Valentine΄s in the crisis: A chance to relearn how to love?
14/02/2014
"…But Greece gets to you. And when relief from the harshness of poverty and struggles of life comes in the form of a half eaten sandwich in a bin on…
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MEPs: The troika acted ‘more like a butcher than a surgeon’
14/02/2014
A ‘social tsunami’ was the result of troika policies in Memorandum countries according to Alejandro Cercas, the MEP behind a report critical of the troika that was backed yesterday by…
Press Review February 14
14/02/2014
The troika acted like a butcher rather than a surgeon according to European Parliament Committee; the European Commission is planning to loot social security funds; the historic Halyvourgiki steelworks (pictured)…
How a Greek politician is attempting to rewrite history by suing Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia he doesn’t understand
13/02/2014
Theodoros Katsanevas, a Greek politician and one time son-in-law of Andreas Papandreou is seeking 200,000 euros in damages and the imprisonment for one-year of a young Wikipedia administrator over allegations…
Come in but keep your coat on: four in ten Athens apartment buildings are without heating
13/02/2014
Almost 50% of the heating oil boilers in the capital have remained dormant this winter as residents are unable to afford the cost of fuel.
The ‘r’ in Grecovery is for record unemployment: 28% is a new historical high
13/02/2014
Despite government confidence that Greece is turning the corner economically, the unemployment rate is continuing to rise. The ΄Grecovery΄ is now in the realm of the absurd: 3.5m workers are…
CIA and Turkish Intelligence agencies participated in operation to arrest Turkish terrorist suspects in Athens
13/02/2014
The arrests two days ago of four individuals in the Athens neighborhood of Gizi were the product of a joint anti-terrorist operation conducted by the CIA, the Turkish MIT and…
Press Review February 13
13/02/2014
The cyber net to catch tax evaders tightens; new assessment rules will give 15% of civil servants ‘poor’ rating; 23 state bodies are to be eliminated; the taxpayer is to…
Journalist arrested on suspicion of leaking state secrets after publishing the (publicly available) text of a recently passed law
12/02/2014
Reporter Popi Christodoulidou was hauled before police today on suspicion of having revealed top secret military information over a blog post consisting of little more than the text of a…