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If the prime minister cares for the country and truly loves the people, which he often invokes, let him put the knife in the sheath, and pursue political peace and consensus, at least on the overarching issue of the debt.

When Special Counsel Robert Mueller struck a plea bargain with Mike Flynn, leading to yesterday’s historic admission of guilt for lying to the FBI, he already had done the same with a young Greek-American who found himself on Donald Trump’s national security team with very little background in the field.

Greek electricity bills are inflated by 13 percent “due to the government’s disastrous policy of prohibiting competition in the domestic electricity market”, says former energy minister MP Yannis Maniatis.

One package of reforms must be passed into law before Christmas, and a much larger basket of reforms must be legislated in the first week of January.

Greece has for years made clear that without a mutually acceptable resolution of the name dispute, Athens will continue to block its neighbour’s membership.

Interior Minister Panos Skourletis said the government will legislate proportional representation in general elections, thus eliminating the 50 parliamentary seat bonus allotted to the top party.

Cuts in family stipends, and social welfare benefits in general, remain a thorny issue in talks between creditors and the government, as they are obviously hugely unpopular.

At a time when the tax bureau conducts 2,000 bank deposit seizures a day, a consolation prize for 1,000 taxpayers every month will not change the situation.

Greece has the highest unemployment rate in the EU, with its 20.6 percent in August, followed by Spain’s 16.7 percent in the same month.

Olympiacos F.C. owner Vangelis Marinakis met with the mayor of Mandra-Eidyllia, Ioanna Kriekouki, who detailed the damages and suffering endured by Mandra residents.

Stock prospects are good due to strong global growth. The rate of increase in corporate profits, which is projected at an average of 10 percent internationally, is expected to be reflected in rising stock prices.

At the bequest of Greece’s creditors, the government is planning to institute sweeping changes in top-level civil service appointments that aim to bolster meritocracy and policy continuity. The creditors are demanding the appointment of permanent general secretaries at ministries, who will be chosen in a transparent competition, for a four-year term. At times in the […]

Banks, online auctions of foreclosed properties, and non-performing loans top the agenda for talks between the government and creditors in Athens today. The two sides will also focus on course of revenues and the impact of over-taxation in a series of meetings at the Athens Hilton. The four general areas that will be discussed with […]

The violent scenes we saw yesterday at foreclosed property auctions did not come out of nowhere. They are the result of the sterile, allegedly revolutionary rhetoric that was systematically cultivated in the past by members of the current ruling party. Before coming to power, the prime minister himself, his cabinet members, and MPs had raised […]

The Qatari based Al Jazeera international news organisation, the closure of which was demanded by Saudi Arabia, has provided extensive print and video coverage of the backlash from the abortive Greek-Saudi munitions deal.

A European Parliament resolution states that the parliament, “Strongly criticises the intensive arms trade of Member States with various countries in the region, as in the cases of the UK, Spain, France and Germany and calls for an immediate suspension of arms transfers and military support to Saudi Arabia

One thousand taxpayers will be drawn from the plastic money purchase receipts lottery to receive 1,000 euros each.

Among the bondholders who opted to participate in the swap were Greek private banks, insurance funds, and international investors.

The evidence confiscated by police in yesterday’s raids includes a Czech CZ (Ceska Sbrojovska) pistol used by marksmen, digital evidence, detonators, commercially available material used in bomb construction, and travel documents.

The outburst of residents of Mandra, Western Attica, at the regional council may not have been to the liking of prefect Rena Dourou, yet it was to be expected. Over two weeks after the disastrous flood that left an entire city in a shambles, the mobilisation of state services is not what it should have […]