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Private investors seek exemption from haircut

A lobby group representing private investors in the European Union has asked the Prime Minister Lucas Papademos to exclude them from a 53.5 percent haircut on Greek government bond

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Merger plans force Greek doctors to strike

Doctors at public hospitals are reacting to a Health Ministry draft bill which will introduce cost-cutting measures including the merger of healthcare facilities.

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List of Greek PMs moving funds abroad grows

Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos told Parliament that a significant number of lawmakers had moved sums in excess of 100,000 euros out of the country.

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Greece in for another year of deep recession

Brussels forecasts that economic activity will continue to suffer, but prices may drop a little.

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Journalist fined for calling Merkel a ‘tart’

Radio journalist Yiorgos Trangas has been fined 25,000 euros for calling Angela Merkel the ‘tart of Berlin’.

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Olympia theft worse than feared

Police said this week that 77 artefacts – more than what was initially estimated – were snatched in last week’s armed robbery at Ancient Olympia

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Nearly 700,000 euros missing from air force coffers

In what may turn out to be the biggest embezzlement case documented in the armed forces, a prosecutor is investigating the whereabouts of 683,000 euros that went missing from air f

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DEPA still committed to ITGI gas pipeline

Greece’s Public Gas Corporation (DEPA) is convinced that the Interconnector Turkey-Greece-Italy (ITGI) pipeline is the best solution for transporting Caspian Sea gas to Europe, Har

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Civil servants in firing line

Greece will begin firing civil servants from all government departments in June as it aims to meet the target it has set with its lenders, which is to reduce the number of public s

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Greece waits for Eurozone deal

Greece made to sweat over new loan agreement

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