Greece seeks German know-how to tackle tax evasion
AFP — Greek and German authorities agreed Saturday to step up their cooperation on tax evasion, with information supplied by Germany already being used to […]
Month: January 2016
Fantasia’s unexpected visit to Souda ‘part of planned change of itinerary’
Cruise ship Fantasia with 4000 passengers, mostly US citizens, and a crew of several hundred on board traveling from Haifa to Heraklion made an unscheduled […]
EU relocates just 0.17% of pledged target in four months
The Guardian — European countries have relocatedjust 0.17% of the asylum seekers they promised to welcome four months ago, it has emerged, in a revelation […]
Political talks on Greek debt to begin after first bailout review is done
WSJ — Greece’s creditors are expected to start talking soon over an issue that has been looming over the eurozone since 2010: cutting the country’s […]
Ciao Italia! Germany’s other migrant influx
BBC – More than a million refugees and migrants from war-torn regions of the Middle East and Africa came to Germany in 2015. It was […]
Eurogroup drag their feet over Greek programme evaluation
Irish Times – As the European Union embarks on another year expected to be dominated by the refugee crisis and the threat of Brexit, a […]
Seven House staff lose jobs over fake qualifications
eKathimerini — Seven more parliamentary employees were removed from their positions on Friday after an investigation revealed that they had either used forged qualifications to […]
Suited lawyers rally against Greek pension reform
AP — Several thousand lawyers, many wearing ties or high heels, marched to parliament Thursday to protest a planned overhaul of the pension system by […]
Greece on flu alert – five deaths this month
Five people have died and another 35 are in intensive-care after contracting flu over the past few weeks, according to the Hellenic Center for Disease […]
Bavarian councilor sends refugee bus to Berlin
AP — A bus carrying 31 Syrian refugees is on the way from southern Germany to Berlin, as a Bavarian district councilor followed up on […]
Athens accepts IMF role but lender continues to call for substantial debt relief
The Telegraph — Greece has backed down over having the International Monetary Fund involved its new bail-out deal, after months of tension between Athens and […]
Greece: a European tragedy
Bruegel.org /Ashoka Mody — From 2009 to 2015, the Greek government’s primary deficit (deficit not counting interest payments) declined from 10 percent of GDP to […]
EU launches probe into new Polish laws
BBC — The European Commission has opened an unprecedented inquiry into whether new Polish laws break EU democracy rules. Vice-President Frans Timmermans announced a “preliminary […]
Greek olive oil gains the recognition it deserves. But …
Greece is.com — Slowly but surely, thanks to the great efforts of passionate people to overcome numerous obstacles, Greek olive oil is at last getting […]
As refugee exodus to Greece continues, some take Bulgarian route
EurActive — More than 1,000 refugees arrived at Greece’s biggest port of Piraeus near Athens yesterday (13 January) as the influx of refugees fleeing conflict zones […]