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Archive - 2015

March 18th

The European Commission for the first time threatens Greece with Grexit

18 March 2015 / 15:03:42  
The representatives of the International Monetary Fund argue that Greece is the most non-cooperating state in the 70-year history of the Fund, defining the behaviour of Athens to its official lenders as unacceptable.


March 17th

Mass procession bid farewell to the boy, victim of school bullying

17 March 2015 / 20:03:34  
Relatives, friends and thousands of people escorted on his last journey 20-year-old Vangelis Yakoumakis, a student at the Ioannina dairy industry school, whose tragic death shocked all of Greece. The procession was held in the village of Seli, 17 km from the town of Rethymno, Crete, today at noon.


Brussels insists on results from the technical inspections in Athens

17 March 2015 / 19:03:33  
According to the representatives of the lenders, the hole in the Greek state funds amounts to 2.5 billion euro and they insist on the government taking emergency measures to fill it.


The confrontation between Europe and Greece bothers even Washington

17 March 2015 / 14:03:11  
The White House and the US Treasury believe that the impasse in the negotiations is dangerous for the world economy and they have urged all parties to participate in the negotiations in good faith in order to solve the problems.


March 16th

Drachma entails coupons for food, fuel and medicines

16 March 2015 / 19:03:34  
In an extensive interview for the American magazine Jacobin*, SYRIZA MP Costas Lapavitsas, known as the "economic mind" behind the logic to return to the drachma, reveals the economic plan of the left wing in the ruling party, which openly supports such a solution.


Germany resents an obscene gesture by Varoufakis

16 March 2015 / 16:03:08  
The Greek Minister of Finance firmly denies having made a similar gesture and defines the video as edited.


Greece cannot stay in the euro zone and break the agreement with the lenders

16 March 2015 / 13:03:00  
Ensuring the liquidity of Greek banks implies a shift in the Bulgarian banking sector too, economist Georgi Angelov states in an interview for GRReporter.