When the New York Police Department invited Twitter users to share pictures of themselves posing with police officers under the hashtag #myNYPD, it could be said that they were asking…
Eurostat verifies the Greek primary budgets surplus; yet despite government and troika optimism the surplus appears to be the result of ‘creative accounting’; the EC defers debt discussions until the…
In an interview with Vasiliki Siouti, Costas Lapavitsas, professor of economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) of London and an early evangelist in favour of a…
Exactly four years ago today, the 23rd of April, Prime Minister George Papandreou the Younger announced to the world that Greece, frozen out of the international debt markets, would be…
A move by Electroniki Athinon to ask its employees to donate a month’s wages in order to ‘contribute to the economic revival’ of the company has provoked outrage, and highlights…
Evangelos Marinakis is a powerful businessman and a friend to the Greek PM; he is one of the top shipowners in the world with his company listed on the NASDAQ;…
A 17-year-old high school student has testified before court about a knife attack he suffered in January 2013 in the neighborhood of Paleo Faliro. The young man suffered serious knife…
SYRIZA accused of scoring an ΄own goal΄ over the withdrawal of the candidacy of Sabiha Suleiman; a serious blaze at the Hellenic Petroleum refinery goes unreported; PM Antonis Samaras claims…
The government has placed its hopes on the Eurogroup’s possible announcement of debt relief. The so-called ‘social dividend’ proves hard to get for applicants. Greek EU Presidency expected to break…