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Archive - 2010

December 2nd

Students protest against changes in higher education

02 December 2010 / 11:12:44  
Students protested on Omonia Square against the new draft law on education and again demanded free education for all. Students rebelled against the new expected increases in the bus tickets prices and the elimination of their student cards for cheap traveling.


Two people a day are infected with HIV in Greece

02 December 2010 / 10:12:49  
Official statistics claims that more than 10,000 are infected, but experts believe the number is about 25,000, there are still taboos and prejudices in Greek society against those infected with the deadly virus, Anastasia Balezdrova reports.


December 1st

Businesses demand entrepreneurship without barriers

01 December 2010 / 18:12:12  
After analyzing the problems and obstacles to entrepreneurship in Greece, the Union of Industrialists handed a list of 30 most pressing problems in the local economy to Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis. The question is whether they will be taken into account.


The annual turnover of the informal economy in Greece is 59 billion euros

01 December 2010 / 10:12:51  
Economists are adamant that the fight against tax fraud and debt collection of taxes should become a government priority. Budget revenues will increase and the deficit will be reduced substantially more quickly and efficiently.


November 30th

Sailors strike ended but they got nothing for their pains

30 November 2010 / 18:11:09  
Passenger ships set off of all ports in Greece early in the morning after the sailors strike ended and they got back to work. Their trade union decided today at 6 am to put an end to the eight-day strike after the government decided yesterday to hand out summonses to all passenger fleet protesting employees which occupied the ships. Some of the sailors tore the summons, while others kept them, they said from the Panhellenic Seamen Federation.


Illegal immigration to the European Union decreases

30 November 2010 / 16:11:53  
91 per cent of illegal border crossings of the EU outer borders occur in Greece but the trend is downward.


Greek managers are among the best paid in the world

30 November 2010 / 13:11:47  
According to data of Towers Watson survey, the estimated average income of CEOs in the private sector in Greece is around € 237,000 per year, this volume ranking the country among the first five of best-paid managers in the world.