Bank deposit seizures skyrocket
eKathimerini — The number of orders received by banks to seize deposits belonging to customers with outstanding debts to the state has skyrocketed to an […]
Month: April 2016
Eurogroup will not meet Thursday – Greek PM seeks leaders summit
Bloomberg — Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will seek a meeting of euro-area leaders to resolve disagreements between the government and creditors, a move echoing […]
Greece sends third group of migrants back to Turkey under EU deal as protests flare at Lesbos camp
Japanese Times — Ferries carrying a total of 49 migrants from the Greek islands of Kos, Chios and Lesbos reached the Turkish port towns of […]
Tsipras faces new IMF curve ball to unlock aid: Scenarios
Bloomberg — Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has promised voters he’ll reject even one euro cent more of budget austerity than is needed under the […]
OPAP to pay 75 mln euros in extra taxes this year- CEO
Reuters — Greece’s biggest betting company OPAP, will pay an extra 70 million to 75 million euros in tax this year under new laws on […]
Schaeuble says still working on Greek bailout review
Reuters — German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said on Monday it was still unclear whether international lenders and Greece would meet this week to discuss […]
“Paleochora is too good to rush, just like local fish.”
stuff.co.nz — “My brother Giorgos and I grew up learning about fish,” says Giannis Lougiakis, showing me his kitchen at the seafront restaurant the brothers […]
The Idomeni grandmother who helps Syrians on a monthly pension
BBC — The name Idomeni has become known around the world for being the unwanted home to more than 10,000 people, most from Syria and […]
The botanist who recorded Greek flora
eKathimerini — John Sibthorp was only 24 when he was appointed Sherardian Professor of Botany at the University of Oxford at the end of the […]
Germany seeking ‘safe zones’ in Syria to shelter refugees
Reuters — Germany is seeking the creation of “safe zones” to shelter refugees in Syria, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Saturday, an idea Turkey has […]
Schaeuble sees no Greece debt relief as long as debt sustainable
bloomberg — German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said Greece doesn’t need debt relief now and won’t require an easing of its debt burden as long […]
Varoufakis’s assessment of what’s wrong with the Eurozone shouldn’t be dismissed
Varoufakis’s critiques of Europe’s troubled monetary union and the questionable efforts to salvage it shouldn’t be dismissed, writes the Canadian current affairs magazine Macleans . […]
18 road deaths in Crete since the beginning of 2016
Another death of a young man on Crete’s roads last Tuesday brought the numbers for road deaths in Crete in April to seven. The number […]
Lenders ask Greece to prepare contingency package of extra austerity measures
Reuters — International lenders asked Greece on Friday to prepare a package of additional savings measures which would be passed into law now but implemented […]
Migrant flows from Turkey to Greece pick up again
The Mail — Hundreds of migrants are flocking into Europe through the Greek islands as they make a mockery of the EU’s 6 billion euro deal […]