Greece sacks heads of privatisation agency
Greece’s new leftwing government has asked the heads of the state privatisation agency to resign after halting state asset sales agreed under the international bailout […]
Month: January 2015
‘We won’t cooperate with the troika,’ FinMin says after meeting Dijsselbloem
Greece rejects both an extension of the bailout programme and any talks with the troika of its creditors, Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis said on Friday. […]
Government with a British flavour
It could easily have been a scene from one of this week’s post-election victory rallies in Greece, as supporters of the victorious Syriza party cheered, […]
Greece has no plans to act against all-inclusive resorts
Greece’s tourism minister promised on Thursday Athens had no plans to curb all-inclusive resorts on its sun-drenched islands, after several publications suggested that new Prime […]
The Economist: Syriza’s win could lead to Grexit, but it should lead to a better future for the euro
Go ahead, Angela, make my day IT WAS in Greece that the infernal euro crisis began just over five years ago. So it is classically […]
First Social Supermarket – Food bank in Apokoronas is now open
The first of the two planned food banks has officially opened in Nippos old school on Tuesday 27/1. Present in the opening ceremony were the […]
The Guardian: Germany can’t be allowed to strangle Syriza at birth.
Merkel, the EU bureaucrats and international financiers are cruel but not stupid. They know hope is a contagion, and will do all they can to […]
Chania without New Democracy for the first time in 25 years
Chania voters turned their back on New Democracy which was squeezed out of the four seats returned from Chania, with SYRIZA winning three and the […]
Germany warns over debt commitments
Germany has warned the new Greek government that it must live up to its commitments to its creditors. German government spokesman Steffan Seibert said it […]
SYRIZA sweeps to power in rebellion against austerity
Greek voters handed power SYRIZA in national elections on Sunday, a popular rebellion against the bitter economic medicine Greece has swallowed for five years and […]
SYRIZA strikes deal with ANEL for coalition government
After midnight local time, with more than 98% of the ballots counted, Syriza had 36.3% of the vote, trouncing the incumbent New Democracy party, with […]
Apokoronas welfare group gets a big helping hand from European volunteers
Apokoronas Welfare association held a meeting with volunteers from the European community on wednesday 21/1 at Vryses town hall. The volunteers were keen to help […]
Water supply improvement work starts in Apokoronas
Apokronas council has approved a programme of works to improve the supply of drinking water, a project long awaited for by many residents. The work […]
New Democracy will do ‘whatever it takes’ to prevent SYRIZA win, says minister
Greek opposition parties on Monday slammed outgoing health minister and New Democracy candidate Makis Voridis after he said his party would do “whatever it takes” […]
EU to fund research for use of liquid natural gas by Greek ferries
The European Commission will pay about 600,000 euros to fund a study aiming to promote the use of LNG by ferries covering Greek island routes […]