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Archive - 2011

August 6th

Triple crisis in Cyprus – political, economic, national

06 August 2011 / 20:08:47  
The "collapse" of Cyprus is happening slowly but surely, despite the fact that the country has low national debt, of about 60% of the Gross Domestic Product. There is, however, a large budget deficit - about 6% of GDP.


The seven major planets and our ability to feel happy

06 August 2011 / 18:08:59  
The more signs the planets in our horoscope occupy the greater chances we have of feeling happy


A retroactive tax on deposits abroad

06 August 2011 / 15:08:33  
The Greek government prepared a five-years plan for control of income concealing, it will publish the names of people with debts amounting to more than 150 000 euro


August 5th

Greek students won Microsoft’s innovation competition in New York

05 August 2011 / 18:08:29  
Vangelis Pterneas and George Karakatsiotis won the first place in Microsoft's world technological competition for students Imagine Cup with their electronic guide Touring machine.


A group rape, child molestation and an attempt for contract killing between relatives

05 August 2011 / 17:08:35  
15 people raped a 16 years-old girl in Crete, a pedophile molested his sister's grandchildren in Thessaloniki and on Rhodes a municipal employee commissioned the killing of his cousin because of a dispute for inheritance rights over a restaurant in the Old town.


Instead of decreasing the Greek deficit is increasing drastically

05 August 2011 / 13:08:45  
The "gap" between the revenue and the expenditures in the budget exceeded 14 billion 689 million euro, having in mind that the annual target of the country is 17 billion and 60 million euro deficit


August 4th

Successful start of the economic police, boom of detected crimes in July

04 August 2011 / 19:08:56  
Only within 30 hours after opening the telephone line of the economic department of the Greek police 116, citizens made complaints about fraud, most of them for not providing receipts.