Death by a thousand (health) cuts
24/02/2014
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…
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SEC filings shed light on Greek billionaire΄s legal past
24/02/2014
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…
Flu vaccine shortages have led to the deaths of 58 patients (so far) according to Athens Medical Association
24/02/2014
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…
Press Review February 24
24/02/2014
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…
The Greek Primary Surplus Handbook
22/02/2014
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…
Ryanair to broke Greek jobseekers: Your CV and 3000 euros might just land you a job
21/02/2014
Desperately awaiting to register for a chance to fill one of the newly created job openings for Ryanair in Greece and unaware of the airliner΄s practices, jobseekers were surprised to…
Press Review February 21
21/02/2014
Scenes from WWII in Ukraine, Golden Dawn is covering its digital tracks, banks pass Blackrock΄s stress tests, once impossible to find flu vaccine now given away and natural gas imminently…
Greek Tweep uses official account of H&M to spread the love… of PAOK F.C.
20/02/2014
What would you say if you could speak to the world? Or at least the 3.19 million followers of H&M clothing stores?
2030: the year Greece should return to the markets according to leading Brussels think tank
20/02/2014
According to economists of the Bruegel think tank, the current plans being discussed for Greece to return to the markets are likely to be far too optimistic. Instead the authors…
Magistrates request lifting of immunity for all Golden Dawn MPs
20/02/2014
Special magistrates investigating Golden Dawn have officially requested that parliament suspend immunity for the nine remaining MPs of the neo-fascist party that until now have not been charged with criminal…