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Some 150 recognized refugees were transferred from Victoria Square in downtown Athens to reception facilities in Skaramangas and Schisto in western Attica. Men, women and children had camped at the square after they were forced out of camps on the islands following due to the recent policy of Migration Ministry …

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20,000 refugees will have been transferred from the islands to the mainland by the end of the year, Minister for Citizen Protection, Michalis Chrysochoidis, said on Thursday. Transferred will be families that will be hosted in hotels and accommodation facilities. The option to host them in military camps has been …

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Titan S.A., one of the biggest cement producers in South-East Europe and an industrial cornerstone in Greece for 116 years, dropped a bombshell late on Thursday. The company said it is transferring its corporate headquarters to Belgium, citing difficult and expensive borrowing in Greece. Titan follows other major industrial units, …

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Archaeologists and sites Guards are up in arms after the  Greek Finance Ministry issued a decision ordering the trasnfer several historical sites and buildings,  museums, monuments and historical buildings to the Super Privatization Fund. “They belong de facto to the state and are off any trade,” the Greek Archaeologists Association …

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Greece has taken further steps to ease the capital control restrictions as of 1. March 2018. Euclid Tsakalotos has approved a series of measures that ease the restrictions, the decision has been already published in the official gazette. The measures raise among others the monthly withdrawal limit and allow the …

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For the first time, there will be a direct shipping link connecting the islands of the Ionian Sea. Ilida Paxos Hydrofoil announced this week the beginning of direct coastal shipping links between the Ionian islands starting on May 1. The 30-meter “High Speed Azimut” vessel will connect Greece’s westernmost islands …

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Greek police along with authorities representatives, officials from the International Organization for Migration and interpreters, conclude the clearing out of a makeshift migrants camp at the premises of the old Athens airport Hellinikon. Buses arrived at the camp on Friday morning, by noon they had left the area with 168 …

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Greece has formally completed the transfer of 14 regional airports to a consortium led by Germany’s Fraport AG, in a privatization that is a key element of the country’s bailout program. The Greek state privatization agency says that under the deal signed Tuesday the consortium has paid a 1.23 billion-euro …

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What did the economic adviser to PM Lucas Papadimos do right right between the two elections of 2012? He transferred €450 thousands abroad out of fear the country would collapse. Τwo years later, the same man, Gkikas Hardouvelis accepted PM Samaras’ offer and assumed the office of finance ministry of …

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A lawmaker from Samaras’ Nea Dimokratia, one from former Samaras’ juniior coaltion partner Democratic Left and one from nationalist opposition Independent Greeks. The three MPs saw their names in a statement issued by the Greek Finance Ministry on Monday. A statement saying that they had transferred money abroad. also the …

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Greece’s public sector unions umbrella ADEDY will launch a half-day strike on Monday, July 8th 2013 to protest the upcoming mass lay-offs in the public sector. The strike will stat at 12 o’ clock noon. There will be a gathering at 12:30 at Karaiskaki Square in downtown Athens and a …

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6,000 individuals and companies transferred several million euros outside Cyprus during the first two weeks of March, even hours before the two-weeks long closing of the banking system on March 15th 2013. A list with these names was handed out by the Central bank to a parliamentary committee assigned to …

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Theodoros Pantalakis, former Chairman and Governor of state Agricultural Bank, ATE, saw no wrongdoing in transferring 8 million euros abroad. He told Sunday newspaper Real News, the money he transferred abroad was the family’s savings after tax deduction. The family wanted to buy a property in London therefore the transfer, the …

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Several thousands Greek policemen will be mobilized in order to combat the dramatically increasing of crime and illegal immigration, it was announced by Minister for Citizen Protection Nikos Dendias. On Monday he said, that he has given orders so that 1,500 policemen available for the security of persons and other potential targets to be transferred to …

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