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The president of European Broadcasting Union (EBU) Jean-Paul Philippot is currently in Athens to discuss the issue of ERT shutdown with Greek finance minister Yiannis Stournaras, who is now the holder of ownership title of the public broadcaster. He is reportedly to ask Stournaras and the government to reestablish ERT …

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The IMF’s review on its Greek program was released late last night. The 51-pages document on Greece’s fiscal adjustment program 2010-2013 is more than clear: The IMF screwed Greeks for three consecutive years. The IMF failed to realize the damage  austerity would do. The IMF failed to predict the real …

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The armed robbers of Velento physically resisted arrests therefore the injuries on their faces, Greek police said on Friday, dismissing claims of they were tortured during interrogation. The head of Greece Police internal affairs department, Panagiotis Stathis, said during a press conference that the injuries of the four young robbers were sustained …

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I saw this one man recently while I was turning my usual walking rounds at the coast of Athens, in Palaio Faliro. A man in his late 40’s, tall, well-built, dressed in cord trousers and jacket, shirt and pullover. From far away, I had the feeling the man was standing or walking extremely slowly. …

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Greek Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos believes that the October 26th Agreement with EU gives country has up to four times … more benefits in relation to the “package” of July 21th and the relief of interest rates worth of € 4.5 billion annually – that is “as much as a ‘multi-bill’ per …

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Aha! Now we know. We don’t need the sixth bailout tranche as soon as possible. As long as Greek taxpayers are large, we can wait. There will be no delays in salaries and pension payments in October. That was said more or less by Greek Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos during …

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Sibyl spoke and the audience tries to untie the knot of magic oracling especially those concerning the new austerity measures. All those who watched the press conference of Finance minister Evangelos Venizelos via live television broadcast have been wondering about the absence of announcing the new measures. The trick was simple: …

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Tax and customs officers on strike occupied the boardroom of the Finance Ministry in Athens just before Greek Finance Minister and deputy Prime Minister Evangelos Venizelos started his press conference. The union of striking officers protested the impending cuts in their wages and benefits due to the new pay-roll for the …

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I don’t like at all what I read and hear, I don’t like at all what Greece Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos said on Tuesday afternoon. I don’t like it because when a Finance Minister gets the absolute No-No word in his mouth is extremely worrying. He sounds as if he …

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That was high time! That elected members of this debt-ridden country put also their hand deeper in their pockets as citizens do since one year. Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos announced during a press conference, that a 5% -special-contribution will be applied to lawmakers, elected municipality officials and other high ranking …

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Euro-Indians Chief*, Jean Claude Juncker spitted out a raw blackmail towards the  Greek politicians and  intervened once again in the internal democratic procedures of a sovereign country. he even implied a “contagion” – as interpreted by the international media -, in case Greeks won’t adopt the Mid-Term Austerity Programme. Video J-C Juncker “If not.., …

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