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Saturday, January 26, 2013

Austerity Shrinks Greek Spending 10.6%


Austerity Shrinks Greek Spending 10.6%
Greek Reporter
Continuing austerity measures took 4 billion euros ($5.38 billion) out of the pockets of Greeks in the last year, shrinking their disposable income by 10.6 percent – and it looks likely to become even worse with more pay cuts, tax hikes and slashed ...

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Immigrants Stuck In Greece Seek EU Funds To Go Home


Immigrants Stuck In Greece Seek EU Funds To Go Home
WWNO
For years, most undocumented immigrants have been entering the European Union through land and sea borders with Greece. They intend to settle in richer countries, but strict border controls and a broken asylum system means they end up stuck in Greece.

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Illegal Fuel Trade Moves to Ships


Greek Reporter

Illegal Fuel Trade Moves to Ships
Greek Reporter
A leveling of Greece's special consumption tax on diesel with that of heating oil hasn't stopped illegal fuel trading and government officials are now concerned that's moving to the shipping industry as well and are planning steps to stop it. Finance ...

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Fake Greek Products Overrun Foreign Markets


Greek Reporter

Fake Greek Products Overrun Foreign Markets
Greek Reporter
Fake-Greek-Products Shady businessmen and companies produce thousands of fake Greek products in China, the UK and the US causing tremendous financial losses to Greek exporters and domestic economy, reported the Panhellenic Exporters ...


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Greek Riot Police Drive Strikers From Subway


Aljazeera.com

Greek Riot Police Drive Strikers From Subway
Wall Street Journal
ATHENS—Greek riot police on Friday stormed a train depot in Athens occupied by striking subway workers as part of a government emergency order to force employees back to work. The strikers, as well as those working in the city's tram and urban-rail ...
Greek subway strike ends after arrest threatsAljazeera.com
Greek subway staff end strike after police raidDenver Post
Greek Metro workers to continue strike despite police actionThe Hindu
Businessweek -The Independent
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Greece opposition leader calls for debt write-off


Greek Reporter

Greece opposition leader calls for debt write-off
MiamiHerald.com
NEW YORK -- The leader of Greece's leftist opposition, Alexis Tsipras, is calling for an agreement to wipe out some of the government debt that Greece and other countries in Europe are struggling to repay. Tsipras, considered a likely candidate to ...
Greek Opposition Leader Seeks Conference on DebtNew York Times
Greece's Tsipras Seeks to Reassure U.S.4-traders
Mr. Tsipras Comes to WashingtonBrookings Institution (blog)
Greek Reporter
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Friday, January 25, 2013

Greece Opposition Leader Calls for European Debt Renegotiation Summit


Greek Reporter

Greece Opposition Leader Calls for European Debt Renegotiation Summit
New York Times
The 38-year-old leftist opposition leader in Greece, who could become its next prime minister on a wave of simmering popular fury over the Greek government's austerity measures, called on Friday for a European summit to ease the crushing debts that ...
Greece's Tsipras Seeks to Reassure U.S.4-traders
Mr. Tsipras Comes to WashingtonBrookings Institution (blog)
Visiting NY, Tsipras Calls For EU Debt SummitGreek Reporter
World Socialist Web Site
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