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Strike begins in Greece
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Strike begins in Greece

The employees of the Greek public and private sectors will call a 24-hour strike tomorrow to protest against the reforms introduced by the government to tackle the financial crisis the country is in the grips of. The employees of all public institutions, local administrations, and the state run radio and television corporation ERT, Greek News [...]

A group of Greek students
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A group of Greek students

A group of Greek students have interrupted the state television news, as police used tear gas against another group of protesters near parliament. ’There has been an occupation at the state television channel NET and we are dealing with it,’ government spokesman Elias Mossialos said on Sunday. ‘They are students, this is not an issue related [...]

EU and Greek debt crisis
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EU and Greek debt crisis

The problems in Greece are not going away anytime soon, and Ireland and Portugal are waiting in the wings to become the focus of another round of debt relief packages from the Euro Zone. There have been recent rumblings that Italy, the Euro’s third largest economy, might also be in trouble – but those fears [...]

Bomb kills Greek minister’s aide
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Bomb kills Greek minister’s aide

A parcel bomb ripped through the Greek ministry for police and public safety, killing the minister’s personal security chief in what the government slammed as a “terrorist attack”. The explosion, which police described as “very strong,” occurred metres away from the office of the minister, Michalis Chryssohoidis, who was unharmed despite being in the building [...]

Chaos in Greece
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Chaos in Greece

Chaos in Greece getting more worst everyday; a day after major indexes posted their biggest losses in months on worries that Europe would not be able to contain Greece’s debt problems. Strict austerity measure drew thousands of protesters onto the streets of Athens, where the demonstrators tried to storm Greece’s parliament and hurled paving stones [...]