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The occasional initiatives that all Greek governments take to change taxation scare the Greek people before they are even implemented...

Did you know that a Bishop is not allowed to visit another Diocese without the permission of the local Bishop? That is how it is. It is one of the...

The election of a top-level officer in Greece is typically the starting point of a scandal. Even in times of political calmness, the election...

In a few days we will celebrate the 40th anniversary of the fall of the dictatorship and the restoration of parliamentary regime. The anniversary...

At Alpha Bank's board meeting last Thursday, the bank's historic president Mr. Yannis Kostopoulos submitted his resignation after almost...

Today the people are going to decide and vote on what happens in public life and the country at large. The election results will be a true indicator...

Everything that is revealed and described in today’s edition of To Vima regarding the collapse of the G. Papandreou government and the peak of the crisis that...

Miles Copeland, the American CIA agent, served in Egypt in the 1960s. He lived through the overthrow of the corrupt king of Egypt Farouk, the army's revolution...

Irrespective of political beliefs, everyone is talking about the need for a renewal in Greek politics. Of course, when the discussion gets serious...

Whenever the Right governed the country, it wore the... fez of the Center Right. It was paradoxical, but amongst the conservative yet democratic...

As the conflict within the so-called Center Left increase, New Democracy’s government becomes more entrenched; the party of Konstantinos Karamanlis...

The clouds are breaking up, the ghosts are fading away, the light at the end of the tunnel is not an illusion – so what? What does recovery mean for all us Greeks and...

Imagine a country where there is a... beer monopoly enforced. Say one industry has completely dominated and in control of the market. It has a factory...

Political history, modern and older, is full of mistakes committed by political leaders who were not distinguished for their foolishness. The mistakes of Konstantinos ...

Like it or not, bipartisanship entrenched itself in Greece in the past forty years. Never before had our country experienced a democratic regime for such a long time, since the revolution of 1821. After the collapse of the colonels’ dictatorship, Konstantinos Karamanlis set the foundations of the democratic rule that the Greek people have enjoyed […]

What is a mayor? Only the naïve would truly believe that they are locally elected leaders who spend their time on common affairs, as part of a...

The vultures that nested in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is a story that will nor probably affect the elections, whenever they take place. The scandal is timeless and affects all parties and it will be documented in history as such. The first indication is that the names of the protagonists officially remain unknown. Who […]

The post of mayor is primarily used as a preamble or launching pad into political power; it has been used as a consolation for those who have failed (i.e. candidate MPs who didn’t manage to get elected); and in a few cases, the post was honored by people who accomplished a lot with it. Today […]

The political parties in Greece have shrunk… They continually loose more of the influence they used to have; they do not have the money to make things happens and they have already collected in advance a large portion of the State subsidies; they have lost their credibility and are finding it incredibly difficult to be […]

A ghost has been haunting the Ministry of Finances for some time now. It possibly belongs to the Sultan who became known in contemporary mythology as the Taxpusher. And what a terrible end he had… For those who don’t remember of haven’t heard the story, it is worth having a listen: back in those days, […]