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  • A bronze statue of emperor Alexander the Great.
    Two caught with artifacts
    9 Mar 2010 (0)

    Greek police arrested two men last week for trying to sell several artifacts, including a bronze sculpture of emperor Alexander the Great from the 4th century B.C., for which the asking price was 7

  • Manolis Glezos, 88, is stopped by riot police outside the Greek Parliament.
    "We will become their crisis"
    9 Mar 2010 (0)

    Downtown Athens was paralysed once again on Friday when thousands of Greeks took to the streets to protest against the country’s newly announced package of austerity measures.

  • Third round of new austerity measures bite hard
    4 Mar 2010 (0)

    The Papandreou government has announced a thid round of austerity measures which are designed to meet European Union demands for savings.

  • ND leader launches attack on Greek PM
    3 Mar 2010 (0)

    Main opposition New Democracy (ND) party leader Antonis Samaras launched a strong attack on Greek Prime Minister George Papandrou on Tuesday evening in response to the Prime Minister's earlier addr

  • Papandreou. Further austerity measures.
    Greek PM: tough measures to be taken on economy
    3 Mar 2010 (0)

    Prime Minister George Papandreou, addressing his PASOK party's Parliamentary Group on Tuesday, announced the taking of tough but necessary measures for the salvation of the economy and the country.

  • George Papapandrou. Matthew Nimetz
    Nimetz sees ‘solution’
    28 Feb 2010 (0)

    United Nations special envoy Matthew Nimetz said Friday that progress is being made on finding a basis on which Greece and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) can work to solve their

  • Greeks protest. Offensive cover.
    Greek anger at German reports
    28 Feb 2010 (0)

    Greek Parliament Speaker Filippos Petsalnikos has condemned German press reports on Greece’s financial crisis that he said “surpassed all limits” and invited Germany’s ambassador to Greece, Wolfgan

  • Aegean. Olympic. Merger.
    Olympic Air and rival Aegean agree to merge
    28 Feb 2010 (0)

    Greece’s two largest airlines, Olympic Air and rival Aegean, have announced that they have agreed to join forces in a bid to survive the country’s economic downturn and increased competition in the

  • Parliamentary probe. The economy.
    Parliament probes economy for answers
    28 Feb 2010 (0)

    The Papandreou government proposal to set up of a Parliamentary fact-finding committee into the economy was approved last week despite the strong opposition from main Opposition party, New Democrac

  • Smoking bans. Greece.
    Blanket ban on smoking for Greece
    28 Feb 2010 (0)

    The possibility of smoking being banned in all public places is an option being seriously considered by the Greek Health Ministry, as officials held talks with workers’ unions with a view to overha

  • Greece. General strike.
    Nationwide strike paralyzes Greece
    25 Feb 2010 (0)

    A nationwide strike called by public and private sector unions in Greece over the austerity program introduced by the Papandreou Government saw police clash with demonstrators on the sidelines of t

  • Olympic Air, Aegean agree to merge
    24 Feb 2010 (0)

    Greece's two largest airlines, Olympic Air and rival Aegean, have announced that they have agreed to join forces in a bid to survive the country's economic downturn and increased competition in the

  • PM briefed on progress of Stability-Growth Program
    24 Feb 2010 (0)

    Prime Minister George Papandreou on Tuesday was briefed by Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou on the progress made in implementing the Greek government's now closely watched Stability and Gro

  • PM: Greece asking for political support
    22 Feb 2010 (0)

    Greece is asking for political support and time to implement its Stability and Growth Program and prove that it is once again trustworthy, prime minister George Papandreou said in an interview with

  • Police shootout. Vyronas.
    Worker dies in police raid
    22 Feb 2010 (0)

    A 25-year-old plumber was killed last week in the eastern Athens district of Vyronas after getting caught in a shoot-out between two criminal suspects and police officers.

  • Reforestation. Attiki.
    Reforestation on the cards
    22 Feb 2010 (0)

    The Environment Ministry last week heralded an ambitious scheme to reforest some 10,000 hectares of burnt forestland on the outskirts of Attiki.

  • Unroadworthy cars. Missing tests.
    One in three cars has missed road safety test
    22 Feb 2010 (0)

    Roughly one-third of all cars on Greek roads have not passed a roadworthiness test (KTEO) in the last three years, according to figures made public last week by the owners of private KTEO centres.<

  • Papandreou. Putin. Moscow.
    George Papandreou and Vladimir Putin meet in Moscow
    19 Feb 2010 (0)

    Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin expressed their desire to further develop strategic relations between their two countries following their meeting in

  • Year of the Tiger. Athens.
    Chinese celebrate the Year of the Tiger in Athens
    19 Feb 2010 (0)

    Kotzia square in the centre of Athens, just opposite the Athens City Hall, was turned into a small "Chinese corner" on Sunday, as the Chinese community in Greece, joined by thousands of Greeks, cel

  • Greece: 30-day deadline to get it right
    19 Feb 2010 (0)

    European Union finance ministers last week gave Greece a month to prove that it is able to get its public finances back on track, as Athens insisted it is up to the job and will not need to take an

  • Papandreou. Allocates responsibilities.
    Papandreou attacks EU and New Democracy for debt crisis
    16 Feb 2010 (0)

    A day after the European Union (EU) provided Greece with political support in its bid to rescue its public finances, George Papandreou accused Brussels of being “timid,” lacking coordination and of

  • Citizenship rights. Protests.
    PM calls for citizenship rights
    16 Feb 2010 (0)

    Prime Minister George Papandreou last week put up an impassioned defense of his government’s bid to grant second-generation immigrants citizenship, presenting a vision of a country inhabited by Gre

  • The Internet poses risks to young users
    16 Feb 2010 (0)

    Greek parents are more likely than their counterparts in Denmark or Sweden to supervise their children surfing the Internet but are less aware of the online risks threatening youngsters, a European

  • Rise in Greek pension age.
    Major pension reforms unveiled
    16 Feb 2010 (0)

    The government last week unveiled a package of changes to the country’s pension system aimed at ensuring the system’s viability in the coming decades.

  • Carnival. Patras.
    Greek Carnival season in full swing
    16 Feb 2010 (0)

    The Carnival season is in full swing throughout Greece, with revelries lasting to February 14, the eve of the Clean Monday holiday that marks the beginning of the 40-day Great Lent leading to Ortho

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