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  • Greece. Top four tourist spot.
    Greece high on list for EU tourists
    15 Mar 2010 (0)

    Greece is fast becoming the fourth most popular tourist destination in the European Union for 2010 according to the Eurobarometer survey released last week.

  • Greece. Poverty.
    20 percent of Greeks below poverty line
    14 Mar 2010 (0)

    Twenty percent of Greece’s population are facing poverty according to a survey conducted by the National Statistics Service on living conditions and income earned in 2008.

  • Obama. George. Washington.
    Papandreou in Washington
    14 Mar 2010 (0)

    The Greek Prime Minister, George Papandreou, spent two days in Washington last week meeting with US President Barack Obama and other senior figures in his administration.

  • Nationwide strike. Shutdown.
    Nationwide strike brings Greece to standstill
    12 Mar 2010 (0)

    More than 30,000 people took to the streets of Athens on Thursday as part of the second nationwide strike in Greece against the austerity measures announced by the Papandreou government.

  • A bronze statue of emperor Alexander the Great.
    Two caught with artifacts
    9 Mar 2010 (0)

    Greek police arrested two men last week for trying to sell several artifacts, including a bronze sculpture of emperor Alexander the Great from the 4th century B.C., for which the asking price was 7

  • Manolis Glezos, 88, is stopped by riot police outside the Greek Parliament.
    "We will become their crisis"
    9 Mar 2010 (0)

    Downtown Athens was paralysed once again on Friday when thousands of Greeks took to the streets to protest against the country’s newly announced package of austerity measures.

  • Third round of new austerity measures bite hard
    4 Mar 2010 (0)

    The Papandreou government has announced a thid round of austerity measures which are designed to meet European Union demands for savings.

  • ND leader launches attack on Greek PM
    3 Mar 2010 (0)

    Main opposition New Democracy (ND) party leader Antonis Samaras launched a strong attack on Greek Prime Minister George Papandrou on Tuesday evening in response to the Prime Minister's earlier addr

  • Papandreou. Further austerity measures.
    Greek PM: tough measures to be taken on economy
    3 Mar 2010 (0)

    Prime Minister George Papandreou, addressing his PASOK party's Parliamentary Group on Tuesday, announced the taking of tough but necessary measures for the salvation of the economy and the country.

  • George Papapandrou. Matthew Nimetz
    Nimetz sees ‘solution’
    28 Feb 2010 (0)

    United Nations special envoy Matthew Nimetz said Friday that progress is being made on finding a basis on which Greece and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) can work to solve their

  • Greeks protest. Offensive cover.
    Greek anger at German reports
    28 Feb 2010 (0)

    Greek Parliament Speaker Filippos Petsalnikos has condemned German press reports on Greece’s financial crisis that he said “surpassed all limits” and invited Germany’s ambassador to Greece, Wolfgan

  • Aegean. Olympic. Merger.
    Olympic Air and rival Aegean agree to merge
    28 Feb 2010 (0)

    Greece’s two largest airlines, Olympic Air and rival Aegean, have announced that they have agreed to join forces in a bid to survive the country’s economic downturn and increased competition in the

  • Parliamentary probe. The economy.
    Parliament probes economy for answers
    28 Feb 2010 (0)

    The Papandreou government proposal to set up of a Parliamentary fact-finding committee into the economy was approved last week despite the strong opposition from main Opposition party, New Democrac

  • Smoking bans. Greece.
    Blanket ban on smoking for Greece
    28 Feb 2010 (0)

    The possibility of smoking being banned in all public places is an option being seriously considered by the Greek Health Ministry, as officials held talks with workers’ unions with a view to overha

  • Greece. General strike.
    Nationwide strike paralyzes Greece
    25 Feb 2010 (0)

    A nationwide strike called by public and private sector unions in Greece over the austerity program introduced by the Papandreou Government saw police clash with demonstrators on the sidelines of t

  • Olympic Air, Aegean agree to merge
    24 Feb 2010 (0)

    Greece's two largest airlines, Olympic Air and rival Aegean, have announced that they have agreed to join forces in a bid to survive the country's economic downturn and increased competition in the

  • PM briefed on progress of Stability-Growth Program
    24 Feb 2010 (0)

    Prime Minister George Papandreou on Tuesday was briefed by Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou on the progress made in implementing the Greek government's now closely watched Stability and Gro

  • PM: Greece asking for political support
    22 Feb 2010 (0)

    Greece is asking for political support and time to implement its Stability and Growth Program and prove that it is once again trustworthy, prime minister George Papandreou said in an interview with

  • Police shootout. Vyronas.
    Worker dies in police raid
    22 Feb 2010 (0)

    A 25-year-old plumber was killed last week in the eastern Athens district of Vyronas after getting caught in a shoot-out between two criminal suspects and police officers.

  • Reforestation. Attiki.
    Reforestation on the cards
    22 Feb 2010 (0)

    The Environment Ministry last week heralded an ambitious scheme to reforest some 10,000 hectares of burnt forestland on the outskirts of Attiki.

  • Unroadworthy cars. Missing tests.
    One in three cars has missed road safety test
    22 Feb 2010 (0)

    Roughly one-third of all cars on Greek roads have not passed a roadworthiness test (KTEO) in the last three years, according to figures made public last week by the owners of private KTEO centres.<

  • Papandreou. Putin. Moscow.
    George Papandreou and Vladimir Putin meet in Moscow
    19 Feb 2010 (0)

    Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin expressed their desire to further develop strategic relations between their two countries following their meeting in

  • Year of the Tiger. Athens.
    Chinese celebrate the Year of the Tiger in Athens
    19 Feb 2010 (0)

    Kotzia square in the centre of Athens, just opposite the Athens City Hall, was turned into a small "Chinese corner" on Sunday, as the Chinese community in Greece, joined by thousands of Greeks, cel

  • Greece: 30-day deadline to get it right
    19 Feb 2010 (0)

    European Union finance ministers last week gave Greece a month to prove that it is able to get its public finances back on track, as Athens insisted it is up to the job and will not need to take an

  • Papandreou. Allocates responsibilities.
    Papandreou attacks EU and New Democracy for debt crisis
    16 Feb 2010 (0)

    A day after the European Union (EU) provided Greece with political support in its bid to rescue its public finances, George Papandreou accused Brussels of being “timid,” lacking coordination and of

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