US-based international aid agency Mercy Corps suspended two employees until an investigation conducted by Greek authorities concludes. The investigation follows claims that workers at the NGO had sexually harassed migrants in Greece’s reception centers and had misused funds aiming to the welfare of refugees and migrants. “Mercy Corps is investigating …
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Albania discovers “grey zones” in the Ionian Sea as Greece exploits hydrocarbon
Albania has discovered “grey zones” in the Ionian Sea and claims Greece needs to ask permission from Tirana in order to conduct hydrocarbon exploitation. Following the tactics of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Albanian prime minister Edi Rama tears bilateral Treaties apart and challenges the Greek sovereignty in the Ionian …
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Britisch couple face losing home after Greek hotel countersues them for ‘fake’ sickness claim
A British couple face losing their home after a five-star Greek hotel counter-sues them for £170,000. The couple had made a £10,000 claim that the resort’s food and drink made them ill. The five-star hotel has made a counter-claim against them alleging the claim was ‘fake’ and for ‘damaging its …
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Corruption prosecutor resigns, claiming she was targeted over pharma company probe
Greece’s corruption prosecutor Eleni Raikou submitted her resignation on Friday claiming she was being targeted by “unofficial power centres” due to her investigation of alleged extensive bribery of state officials by the pharmaceutical firm Novartis. Eleni Raikou has been holding this position since 213. Greece’s Corruption Prosecutor Eleni Raikou resigned …
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IMF Thomsen: Greece will need at least 20 years to return to pre-crisis levels
Greeece will need at least twenty years to have its GDP return to pre-crisis levels. This message full of … spring optimism was transmitted by Poul Thomsen, in charge of the European program of the International Monetary Fund. Speaking at a conference in the University of Oxford, Poul Thomsen said …
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Imprisoned 17-November leader: A cell of 8 people not captured yet
Imprisoned leader of terror organization 17. November, Alexandros Gioropoulos, claims that 8 members were still on the run. In an 8-page letter sent from the prison cell to daily To Ethnos, Giotopoulos claims among others that: important documents found in a hide-out in 2002 have disappeared together with a 45-revolver …
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PM Edi Rama claims Greece owes Albanians for having saved Acropolis in 1686
Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama had to dig deep in the home-cooked history of his country in order to counter the call by Greek Foreign Ministry to refrain from demolishing the homes of Greek minority members in Chimara. Fantasist Edi Rama claimed that it was the Albanians who saved Acropolis …
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Two former PASOK-Ministers claim Greece is being ruled by “officials with psychological problems”
I don’t know if the World Mental Health Day on October 9th had an “inspiring” effect on some people who used to govern Greece. But today a current financial official and a former politician with high profile, both PASOK, claimed that Greece is and has being ruled by people with …
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Party leader claims “pollster asked €10K in order to show party had 8%” in public opinion poll”
It is the first time that the leader of a political party makes such a denouncement. Vassilis Leventis, the founder and chairman of Union of Centrists, claimed that a pollster asked from him €10,000 in order to show better rates for the party in the next public opinion poll. Speaking …
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German media claim Greece’s Finance Minister Tsakalotos was ready to resign. Really?
German media know apparently better. And they claim today that finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos and one more member of the Greek government intend to resign. Leading in this role is Bild newspaper that sees “a dramatic escalation in Greece’s government and financial crisis as two cabinet members are threatening to resign …
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IMF claims “Greece promised Primary Surplus 3.5% of GDP per year”
With this – Refugee Crisis – and that – borders closure, EU’s inability to solve the issue -, we, the Greeks, forgot the economic crisis, and the lenders. Forgot? Not exactly. We just focused on another, equally important tissue that makes the economic dead-end even worse. But here comes the …
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The truth is out: Why Turkey doesn’t halt the refugees’ influx despite €3-bn EU agreement
We have wondered many times why Turkey does not implement what it has agreed upon with the European Union, after it signed the deal: 3 billion euro vs halting the refugees and migrants flow to Europe. KTG also often expressed the suspicion that Brussels most probably had not handed out …
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Varoufakis to give away his Yamaha as reward to those who can…
Former Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis got really angry. And he decided to reward with his own Yamaha motorcycle those who can prove that the claims his former partner in coalition government alleged were true. So he tweeted: Όποιος αποδείξει ότι έχω δουλέψει έστω για 1'σε fund (κι όχι μόνο …
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Greece in crisis & fear: Media, Politicians & the Notorious Greek Whiners
There is a hurricane of rumors and leakages to local and international press about the “negotiations” between Greece and its creditors, about what’s next on economic level, after the country missed its payment to the IMF and the bailout program expired at midnight. One journalist claims this, another something different, …
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UPD5 June 30th: Last minute solution? Eurogroup meeting at 7 pm!
Greece is one minute before 12. Midnight sharp we will not all turn into pumpkins but rather into default, should we believe local and foreign media. As the whole reporting about “Greece’s Doomsday” is strongly influenced by the pro or contra propaganda with regards to Referendum on upcoming Sunday, I …
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Rumor and speculation mill work overtime over Greek gov’t proposals to lenders
The rumor and speculation mill is working overtime as usual when negotiations between Greece and its creditors are at a crucial point. After Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras revealed that Greece sent a draft plan to the Troika-Institutions on Monday night, national and international media started to upload on their websites …
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“Hellenization” of Spanish politics or How PM Rajoy lies about the Greek loan
Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy is adamant. He will fight against new Greek government and his leftist counterpart Alexis Tsipras till the end. Then Mariano Rajoy has a lurking enemy in his own football field: Podemos and Pablo Iglesias! It doesn’t matter whether SYRIZA and PODEMOs have a lot or …
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Greece would not agree on “extend” and “current” program; Eurogroup talks end without progress
Seven hours they were sitting in the Lex-building in Brussels, Greek Finance Mninister Yanis Varoufakis did not manage to persuade the Eurogroup Finance Ministers to find a compromise with the Greek position. The talks failed as the German-led eurogroup on one side and Greece on the other could not agree …
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PM Samaras to sue MP Haikalis over attempted bribery claims
The Press office of Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras issued a statement on Friday night, saying the the prime minister will file a law suit against Pavlos Haikalis, the Independent Greeks MP who claimed an attempted bribery. According to Greek media, the statement came within minutes right after private MEGA …
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Bribes Alert! Opposition MP claims, she was offered €3mln to vote for Greece’s next President
Stavroula Xoulidou, a lawmaker from right-wing Independent Greeks party, claimed that she was offered 3 million euro to vote for Greece’s next President. Xoulidou made her claims during a late night show on Tuesday short after party president Panos Kammenos had claimed that there were attempts from the side of …
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