Tag Archives: demands

Beekeepers from around Greece flocked to Athens on Thursday to protest demanding solutions for the serious problems their sector has been facing. Among them is the unfair competition from imported honey labelled as “Greek”, prohition to enter forests or smoking the beehives in certain times and high production cost. Wearing …

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Hundreds of residents of Rhodes demonstrated in front of the Town Hall of the island’s capital on Tuesday night, in wake of the 12-day wildfire. They demanded better firefighting resources on the island, reforestation and compensations to farmers, breeders, businesses and workers. A peaceful protest gathering, for the harsh test …

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Pensioners flocked to downtown Athens on Tuesday to demand an increase in their pensions in order to cope with the rising cost of living. The crowd of demonstrators gathered at the Ministry of Labor on Stadiou Street on Tuesday morning and marched to the Prime Minister’s office, where they met …

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The times of showing gratitude to essential and front line workers fighting the pandemic are over. The President of the Hospital Workers Union (POEDIN) was injured by the “clapping” hands of the Greek riot police. POEDIN President Michalis Giannakos was injured in the head on Tuesday morning, when tension broke …

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The Supreme Constitutional Court in Italy has ruled that a Greek survivor from Distomo massacre can claim German reparations from the Italian Railways Company to which Germany is the main shareholder. The unprecedented decision comes into effect after the court dismissed the appeal of the German Railway Company that the …

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Did Berlin think that Greece forgot the issue of German War Reparations? Berlin may have forgotten the issue thinking it had scared off Athens with its multiple rejections of Greek claims. But the Greeks did not forget. The Parliament’s special committee report on the German war reparations will have been …

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For one more time, as usual towards the end of January, Greece’s farmers launch their traditional roadblocks to protest austerity measures. Dozens of tractors have been deployed on roads around Kardista in Central Greece since Monday, some 300 tractors are deployed on E65. so far they have not hindered traffic. …

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Greece and foreign creditors resume talks on Tuesday afternoon after a long break. On the table are the so-called “reforms” prescribed under the international bailout and further debt relief. The aim is to reach a comprehensive deal (staff level agreement) before the Eurogroup meeting on May 22.  Talks are over …

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Germany sinks in “self-righteousness” and raises the Teacher finger to Europe: we are right, we are successful, we work hard and we don’t spend money. What Germany does not mention in its Euro-policies is that Germany is the only winner from the strict austerity of the other European folks. German …

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The Greek delegation walked out the negotiations with creditors representatives in Brussels on Sunday afternoon. During the meeting that lasted 46 minutes, the Greek side submitted revised proposals but they were considered as “insufficient” by the creditors. A difference gap of 2.6 billion euro remain between the two sides. According …

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It was a shock late last night when some of creditors austerity demands were leaked to the press. They were included in a 5-page draft plan European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker had handed out to Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras during their emergency meeting in Brussels in an effort to strike …

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Greece’s most crucial week has started and there is an odd and unusual lack of information about the progress of negotiations. No fuss, no buzz, no provocative or undermining tones. A cloud of suspicious silence has spread over Athens, Brussels and Berlin. Or all sides suddenly grew up. Both sides, …

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Creditors command and demand, Greece is willing but … some red lines cannot be set aside. Apart from that, creditors’ commands are anything but logical as their demands could be only described as crazy. Furthermore the creditors seem divided as to what they demand from Greece with the logical consequence …

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In a document submitted to the EuroWorkingGroup with the German positions, Berlin describes the Greek loan agreement extension request as “Trojan Horse” – to start with. And then, it has the boldness to dictate three main commandments to Greece, some of them copy-pasted from  Dijsselbloem’s draft at the Eurogroup meeting …

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Just hours before the meeting between Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis with his counterpart Wolfgang Schaeuble in Berlin, and the German side most probably thought to put the agenda of Thursday talks. In a document leaked to the press, Berlin made its positions towards Greece very clear and demands from …

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Greece’s resistance to Troika’s demand did not last long. Just a couple of days after the negotiations failure in Paris, the country’s lenders e-mailed the Greeks that they should definitely need to impose additional austerity measures and fill the hole of estimated 2.5 billion euro in the budget of 2015.  …

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No, no, no. The Troika is a tough negotiator. The representatives of Greece’s lenders rejected the government proposal about the three defense industries LARKO, EAS and ELVO.  IMF’s Thomsen and the other kids demanded that the three industries close immediately without compensation for the fired personnel and to be thoroughly …

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CEO of Greece’s Privatization Fund Stelios Stavridis submitted his resignation late on Sunday after Finance Minister Yiannis Stournaras asked him to do so. Stavridis did not mention the reason for his resignation. Citing government sources, Greek media report that Stavridis’ resignation was a matter of political ‘ethics’. KTG reported earlier …

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Protesting farmers moved their tractors near the national highway, just kilometers away from the city of Larissa on Tuesday morning threatening to block the traffic in Greece’s North-South axis.  However the farmers were hindered from parking their tractors on the highway by strong riot police forces. Tension was high between farmers and police, …

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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 …

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