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Former EU Commissioner and PASOK minister Anna Diamantopoulou announced on Monday she was withdrawing her candidacy in the race to become the next head of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Diamantopoulou was one of three candidates left in the race. She posted on her Twitter account: I …

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The European Commission keeps its Plan B for Greece in the Berlaymont building in Brussels, in a safe. A secret with seven seals. The emergency Grexit plan drafted by the Commission in summer 2015 in the peak of the crisis between the Greek government and the European creditors. The 200-point …

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Greeks seem to have a new hobby: boo and insult politicians while they hold election campaign meetings. The number of incidents increase almost on a daily basis, as the elections thermometer rises, the politicians are exposed to the public preferably via the secure area of the television screen and the leaders of the  …

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 Newly appointed Development Minister Anna Diamantopoulou took some rigorous decision: She asked 37 civil servants incl. their supervisors at the ministry’s Private Investment Department to resign and ordered the inspector of public administration to open their bank accounts and investigate their assets from 2005 until today. Greek Development, Competitiveness and …

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It all started with the resignation of Minister for Citizens’ Protection Christos Papoutsis, who chose to candidate for the leadership of PASOK than remain a Papademos’ government minister. The choice to give the empty post to Michalis Chryssochoides (Development Minister until Tuesday night) triggered more moves on the Greek political chessboard. …

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