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Archive - 2011

July 8th

Greek football teams could be left without organized fans

08 July 2011 / 12:07:13  
The measures the Ministry of Culture intends to take in case the Hellenic Football Federation or UEFA attempt to hide details for the match fixing scandal include closing the clubs of football fans who are considered the main culprits of violence in Greek stadiums and possibly delay the start of the Greek Championship and the participation of Greek teams in European championships.


Tax authorities constantly "forget" to inspect the consistent income evasion

07 July 2011 / 21:07:57  
The examples the report by the Public Administration Inspector General Leandros Rakidzis speak for themselves why the budget revenues are never enough in Greece, despite the ever-increasing taxes.


July 7th

Rectors’ political marathon against the new law on higher education

07 July 2011 / 19:07:48  
After taking a stand against the new bill on higher education the Greek Universities rectors found support from both New Democracy and the Democratic Alliance of Dora Bakoyannis.


Private lendors had to reschedule the Greek debt a year ago

07 July 2011 / 16:07:53  
The problem is that most private financial institutions have already got rid of Greek government bonds from previous years and the process could turn out to be ineffective, economists say in a report by Victoria Mindova.


A website of the inexpensive establishments in Athens

07 July 2011 / 13:07:27  
After "many nights ruinous for our pockets, but extremely profitable for the restaurant owners", a company of young people around 30 years old decided to find the places with cheap drinks in Athens and present them on the Internet.


July 6th

Parties kill private initiative, even in the funeral business

06 July 2011 / 20:07:02  
One of the biggest problems for the funeral business in Greece is the lack of graveplots in the country. Another problem is that the church does not recognize the ritual of cremation, so that Greek families perform this procedure in Bulgaria.


The closed family and especially profitable profession of newspaper sellers in Greece

06 July 2011 / 18:07:46  
The turnover from the sale of newspapers and magazines in Athens, Piraeus and Thessaloniki reached 220 million euros only in 2010. 13.5 per cent of it filled the pockets of newspaper sellers. Thus, the 450 members of the union of newspaper sellers in the three major Greek cities shared 30 million euros last year.