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Hikes and freezes in civil service
Athens :: Greece | 3 days ago
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The country�s public servants, estimated to number around 880,000 workers, who earn below 2,000 euros per month will get a pay hike in line with inflation. European Commission estimates see Greece�s consumer price inflation picking up slightly next year...
Tags: public servants, Greece, Athens, Inflation, Public finance, Deficit, Economic policy, Business Finance, Social Issues
Piraeus Bank sees profit drop
Athens :: Greece | 3 days ago
Credibility The lender said yesterday net profits reached 219 million euros, beating analysts� estimates for a figure of around 197 million euros. �Positive signs of a recovery in the global economy are progressively strengthening while the international financial...
Tags: million euros, Piraeus Bank, net profits, Greece, Athens, Mortgage, Mortgage loan, Loan, Subprime crisis impact timeline, Banking, Credit, Finance, Business Finance, Bank, Debt
C/A deficit narrows in September
Athens :: Greece | 3 days ago
Credibility The current account gap contracted by 25.3 percent or 6.2 billion euros in the first nine months of the year to 18.3 billion, about 7.32 percent of gross domestic product, data showed. The services balance showed travel spending by nonresidents was down...
Tags: current account, account gap, deficit narrowed, billion euros, Greece, Athens, Euro, Balance of trade, Business Finance
WHAT'S ON
Athens :: Greece | 3 days ago
Credibility Japan Week will open at the Athens Concert Hall on Sunday, with a lecture by distinguished architect Kengo Kuma as well as a concert by the Tokyo Ensemble. Events will run to November 28. Athens Concert Hall, 1 Kokkali & Vas.
Tags: Greece, Athens, Melodramas, Ariadne, Kolonaki, Alain Badiou, Operas, Tourism in Greece, Ariadne auf Naxos, Entertainment Culture, Naxos Island, Bacchus, Ariane in Naxos
WHAT'S ON
Thessaloníki :: Greece | 3 days ago
Credibility This is your last chance to catch Yiannis Skoulas�s exhibition with photographs from Norway and Greece at the Agathi Gallery, which will end tonight. Athens - Opens Tonight �Stop Care,� an exhibition of photographs from director Nikos Koundouros�s film...
Tags: Athens, Nikos Koundouros, Greece, Thessaloníki
More work and less time on TV
Athens :: Greece | 3 days ago
Credibility A small proportion of George Papandreou�s Cabinet seems to have forgotten that the task of governance is best exercised from ministry offices rather than morning television shows. Patients trying to get treatment at the country�s hospitals are justifiably...
The anonymous players of ND
Athens :: Greece | 3 days ago
Credibility New Democracy�s defeat in the October 4 polls was the strongest condemnation ever of the way the party has exercised government policy. But, a �government� is not an abstract concept or body; it is a group of personalities, public personalities who for...
Tags: ND New Democracy, anonymous players, Greece, Athens, Greek Orthodox Christians, Costas Simitis, George Papandreou, New Democracy, Evangelos Venizelos, Elections in Greece, Panhellenic Socialist Movement, Socialist International, Politics
NTUA anger over charges
Athens :: Greece | 3 days ago
Credibility Constantinos Moutzouros over the institution�s failure to stop its computer terminals being used to update the website of the Athens branch of the anti-capitalist news network Indymedia...This week, a prosecutor took action against the university because...
Tags: NTUA, Indymedia, Greece, Athens, Technology Internet, National Technical University of Athens, Independent Media Center, OTE, Law Crime
Terror suspect points to case flaws
Athens :: Greece | 3 days ago
Credibility It was revealed in court that Antigone Helioti-Hatzidimitriou was arrested after a candleholder at a house in Halandri, which allegedly served as a bomb-making factory for four other suspects that were arrested in September, was found to have the 22-year-old�s...
Tags: Costas Papadakis, Greece, Athens, Criminal law, Arrest, Fingerprint, Law Crime, War Conflict
Bill tweaked to protect forests
Athens :: Greece | 3 days ago
Credibility The key changes to the bill, heralded by Environment, Energy and Climate Change Minister Tina Birbili last month, are the inclusion of any areas of burned forestland in the national land register within a month of the blaze and the inclusion of the area...
Tags: draft law, Greece, Athens, Environment
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