banking supervisor would be more comfortable if there were capital controls to prevent the banks bleeding (money),” German arch-conservative daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung claimed Thursday citing an source from the European Central Bank. ECB’s concern was allegedly based on the ground of a …

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The European Central Bank agreed on Wednesday to allow Greece’s national central bank to grant its banks emergency funding of up to 60 billion euros ($68.5 billion), German newspaper Die Welt reported. The ECB had no comment on the report, which cited central bank sources. The ECB said late on …

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SYRIZA candidate Rachil Makri claimed that Greece would print 100billion euro in case the European Central Bank would stop the funding. Speaking to regional television network Flash in Kozani, Makri said: “The emergency ELA will be activated and we can print at the Bank of Greece up to 100 billion …

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A misleading sms text sent to thousands of taxpayers via mobile phone caused long queues at local tax offices as people rushed to claim back  the so-called “emergency property taxes” already paid in 2011. Geek media report that the text message was saying: “The Law 3986/11 on special solidarity levy …

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