The Murder of Alexandros Grigoropoulos
06/12/2014
On the 6th December of 2008, 15 year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos was gunned down in cold blood by a police officer in the center of Athens. The murder proved to be…
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Greece΄s top tax collector΄s dubious past at PwC
13/11/2014
Aikaterini Savvaidou, the General Secretary for Public Revenue, was until June 2014 a senior ranking official at PwC at a time when it was setting up tax avoidance schemes for…
Who is the Guy representing you?
22/05/2014
Guy Verhofstadt, candidate for EU Commission president, sits on the board of a multinational looking to gain from the privatization of water utilities in Greece. It is widely known that…
The diverse wines of the Peloponnese: a handy guide
26/03/2014
For the lovers of the diverse wines of the man-made island which produces one third of all Greek wines, finding English language information for all the different varieties can be…
Athens of 2014, meet Cairo of 1875, you have a lot in common
19/03/2014
A biography written 50 years ago about the poet Cavafy living 150 years ago in Egypt is not the first place one would look for insights into Greece’s current crisis.…
Get your Greeks On Route 66
13/03/2014
"It runs from Chicago to LA, more than 2.000 miles all the way…" It might be the most famous road trip in the world; it is surely a much beloved…
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…
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…
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…
The girls who kicked corruption’s nest
24/01/2014
The Hellenic Postbank scandal and the armament procurement bribes – currently surfacing at a torrential rate – continue to make daily headlines. However despite the importance of the cases, they…