Ex-minister offer to return Siemens cash at trial’s start
Former Transport and Communications Minister Tasos Mantelis has offered to return 230,000 euros he received from Siemens in return for a more lenient sentence in […]
The politics behind the ECB’s threat to cut Greece funding
In an article published Tuesday, Bloomberg argues that the European Central Bank is threatening to choke off funding to Greece’s lenders in the hope it […]
Documents indicate bribe paid for tanks deal
German company Rheinmetall has admitted to paying a 127-million-euro bribe to Greek officials to secure the sale of 353 Leopard 2 battle tanks in a […]
Greek PM offers to ease austerity to head off Syriza challenge
In a move likely to stun international creditors keeping debt-stricken Greece afloat, the prime minister, Antonis Samaras, has stepped up his electoral campaign with a […]
Die Welt: Greek debt “haircut” proponents, multiply
The voices in Brussels asking for a “haircut” of the Greek debt are multiplying, according to today’s Die Welt newspaper. “A haircut is inevitable, otherwise […]
Syriza to crack down on Greece’s oligarchs if it wins election
In an interview to the Financial Times, Giorgos Stathakis SYRIZAs senior economic spokesperson said the activities of the oligarchs, the 50 or so families who […]
‘The drenched man does not worry about rain’. Voters and the debt, in the days leading to the Greek general election
In the short few days since the defeat of the government’s choice for president of the republic and the subsequent announcement of general elections for […]
A back to the past future
First published in the old style Apokoronasnews.gr in November 2014 What a difference a month makes in the life of a country. In early November, […]