The company workers went on strike from the 3rd of April demanding the appointment of new staff for the new units at the refinery in Thessaloniki and their salaries and benefits to be kept.

The banks in Europe are in panic, mainly because their portfolios are full of toxic derivatives from the private sector and government bonds of countries from the periphery of the Euro zone, which are actually useless, states Yanis Varoufakis, Professor of Economic Theory at the Athens University.

Eight months have passed since the introduction of another ban on smoking in public places in Greece. The country was supposed to say goodbye to cigarette smoke a year earlier, on the 1st of July, 2009, but despite the law the Greeks did abandon the bad habit.

A Greek research associate argues that radioactive waste in Kozloduy NPP is not handled in the safest possible way.

Wikileaks: the drama is that Germany has been steadily tightening the belt of its national economy over the past 10 years, while Greece has been paying the 14th salary.

The efforts to counteract the crisis in Libya are focused on finding a political solution. At the same time, Islamic groups, including al-Qaida are trying to push the view that air raids on Libya are nothing more than "modern crusades."

The story of Georgios Stroumboulis proves that no crisis means a deadlock and that the difficulties inspire rather than break the brave and ambitious. Here is his view on the Greek real estate market and its opportunities.