The Eurogroup approved on Monday the release of Greece’s two next bailout installments, totaling 7.5 billion euros, but was told that it would have to complete certain structural reforms before the second tranche is released in June.
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Are you alive and happen to live in Greece? You will be taxed even if your income is zero for the sole reason that you are alive
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The Greek government is set to issue civil mobilization orders to secondary school teachers who have called a strike which will disrupt university entrance exams. Teachers that refuse to work face arrest.
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The extreme-right party has announced to organize a food handout for “Greeks only” in front of the Parliament three days before the Orthodox Easter. On Wednesday evening, Athens Mayor Giorgos Kaminis issued a statement describing the event as “hate meals” and refused to give them permission.
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Foreign Minister says government willing to ‘exhaust every means available’
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During a meeting on Friday with Development and Transport Minister Costis Hatzidakis, France’s junior minister for transport and the maritime economy, Frederic Cuvillier, said that French companies were taking a keen interest in the current wave of Greek privatizations.
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Greece is deliberating whether Germany still owes war reparations stemming from the Nazi occupation in World War II. Despite German reservations, some claims just might be justified. But will they ever come?
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At least twenty-eight strawberry field workers from Bangladesh were transferred to hospital with light injuries on Wednesday afternoon after being shot by the foremen of their employer. The incident occurred at 6 p.m. Wednesday on the 41st kilometer of the highway between Patras and Pyrgos in Peloponnese.
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Last year, an estimated 10 percent of Greek elementary- and middle-school students suffered from what public health professionals call “food insecurity,” meaning they faced hunger or the risk of it, said Dr. Athena Linos, a professor at the University of Athens Medical School who also heads a food assistance program at Prolepsis, a nongovernmental public health group that has studied the situation. “When it comes to food insecurity, Greece has now fallen to the level of some African countries,” she said.
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Authorities say a police station has been attacked in a village in northern Greece where frequent protests have broken out against plans to develop a gold mine in the area by a Canadian mining company.
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