Weekend deadline for Greece after negotiations draw blank
The Guardian — Greece’s creditors have set the country a weekend deadline to avoid default and stay in the eurozone, after more than 24 hours […]
Month: June 2015
Pharmaceutical Developmental Institute of Greece: Drug companies engineer shortages
ANA – MPA — Big multinational pharmaceutical companies are engineering artificial shortages of drugs in Greece by arbitrarily adopting “ceilings” for drugs sold per pharmacy […]
Apokoronas to develop diving centre
Mayor Koukianakis is going ahead with his plans to create a diving centre and sea park in Apokoronas to develop special interest tourism in the […]
Europe is destroying Greece’s economy for no reason at all
Washington Post — History repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce, and finally as trolling. That, at least, appears to be the case in […]
Support for Drachma grows in Greece
(Reuters) — In a traditional cafe in a working-class neighbourhood of Athens, 55-year-old musician Stelios Maragakis said he has the solution to Greece’s debt crisis: […]
Seamen’s union warn of strike action 30 June
Greece’s passenger ferry service is expected to be disrupted on Tuesday, June 30, as the Pan-Hellenic Seamen’s Federation (PNO) has announced a 24-hour strike. Among […]
The Guardian: Creditors’ economic plan for Greece is illiterate and doomed to fail
The troika plan for the Greek economy has already failed twice, and it will fail for a third time if the economically illiterate plan being […]
Lagarde: Greek proposal ‘inadequate’ -Tsipras summoned to Brussels for more talks
(The Guardian) — In advance of the third meeting of eurozone finance ministers in less than a week, Tsipras was summoned to the office of […]
ECB gives breathing space to Greek banks following new proposals
(Reuters) — The European Central Bank increased its funding lifeline to Greece’s banks again on Tuesday, sources with direct knowledge of the decision said, allowing […]
Greece accepts principle of extending current bailout
(AFP) — Greece has accepted the principle of extending its current bailout programme which expires at the end of the month so as to keep […]
Stathakis: Greece rescued
(BBC) –In an exclusive BBC interview, to be broadcast tonight, Greece’s economy minister Giorgos Stathakis said that he believes Greece’s new proposals to balance the […]
FT: Greek society’s financial plight reopening old wounds that had healed over the generations
(Financial Times – Affluent Greeks fret as they teeter on the edge – Henry Foy) — On a recent evening at the Semiramis hotel in […]
Greece’s proposals good basis for progress, says EU
(The Guardian, Reuters, enikos.gr) — In the coming hours, the most powerful politicians and officials in Europe will hold a series of emergency meetings that […]
Chania second best in Greece for quality of life
According to the 2015 annual Quality of Life survey , Kos and Chania are the towns that top the quality of life index in Greece, […]
Greece most popular last minute destination
Greece tops the league of last minute holiday destinations with Zakynthos marking an increase of 115 % on last year’s bookings and Crete second with […]