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The unpaid taxes of former Greek PM Lucas Papademos
12/05/2014
It has been revealed that Lucas Papademos, the central banker and technocrat who led Greece’s provisional government in the wake of Greece’s debt crisis and near exit from the eurozone…
How the Greek Banks Secured an Additional, Hidden €41 billion Bailout from European taxpayers
12/05/2014
In 2013 Greek taxpayers borrowed from the rest of Europe’s taxpayers €41 billion to pump into the Greek banks. This is well known. What is not known is that, also…
Press Review May 12: The Final Countdown
12/05/2014
Parties enter final straight to the polls; 7 out of 10 Greeks are unhappy; the troika is to demand more austerity; The Finance Ministry’s bill allowing for the privatization of…
Game of Elections: A Song of Seats and Ballots
09/05/2014
While the simple folk struggle, their lords and rulers engage in conspiracies, backstabbings and violence. There are a number of parallels between modern day Greek politics and the fictional universe…
Anger as banks withhold one-off government payment to the poor
09/05/2014
The government is embarrassed as the supposedly untouchable ‘social dividend’ is snatched out of the accounts of people with outstanding debts to the banks. In response to the outcry Labour…
Our complaint to the National Council for Radio and Television over New Democracy’s campaign ad
09/05/2014
Following the revelation by ThePressProject that New Democracy’s latest TV ad grossly misrepresents statements made by Barack Obama, we registered a complaint with the regulatory authority for broadcasters.
Press Review May 9: A not-so-subtle intervention from the IMF
09/05/2014
The IMF fears ‘political instability’; oil drilling contracts for western Greece are being finalized; the government is looking to sweep aside long-standing zoning regulations in the interest of business profits;…
Misrepresenting Obama, to sell Samaras
08/05/2014
Political TV ads, by their very nature, present a slanted view of reality. But in its latest campaign ad New Democracy has taken massaging the facts to another level, misrepresenting…
Cleaners launch sit-in protest outside Finance Ministry as d-day approaches
08/05/2014
The state employed cleaning women who have been demonstrating almost daily outside the Finance Ministry in the center of Athens since September are ramping up their protest against their impending…