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Archive - Dec 2010

December 29th

Up to 40% turnover drop of insurance companies in 2010

29 December 2010 / 13:12:56  
Some of the reasons for the insurance sector volume decrease this year are the higher costs as extraordinary taxation of profitable businesses and snowballing withdrawal of life insurances.


We are society in which changes occur overnight and the media are our mirror image

29 December 2010 / 12:12:20  
Huge drop in circulation of newspapers, lack of control of broadcasting and commercial market shrinking are the reasons for the crisis in the Greek media.


December 28th

Greek readers rely on economic literature

28 December 2010 / 19:12:11  
In severe crisis times when reduced salaries and high prices and taxes empty the thin wallets of the Greeks even small pleasures are increasingly being left aside. Could be the book placed among these things that are being bought with difficulty?


Factory for generals under a law from the age of ... the junta

28 December 2010 / 14:12:25  
Promotional procedures with the speed of lighting in the Greek army in order the military to receive high allowances to their salaries from the mutual military fund which carries to the state ... 50 million euros loss a year


Maria Callas did not kill herself from grief for Onassis, a rare disease cost her career and life

28 December 2010 / 13:12:05  
A study held by the University of Bologna is about to completely change the attitude towards the world-famous soprano Maria Callas. It reveals that she was suffering from a rare disease of vocal cords rather than the proverbial whims of opera divas.


Refugees blocked the street and attempted to burn themselves to death in response to the police action against their tent camp

28 December 2010 / 09:12:19  
The operation of the Greek police for the removal of Afghanian, Iranian and Palestine refugees, who had built a tent camp about three months ago requesting political asylum in Greece, continued from early morning until late afternoon.


December 27th

Protests of transport companies continue, thousands of civil servants expect to be transferred to other departments

27 December 2010 / 18:12:46  
Buses will run intermittently on Wednesday 29 December, as well as on January 3, 5 and 10. It is unclear yet whether the employees of the other public transport companies will strike but it seems that they will not work at the same time.