The Greek Orthodox Church holds a major share of the National Bank of Greece's stocks. It has hundreds of estates in some of the most beautiful areas of the country and is tax exempt - a privilege not a single average Greek or enterprise enjoys.

Women, protagonists in his photographs, are turned into fetishes, a symbol of the author’s unbridled imagination mixed with indomitable passion.

A large number of bank branches in Greece closed on Wednesday after employees in the banking system announced a 24-hour strike. They are protesingt against the merger of their health insurance fund with the National Organization for Health Care Provision.

The problem is the politicians themselves, who seem to be completely unable to understand the crisis of their legitimacy. I think this crisis and its resolving are the "key" to dealing with the economic crisis, the expert in Balkan and Greek history thinks.

The president of the Hellenic Federation of Enterprises Dimitris Daskalopoulos stated that he was extremely disappointed with how the rescue programme for Greece was being carried out.

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Fotis Kouvelis and members of Democratic Left refuse to vote on the measures associated with the changes in labour law while PASOK leader Evangelos Venizelos wants the problem with the changes in the labour market to be excluded from the negotiations and to be decided at the highest European level.