February 12, 2013
Very Mix
Supermarket chain Carrefour/Marinopoulos removed two products from its deep fridges on suspicion they contain horse meat. The products “Lasagna Bolognese” Carefour, 1kilo and “Cannelloni Bolognese” Carrefour, 600 gr have been manufacturing internationally on behalf of Carrefour by French Comigel. ” French food firm Comigel manufactures the Findus lasagnes found to contain …
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February 5, 2013
Very Mix
Irelands’ “number one” burger producer suspended production after after tests showed that horsemeat was found in firm’s raw material ingredients. Ireland’s agriculture department confirmed the findings pointing the finger at Poland as the country of origin for the raw materials. Irish beefburger producer Rangeland Foods has customers in the UK, Greece, Belgium, Sweden, …
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January 15, 2013
Politics
I have been trying to make a clue about the infamous Lagarde list and the much too many usb memory sticks that have been copied and recopied again and again the assistants of government officials and “even destroyed”, according to the latest testimony by the former heads of Financial Crimes Units …
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December 27, 2012
Politics
A fraud attempt to extract almost 150,000 euro from Greek National Tourism Organization lead to the arrest of five people, including a former special adviser to ex-GNTO general secretary Nikos Karachalios. The fraud was disclosed when last Friday a woman tried to get a payment for a cheque bearing allegedly …
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October 31, 2012
Very Mix
There is an interesting development in the Greece- SIEMENS bribes scandal coming from Germany. According to a report by Sueddeutsche Zeitung/The Local.de, Greek judiciary is to pursue elven executives of SIEMENS on charges of bribing Greek politicians and public officials. Moreover Greece plans even to issue an international arrest warrant …
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October 24, 2012
Economy
The e-mail sent by German Finance Ministry State Secretary Thomas Steffen landed in the inbox of Greek Finance Ministry last Saturday, Greek media report. In an unprecedented attack of self-complacent and arrogance, Germany was asking Greeks to create an escrow account into which Lenders’ loan tranches but also Greece’s revenues from …
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October 11, 2012
Economy, Politics
This morning I wrote about Troikans being paranoid with a disease developing at full speed. Just hours later, my prediction came true. It’s all over the Greek press, that the Troika suggested that Greeks residing on islands with less than 150 inhabitants should be relocated somewhere else! This insane demand was allegedly …
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October 4, 2012
Economy
No, it’s not a typo, but it’s certainly the joke of the next four centuries! Greece’s biggest insurance fund IKA found a very generous way to help a private company to pay outstanding debts in social security contributions. The company will have the possibility to pay to IKA 300,000 euro in 4,700 …
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August 3, 2012
Economy
Members of the Greek Parliament were stunned to hear the governor of the Bank of Greece, Giorgos Provopoulos, saying that “a very senior member of the Agricultural Bank transferred money abroad and that there is an investigation going on on the issue. Some 8 to 10 million euro The transfer took place …
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July 14, 2012
Economy, Society
I can’t believe what I am reading here. And this I can tell you right away: It is one of the most horrible nightmares, when a state exploits those who cannot defend themselves and deliberately proceeds to actions that should be illegal in any democratic country. Money-broke Greek Health Ministry is about …
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May 14, 2012
Economy, Society
One of the many Greek miracles! A man has been receiving a 700-euro allowance on a monthly basis for being 100% blind. “What’s wrong with that?” one may ask. Nothing would be the answer if the man wasn’t a local champion in pool billiard! The man, who also happens to …
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April 4, 2012
Very Mix
Luxury holidays? Exclusive Conferences? Missions ‘impossible’? Extravagant Projects? Social events? Like a private PR and Events company, Greece’s more powerful union GENOP-DEI allegedly spent money of the Public Power Company (DEI) to organize the best what a …. union (?) can offer: social events and guests hosting thus with overpriced invoices. A ‘generous’ …
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March 20, 2012
Economy, Society
I really didn’t know that Greece had such a healing climate. Apparently it does. And thus with the effect that blinds can see, and paralyzed can walk. This can be the conclusion when one reads the news about the scandal of ‘fake disabled’ Greek fraudsters who used to extort real social …
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March 15, 2012
Economy
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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March 3, 2012
Economy, Politics
A big apology, investments in Greece, 700 new jobs and scholarships is the compensation that the giant SIEMENS will pay to Greece for the bribes it gave fro several decades to secure public contracts. The compensation list includes also 170 million euro in cash and a statement of support that …
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December 29, 2011
Economy
While wages and pensions are sharply cut and the extraordinary taxes kneel millions of Greek households , the state continues to be generous with public money. This modern and yawing empty building in the North of Athens was rent by the Greek Finance Ministry in April 2010 (one month before Greece officially …
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November 28, 2011
Economy
We in Greece are used to read and write about cases dragged from week to week, from month to month and from year to year. Such a case is the allegedly falsified budget deficit of 2009, that was apparently revised upwards in order to force Greece to take harsh austerity measures. Last September …
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September 16, 2011
Economy
Remember the Greek Statistics scandal where deficit was trimmed down? Allegedly there is a new scandal with Statistics when the deficit went … up, should we believe Zoi Georganta, board member of the Greek Statistics Authority (ELSTAT). Georganta and some other board members were sacked on Thursday by Finance Minister …
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June 23, 2011
Sports
A legal file with 93,000 pages, powerful names of local soccer officials, at least 90 suspects and 41 fixed matches are reportedly involved the big scale scandal that sweeps through the Greek soccer and shakes the county. Presidents of Football Clubs, referees, soccer players and bookmakers they give the jack of the porsecutors’ door in …
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June 2, 2011
Very Mix
They came to teach Greeks financial discipline and expenditure cuts. A Spartan way of life. However the ladies and gentlemen from the European Union Commission under the chairmanship of Portuguese J. M. Barroso live a live in luxury with expensive cocktail parties, private jets, luxurious away-days with spa and foam baths, …
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