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The European Financial Crisis Has Left Greek Society in Chaos

Doctors going unpaid for months. Legions of unemployed swamping benefits offices across the country and a situation in which even the employed are not receiving money. Such is the state of Greece, a society in ‘free fall’ ever since the financial crisis began. [Yahoo News]

Kostas Vaxevanis Freed, Publisher of the Lagarde List Accusing Greece’s Richest of Avoiding Taxes

Recently released from Greek prison, Kostas Vaxevanis, the infamous editor that published the ‘Lagarde List’ that named Greece’s richest who allegedly had not paid taxes, calls the Greek government nothing more than a corrupt clique ‘in the thrall of businessmen.’ [The Guardian]

27-Year Old Greek Man Arrested for Blasphemy Against Greek Orthodox Elder Paisios

A 27-year old Greek man has been arrested after accusations of blasphemy against famous Greek Orthodox Elder Paisios were leveled at him. Using a play on words to make fun of the Elder’s surname, Geron Pastitsios was a satire Facebook page made mocking the Elder by depicting his picture holding the pastitsios pasta dish. Prompted […]

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Talks to Form Greek Coalition Government Collapse – New Elections Expected as Euro Zone in Turmoil

Greek President Karolos Papoulias has announced that talks to form a coalition, technocratic government have failed and new elections are expected. Evangelos Venizelos, leader of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK), has presided over three failed coalition talks and is now instrumental in forming a caretaker government to chaperone Greece into its next round of elections. […]

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Germany Threatens to Cut Greece Off

Responding to Greek leftist coalition Syriza’s leader Alexis Tsipras’ vow to abandon the debt resettlement terms, German leaders vowed today to cut Greece off from any international monetary aid if they fail to support the debt renegotiation settlement terms. Struggling to form a government in the wake of the May 6 elections, Greece’s leadership has […]

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Greek Political Crisis Emerges as Leftist Coalition Syriza’s Leader Alexis Tsipras Vows to Reject Austerity

The fate of Greece rests in the hands of a newly elected far-left leader, Alexis Tsipras, propelled to power on a platform that Greece could no longer support her international loan agreements. The anti-austerity, leftist coalition, Syriza, emerged surprisingly strong after this past weekend’s poll, winning 16.8% of the vote. News of Greek anti-austerity measures […]

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Greek Rage at the Polls Results in Seats in the Parliament for Nationalist, Neo-Nazi Party the Golden Dawn

The start of voting in an early general election in Greece has not gone well for proponents of the European idea: After two years of austerity and financial crisis, the Greek public is turning away from the traditional conservative New Democracy party and the socialist Pasok, the two poles of Greek political life for decades. […]

The Children Left Behind by the Greek Economic Crisis.

The nation of Greece is alarmed by increasingly common stories of families abandoning their children due to poverty that stems from the economic crisis gripping the Mediterranean state. The Greek economic crisis is putting an increasingly burdensome economic strain on low-income families. The Gasparinatos family put their children up for adoption after their lives had […]

United Kingdom’s Foreign Office Warns Embassies of Potential Riots in Case of Euro Zone Collapse.

While the euro zone teeters on the brink, Britain’s bureaucrats in the Foreign Office are telling their operatives abroad about how to handle potential civil unrest in the event of the collapse of the euro. All of this is based upon events in Greece which has seen incidents of civil disorder increase following the chaos […]

Euro Bonds Are Rejected by Germany as a Solution to the Euro Zone Financial Crisis.

Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel has repeated her nation’s rejection of a common euro bond market as a solution to the financial crisis gripping the euro zone following a failed bond auction on the part of Germany to raise money for the joint effort to save the common market currency. The German focus has remained on […]