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One day after the blatant intervention of the European Commission in the legal case of former president of Greek Statistics Authority ELSTAT, Employment Commissioner Marianne Thyssen strikes back and threatens Greece that the Eurogroup will take up the ELSTAT issue on the September 9th meeting. In an interview to daily …

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“The European Commission has never, and will not, as a matter of principle, comment on individual national legal proceedings, […]. However, …” Despite the loyalty to  alleged EC principles, Marianne Thyssen, the European Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs, Skills and Labour Mobility, threw all these principles over the board and …

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European Commission for Migration Dimitris Avramopoulos reminded of the €250,000 fine per refugee that is supposed to be imposed on EU member states that refuse to accept refugees. In a relevant question posed by SYRIZA MEP and Vice-President of the european Parliament Dimitris Papadimoulis, Avramopoulos said that the EU Commission …

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The European Commission temporary suspended all projects funded through the European Regional Developments Funds for the period 2014-2020 claiming there is a suspicion that a construction cartel has been exploiting the funds flowing into Greece. EC’s official justification for the suspension of funds amounting €13.5 million is the “distortion in …

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It was just two days ago, when German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble urged European Union leaders to “address popular dissatisfaction.” He added “I said before the referendum that regardless of how the vote in Britain pans out we cannot simply continue as before in Europe.” As a consequence Schaeuble came …

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The European Union, the European Council and the European Parliament agreed on a new border and coast guard to better manage migrant arrivals after more than a million people came to the EU since last year. The official aim of the Border and Coast Guard is to strengthen its external …

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The European Commission directly intervened in the work of the Greek Justice and demanded that EU technocrats working at the Greek Privatization Fund enjoy “immunity.” The EC intervenes two days after corruption prosecutors in Athens raised charges against 3 Greeks and 3 EU-nationals of the HRADF for selling public assets thus …

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The data released by the European Commission on the relocation and resettlement of refugees – asylum seekers -from Greece is as depressive as they could be and as everyone would have suspected. Not even 600 people have left Greece for another EU member country a total of 937 people were …

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880,000 people arrived in Greece since the beginning of 2015. This is stated in a EU Commission progress report on Greece and the Refugee Crisis. According to the report released today, the country that has received a huge stream of refugees and migrants on its soil has made progress in …

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It was back in November 2013 when the European Commission warned Greece and Bulgaria to stop turning down Syrian refugees at their land/river borders with Turkey, after the UN issued a similar call just a few days before. Two and a half years later, in January 2016, it is Belgium, …

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It has been the old European Union strategy since 2010: if something doesn’t work within the EU blame Greece! You can’t go wrong with this. Oh! And stress the “common European interests”. Tou can’t go wrong with this either. And so they did. The College of EU Commissioners discussed a …

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The European Commission sees Greece’s economy returning to recession in 2015 and the following year, with growth only materialising in 2017, and urged the Greek government to comply fully with the terms of the third lending agreement in order to restore economic confidence. According to finance news MNI.com, in its …

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Finally! Enough with the Grexit nonsense! After days of frenzy Grexit scenarios, that plunged the euro and the stock markets, the European Union’s executive Commission said that membership in the euro bloc is “irrevocable”. However it left open to what extent Greece could renegotiate the terms after the Jan. 25 …

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After a planning that lasted several months,, Greek Finance Ministry set the guidelines for debtors to the the tax and customs offices. “Outstanding debts can be paid back in 72 or 100 installments,” mainstream media herald adding that “this is a big gift by the General Secretary of Revenues” to …

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UPDATE: According to colleagues, EU Commissioner Maria Damanaki denied having made statements “about the EU Commission considering further lowering the minimum wage in Greece.” Speaking to NewsIt.gr  Damanaki vehemently denied to “have made such statements at least during the last year.” Sources close to Damanaki, told the website they were …

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“In a year we will know what with did with the reforms in Greece,” head of EU Task Force Horst Reichenbach told during a public hearing  of the European Union. Speaking at the Committee on Budgetary Control of the European Parliament in Brussels about the application for financial assistance from …

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Recession in Greece is likely to end in 2024 but unemployment will remain above 20 percent for another three years. That would be …ehm… let me count… in 2016! Nice perceptive for the more than 1.3 million jobless. In a report published on Friday, the European Commission predicted the possibility …

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EU Commission inspectors raided oil and biofuel companies in two member states in terms of anti-trust practices. However, the relevant EU statement did not disclose neither the names of the countries nor of the companies. Official EU Commission statement dated May 14th 2013 “Αntitrust: Commission confirms unannounced inspections in oil …

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Economic  recovery is at sight, Greek Finance Minister Yiannis Stournaras told us last week. He said, he believed and hoped that things would get much better by end of 2014 and that unemployment would start decreasing later. In short, Stournaras told us to have faith, be patience and try to …

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Greek government spokesman Simos Kedikoglou rushed Monday morning to calm down depositors, concerned about their money in accounts of National Bank and Eurobank after the merger was called off. “Deposits are safe, the banking sector is shielded,” Kedikoglou told a private television channel. Short time later, EU Commission felt also …

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