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According to Independent Public Revenue Authority data, the new sum total of delinquent debt rose from 6.4bn euros in at the end of August to 7.8bn euros at the end of September.

Interior and Administrative Reconstruction Minister Mariliza Xenogiannakopoulou spoke of 8,000 regular hirings, including 3,257 for the Help at Home Programme and 4,500 Special Education teachers.

The coroner stated that the kicks to the head while Kostopoulos was on his knees in the store-front, trying to exit the jewelry shop in which he had been locked in, were decisive.

The 'social dividend' does not derive from the economy’s 'super-performance' as the PM claims, but from the destructive over-taxation that saps the income of the vast majority of Greek citizens.

Upon his departure from Athens’ Evelpidon Courthouse, the convicted Rouvikonas member announced his sentence on Facebook and called the trial “a parody”.

Mylonas, who became notorious and known around Greece as Rihardos, the name of his business which he advertised heavily on Greek television, claimed that he had branches in Portugal and Spain as well.

The new regime will facilitate the sale of NPLs if they are systemic, which is to say that they exceed a certain substantial level and “clean up” the balance sheets.

'Today we are tabling the draft bill on the social dividend [a one-time handout for the lowest economic brackets]. We are giving to the weakest, with family and social criteria,' the PM told parliament today.

'The motivations of the pre-electoral period should not lead us into adventures that are analogous to what we experienced and paid for in 2015,' Simitis stated,

The merger of the two companies' tanker fleets under joint management sends ripples across international shipping

Varthomomeos stresses the PM’s historic responsibility, and declared that he will under no circumstance accept the removal from the Constitution of the references to the Patriarchate and to the Patriarchal and 1928 Synodal Act.

Watsa told Bloomberg that once Eurobank's NPL problem is resolved, “You’ll have a very well capitalised bank in a very good position to serve the Greek clients as well as the Greek economy.”

State Minister Alekos Flamboraris [one of the PM’s most trusted advisors], Environment and Energy Minister Yorgos Stathakis, and Deputy Prime Minister and Economy Minister Yannis Dragasakis are believed to be implicated in the affair.

Protracted political uncertainty and all that accompanies it may shoo away even those who believe that bargains are to be found in Greece.

'The salaries and pensions and healthcare of the clergy will be guaranteed absolutely, transparently, and categorically,' Gavroglu declared after his meeting with Ieronymos today.

The European Court of Human Rights decision stated that the imprisonment of the Kurdish politician aimed at stifling democratic debate and pluralism.

“Who are you with – the university students or the thugs? We are with the students and not with those occupying campus buildings. We stand for legality and normalcy,” ND leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis declared.

It is time for the state to wake up and adjust the antiquated and leveling law to contemporary realities, and for the judiciary to impose punishment that is analogous to the crime.

ND now has a whopping 16.5 percentage point lead – 38.5 percent versus SYRIZA’s 22 percent - in voter intention in the poll, which was conducted between 6 November and 11 November .

'This is about the dignity of pensioners and demonstrates the importance of having a government that is concerned about pensioners,' he declared.