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Scroll Down for Agreement details and Eurogroup Press Conference Live – Stream THE Eurogroup meeting on Greece started in Brussels with delay due to several meeting of the protagonists Dijsselbloem, Lagarde, Draghi, Varoufakis, Schaeuble. Eurogroup head Jeroen Dijsselbloem, IMF chief Christine Lagarde, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble and the rest …

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Shock and awe! For second consecutive day, Athens Stock Exchange is on free fall with more than 4 billion euro to have fled during the last two sessions.  The free fall seems to be hard to stop and at 3:50 pm, the General Index shows losses of -9.64%! Ten minutes …

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“Minister Michelakis is exiting the Maximos mansion?” the breaking new presenter on Skai TV asked the reporter covering the government reshuffle news. “No, Minister Michelakis is exiting the government!” the reporter corrected the presenter. With breaking news Greek television channels started to report about the much expected cabinet reshuffle short …

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The first wave of exit polls has been announced at 7 o’clock Sunday, May 25th 2014. The first wave of exit polls refer to European Parliament Elections and Attica Region. “The error margin is +/-2,” a pollster said to state NERIT TV. Live blogging continues below the exit poll results. …

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A powerful earthquake hit the Northern Aegean Sea area in Greece on Saturday at 12:27 noon local time. Several geo-dynamic institutes give different magnitudes from 5.7 R up to 7.2 R. According to Geo-dynamic Institute of Athens University, the earthquake measured 6.5 R and had a depth of 6 km. …

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In a huge operation launched by judicial authorities and police, Golden Dawn leader Nikos Michaloliakos, party spokesman Ilias Kasidiaris and several other MPs have been arrested on Saturday morning. Greek media report that a total of 36 arrest warrants against MPs and local branches officials have been issued. The operation …

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The crucial meeting of prime minister Antonis Samaras with his coalition government partners Evangelos Venizelos (PASOK) and Fotis Kouvelis (Democratic Left) started at 6 p.m. on Wednesday. The three leaders seek a compromise on re-opening of public broadcasting ERT shutdown by Samaras’ order per Legislation Act on June 11th 2013. …

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Greece fevers with a massive 24-hour general strike as more than 30 trade unions participate in the anti-austerity mobilization organized by public and private sector unions ADEY and GSEE. The strike comes just days before the announcement of an additional austerity package of 11.5 billion euro and extra taxes of 2 …

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Ballot boxes of the most crucial elections in Greece are most likely to end with a neck-to-neck rally for conservative and pro-bailout Nea Dimocratia and left-wing and anti-bailout SYRIZA. These are the estimations of the Greek media which apparently have had a look at the results of the exit polls. …

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Angry protesters set a German flag on fire outside the Greek Parliament. They also attempted to burn another flag with a Swastika. Riot police intervened and fired tear gas to disperse the angry crowd that was trying to come dangerously close to the Greek Parliament building. Video A group of workers …

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03:12 pm KTG’s impression from new PM: he speaks like an academician & banker and looks like non-smoker lol Time for a long break on the Greek Gov’t issue- KTG will come back when there clear answers to the questions (see below) 03:09 pm Papademos said, there were not given …

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Conclusion: At the end of the day…The “Farce” turned into “Fiasco”. Unity Gov’t talks to ressume Thursday at 10 am.  I think, Papandreou is still PM. Need somebody to pinch me! Live Blogging is over. Don’t drink too much!  George and Antonis trying to catch the moon…. 07:57 pm Prez …

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Under the pressure of many of his deputies Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou is being ‘forced’ to deliver his speech a couple of hours earlier than scheduled. Not shortly before the confidence vote starts at midnight, but in good half-an-hour, at 8 pm local time. Ruling party PASOK parliamentary group …

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While Greek members of the Parliament gathered to vote for the unpopular property tax, hundreds have gathered outside to protest the voting and the new austerity package that comes as a storm over their heads. “Indignant” Greeks and members of the civic “I Don’t Pay” movement have urged citizens to …

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With eyes turned to Euro Zone Summit and holding their breath Greeks monitor the overwhelming developments in Brussels, lurk for the slightest official or off the record comment that could hind or imply a positive or negative development for the Greek debt crisis. The aim is to reduce the massive Greek debt, to help …

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I have to start a new post as the situation is really out of control and the Blogging I started this morning became too long-You can read the what happened from morning until 7 o’ clock pm click HERE Live Streaming from Athens if you see no picture, and wait …

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The day started bad and with a lot of tension. People are angry and feel ignored by politicians, the police has clear orders. The day started bad already at 9 o clock ini the morning with some incidents erupting between protesters and riot police, whens a group of 200 people …

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Thousands Greeks are flocking to Syntagma Square to protest in front of the Parliament. Greeks have been protesting the strict austerity measures for 19 days now. However this Sunday’s it looks as the crowd is as big as it was last week. Last Sunday  300,000 to 500,000 people had flooded the centre of …

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At least 300,000 Indignant Greeks protested in Athens on Sunday in the biggest rally of the last three decades. The city’s downtown burst with men and women, young and old, employees and jobless, pensioners and self-employees, angry and frustrated about the IMF/EU/ECB Memorandum and the Greek government, outraged about the …

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