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Greece’s priests declare “Holy War” for losing civil servant status

November 7, 2018 Greece Comments Off on Greece’s priests declare “Holy War” for losing civil servant status

Priests are fuming over the change of their labor status that was announced on Tuesday after a meeting between Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and leader of the Greek Orthodox Church, Archbishop Ieronymos. According to the joint declaration of the Greek State and the powerful Greek Church, priests will no longer …

Council of State rules reforms in school religion courses are “unconstitutional”

April 26, 2018 Greece, Politics 1

Greece’s top court, the Council of State, ruled that the reforms in religion courses in the country’s public high schools are unconstitutional and against the European Conventions of Human Rights. The reforms initiated by former Education Minister, Nikos Fillis (SYRIZA) in 2016, would abolish the catechistic character of religious classes …

Greek Orthodox Church calls on Gov’t to withdraw Gender Change bill

October 5, 2017 Greece, Politics Comments Off on Greek Orthodox Church calls on Gov’t to withdraw Gender Change bill

The Holy Synod of the Greek Orthodox Church urged the coalition government to withdraw a legislation on gender change that is to be voted through the Parliament on upcoming Monday. In a statement the Holy Synod said that the proposed bill challenges the feeling society, it torpedoes the sacred institution …

Greece’s Church and Lenders are the winners in Tsipras’ government reshuffle

November 5, 2016 Politics 3

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras proceeded to the much awaited government reshuffle late Friday evening. with reshuffling the cabinet, the Greek PM aims to speed up reforms needed for the second program review but also to boost popularity of the government, see left-wing Syriza and nationalist Independent Greeks (ANEL). Tsipras kept …

EC’s Costello – Greece’s creditors never heard, ‘Colonialism’ died last century

December 8, 2015 Politics 2

I wouldn’t know that the neo-colonists of creditors believe that they can intervene into the procedures of hiring personnel. But so it is. Creditors’ representative for European Commission Declan Costello sent a letter to Greek education Minister Nikos Filis and … criticized him for the hiring of primary and secondary …

New Democracy MP assaulted during protest. Media: “It was Golden Dawn”

November 5, 2015 Politics 1

Lawmaker of conservative New Democracy, former Member of the European Parliament and ex Foreign Ministry spokesman Giorgos Koumoutsakos was violently attacked by a mob during a protest for the Pontus Greeks outside the Parliament in Athens earlier today. The mob punched him, attacked with with wooden sticks and torn apart …

Angry at creditors: “Greece can’t make more concessions”; several ministers speak of “snap elections”

June 2, 2015 Economy 12

Creditors did not manage to agree on a joint position towards Greece at an emergency meeting Monday night in Berlin. Officially, all they decided about was that “work had to speed up”. No statement was released. But the Greek government is angry as it was waiting for a political decision …

Greek Gov’t: no payment to IMF on June 5 without a deal with creditors

May 20, 2015 Economy 5

Greece will not make a payment to the International Monetary Fund if there is no deal with its creditors, SYRIZA’s parliamentary speaker said on Wednesday. “The moment of truth is on June 5,” Nikos Filis told private ANT1 TV. Nikos Filis “If there is no deal by then that will …

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