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Press Review Apr 30: Greece present, Tsipras absent from the EU elections TV debate
30/04/2014
Alexis Tsipras is absent from the second debate between candidates for the president of the European Commission; the muslim minority of Thrace is to be represented by its own party…
TV journalist turned New Democracy candidate: In 2012 planeloads of cash were flown into Greece but we buried the story
29/04/2014
Questions over the role of the media in Greece’s crisis have been re-raised by the admission of a former TV reporter (and current candidate with the governing party) that journalists…
SouvLEAP, the gesture controlled spit, reinvents Greek Easter
29/04/2014
Easter may have come and gone but this video of Greek students converting the traditional lamb spit roast into a technological marvel is too good to ignore.
Vulture funds at the ready as government to auction citizens’ homes at super-low prices
29/04/2014
Significant changes are to be implemented over the auctions of the homes and properties of those with outstanding debts to the state. The properties of those with unpaid taxes will…
Press Review April 29: Properties going, going, gone, for those with unpaid taxes
29/04/2014
Home auctions for those with unpaid debts to the state; the new Medium Term budget will bring higher taxes and smaller pensions; a major overhaul of trade union legislation is…
Government to Piraeus Bank: never mind the taxes
28/04/2014
An article included in an omnibus draft bill due to be voted on in parliament this week will effectively let Piraeus Bank off the hook for many tens of millions…
Antonis Samaras: I want to change the law but you’ll have to ask Angela Merkel first
28/04/2014
“Go to Angela Merkel and ask her to write a letter to the troika.” That is what Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras reportedly told Richard Weber, president of the Association…
Press Review April 28: Young champions
28/04/2014
Panathinaikos F.C. wins the Greek Football Cup; the real deficit is actually greater than it was in 2009; new hidden austerity measures are in the pipeline; many Greeks are declaring…