Greece
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Stournaras seeks checks on assets of tax officials
The Finance Minister has asked the ministry’s internal affairs department to check the assets of 240 senior ministry and regional officials who have handled tax inspection.
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Golden Dawn targets toddlers
Golden Dawn says it will create nursery schools for Greek children
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Ex-minister handed eight years
Akis Tsochatzopoulos calls eight-year jail sentence ‘political persecution’
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Samaras to Turkey to discuss Aegean, other gray areas
Prime Minister Antonis Samaras is due in Istanbul today, in his first official visit to Turkey as premier, for talks that are expected to touch on several thorny bilateral issues
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Stournaras discusses nine issues with troika
The first meeting between the heads of the representation of Greece’s creditors in Athens and Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras this month took place on Sunday
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Inspectors to check taxpayers’ bank accounts
Criticism from the country’s international creditors has pushed the decision.
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Government hopes to avert layoff talks
As troika return, Greek officials seek way to limit impact of public sector overhaul
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Athens air pollution found at 15 times above EU alert level
80 per cent of the pollution was being caused by wood fires
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Thessaloniki ex-mayor gets life term for embezzlement
Papageorgopoulos and two former municipal aides handed stiff sentences for filching 18 mln euros
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Neo-nazi party target children
Golden Dawn begins ‘national awareness’ tutorials for schoolchildren