Greece
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Government makes headway with prior troika actions
A plan to provide free healthcare and medicines to citizens without health insurance is to be finalised by the end of this week.
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EU sets Albania on road to membership
Albania joins the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), Montenegro and Serbia as official candidates for membership
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Debtors owing emergency property tax to face fines
Debtors’ names will be forwarded to the Finance Ministry.
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EU draft document urges more focus on growth, jobs
The draft also calls more responsibility for the southern Mediterranean migrant crisis faced mainly by Italy, Malta, Greece and Spain.
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Golden Dawn pictures expose Nazi leanings
Golden Dawn party leader Nikos Michaloliakos and other senior party officials are depicted wearing Nazi insignia giving the Nazi salute in front of swastika-emblazoned flags.
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Ticket inspectors face charges over phony fines
Two inspectors arrested for issuing false fines to commuters and pocketing the money themselves.
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Tsipras seeks alliance to fight austerity
SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras has reached out to the Communist Party and the Ecologist Greens.
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‘Athens, Our City’
Radio program acts as a meeting point for the Greek capital’s many cultures