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Workers launch new wave of strikes

Taxi drivers, tax collectors, are up in arms.

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Project Helios solution for Greek economy

Greece looks towards solar energy to get them out of financial trouble.

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Piraeus Bank resorts to BoG funding

Piraeus Bank was forced to make use of emergency funding from the Bank of Greece after running out of eligible collateral that allowed it to access cheaper European Central Bank fu

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Retail trade down 11.4 per cent

The volume of retail trade in Greece fell 11.4 per cent in June against the same month in 2010.

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Escape tunnel at Greek prison

Officials at Greece’s largest prison say they have prevented an escape by discovering a 10-metre-long tunnel dug by an alleged murderer and two other inmates awaiting trial.

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Record tourist numbers this year

The number of foreign visitors to Greece is expected to reach an unprecedented 16.5 million this year.

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Cypriot investment in Greece on the slide

Cypriot investment in Greece is on the decline, and not just in regard to direct investments, but also to repatriated profits from subsidiaries of Greek companies on Cyprus.

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Monastery to be moved uphill

A 12th century monastery in the northern prefecture of Grevena, which is to be literally carried to the top of a hill to make way for an artificial lake, was on Monday shuffled abo

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Kyrkos, exit stage left

“We don’t seem to have a political class that understands, on any level, what it’s like to face unemployment,” veteran left-wing film director Ken Loach told The Guardian newspaper

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Turkey gives up seized property

Erdogan tells Patriarch authorities will return assests taken from minorities.

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