Greece
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Greece may opt for unusual president to avoid snap polls, Venizelos says
Greece’s 300-seat house is too fragmented to easily come up with the 180 votes needed to elect a president.
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Mitsotakis turns to Supreme Court as more mayors resist evaluation
Mayors are refusing to provide the government with data for the evaluation of civil servants.
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SYRIZA attacks ’empty handed’ Samaras
The party accuses Prime Minister Antonis Samaras that he failed to live up to expectations that he himself had set.
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Ministry plans to remove sex education from school curriculum
They want to scrap the chapter on human reproduction from biology textbooks.
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Samaras tells Merkel Greece is ready to go it alone
Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras says his government is committed to producing primary budget surpluses.
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Searching for looted antiquities
The only written source concerning antiquities looted in World War II is an incomplete tome from 1946.
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Boutaris shortlisted for world mayor prize
Thessaloniki’s mayor has been chosen among 26 other great mayors for the World Mayor Prize 2014.
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More Greeks turn to private health insurance
38.7 per cent of Greeks paid for private insurance this year.
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Greece ranked last in social justice index
German survey findings put the country at the bottom of the European Union.