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In other Greek news: The Troikans Poul Thomsen (IMF) and Matthias Morse (EU) had to leave the building of the Greek Finance Ministry from a back door. Cleaning personnel on “mobility scheme” and Development Ministry personnel protesting the dismissal of their colleagues had blocked the main entrance of the ministry …

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Greece’s finance ministry has apparently run out of ideas. Ops! I should immediately correct myself: Greece’s finance ministry has obviously realized that the ideas the team of advisers produce to force citizens to “give to Caesar what belongs to Caesar” – in Modern English that’s “the taxes” –  is sheer …

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Coalition government parties Nea Dimocratia of PM Antonis Samaras and PASOK of deputy Prime minister Evangelos Venizelos owe to Greece’s social security fund IKA 365,000 EUR in social contributions. Responding to a written question from MPs, Labor Minister Yiannis Vroutsis said checks on unpaid contributions in June revealed that New …

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Greek finance ministry threatens to expose businessmen who do not return to the state the collected Value Added Tax. Media report on Thursday, that the ministry will upload name and tax number on V.A.T. evaders on internet and expose their tax evading mentality to the public. Furthermore, the ministry will …

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Another revolutionary proposal by a Greek official and thus the man in charge of Public Revenues. Haris Theocharis. He proposed that “companies with debts to the state pension funds or to employees would better close down than to remain open and produce further deficit.” Τheocharis made this statement last Friday …

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A very angry woman entered the tax office of Chania in Crete at 9 o’clock on Monday morning. In real outrage, she was shouting and brandishing a cleaver she was holding. She threatened the tax office staff. She was reportedly shouting “Give me my money back!” She managed to enter …

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There stuns the average Greek and possibly also the former PASOK voter: in less than a decade, year in, year out, Greece’s socialist party spent 10 million euro more than it could ‘earn’ and took loans generously given by the banks with the effect that the current debt stands at …

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That’s the never ending story of electricity bills skyrocketing with the adding of the emergency property tax. Greeks are called to pay several hundreds euro month in month out. With many declaring they are sheer unable to meet this kind of expenses. Even thought the Finance Ministry made some arrangement last year, people …

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Greek police arrested a 70-year-old man for owing the state whole 53,392,394.73 euro. The man was had a business dealing with items for photography and was arrested in Voula suburb of southern Athens on Tuesday. According to police news bulletin, also seven other people were arrested in several suburbs of …

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In the late hours of Friday, January 25th 2013, a man around his 60’s, drawn in debts and desperation, decided to put an end to his life: to hang himself with a chain. While struggling on the very thin line between life and death, the chain broke. Under a heavy …

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An 80-year-old granny have lived for 6 months without electricity when Greek Public Power Company (DEH) cut the power to her home due to an outstanding debt of 200 euro. Her pension is just 150 euro, the woman told reporters of the civic movement “I don’t pay” and an activists group …

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An Athens prosecutor filed felony charges against the chairman and owner of  private vocational training group IEK XYNI, his wife and his daughter. The charges brought against the Xyni family followed an investigation about forged social security clearence, debts to social insurance fund and a series of tax offenses. Prosecutor Popi Papandreou …

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 A first in Greece: Acharnon Municipality, a suburb of Attica prefecture, suspended its operation due to economic problems. The decision was taken on Thursday evening at the meeting of the city council. Acharnon Municipality said, it was unable to pay employees and to cover fixed costs. A notice uploaded on the municiaplity’s website …

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 A cry of agony, an appeal for urgent help comes from the island of Rhodes. A chronic-ill pensioner with damaged lungs has been deprived from life-supporting oxygen by the supplier. Emmanuil Taktikopoulos, 92, pensioner from Farmer’s Fund OGA  impeached that the supplier took away the oxygen delivering machine because of OGA-debts to …

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 For a bill of 866 euro Greek Public Power Company (DEH) cut the electricity supply to an Athens Hospice hosting 235 bed-ridden seniors who average age is between 80 and 90+ years old. The strange thing is that the bill expires in upcoming August 3rd, 2012. According to daily To …

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Cancer patients are in dire need of live-saving drugs as the health system in debt-ridden Greece collapses. Cancer-patients supporting NGOs, and pharmacists report of serious shortages of the expensive drugs against cancer due to a) public spending cuts b) reluctance of pharmacists to stock out of fear they won’t be paid …

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Nikos Michaloliakos, leader of extreme-right Chrysi Avgi (Golden Dawn) expressed his views on several important issues like the Germans, the SYRIZA or the motives of the Greek voters. Speaking to private Contra-Channel TV, Michaloliakos said that the Germans are an enslaved folk, that has totally bowed to the consuming way …

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A 55-year-old man, desperate to lose his home due to a bank loan set himself on fire in Thessaloniki of Northern Greece on Friday. The man went in front of the bank, poured gasoline on this clothes and set them on fire. Armed with a gasoline jar and a loudspeaker and …

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