There are a number of perks to being a Greek member of parliament. Aside from a plump salary there’s also the free coffee. Lots of free coffee. Thousands of euros…
An agreement with Gazprom is reached to reduce the price of gas; mixed messages emerge from yesterday’s negotiations with the troika; work over WWII reparations is shelved; hotel workers in…
According to the German magazine Der Spiegel, the STN Atlas representative in Athens, charged in the defense bribes probe, was sending quarterly reports to Grillo, then CEO, about the German…
A recently launched social media campaign by inmates in Greece’s Korydallos prison is drawing attention to the deplorable conditions in what passes for the prison’s hospital. Designed for 60 patients,…
The Bank of Greece accuses the IMF of playing dirty games; hopes that the government will use the primary surplus to help vulnerable citizens are waning; the government gives media…
Greek and European officials are accused of being in denial over the effects of spending cuts in health care. “Greece no longer has a health system,” says president of Medecins…
The prospectus filed by Aegean Marine Petroleum Network Inc. prior to the company’s 2006 listing on the New York Stock Exchange provides a wealth of details about Dimitris Melissanidis’s past…
Shortages of the flu vaccine mean that 40% of those in high risk groups have still not been vaccinated according to the Athens Medical Association. The shortages have already contributed…
The new government schedule for negotiations with the troika; fuel smuggling rackets have made 25 billion euros in profits; new testimony in the NGO fraud case implicates former PM George…
In Greece’s ongoing negotiations with its troika of lenders of crucial importance is the primary budget surplus the government claims to have achieved for 2013. Yet despite the central significance…