Athens Informer

The City of Athens will today inaugurate seven centers created to provide assistance and services to residents of the municipality. Modeled along the lines of Citizens Advice Bureaus (KEPs), which deal with state matters, the new advice points will… Full News here – Kathimerini English

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Intralot SA, the Greek developer of online lottery and gaming systems, is meeting investors for its first bond sale since 2006 as it offers to buy back notes maturing at the end of this year. The company’s Intralot Finance Luxembourg SA unit is… Full News here – Kathimerini English

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Six burning issues remain on the negotiations table in talks between the Finance Ministry and the representatives of the country’s creditors, which will have to be concluded by tomorrow evening ahead of Minister Yannis Stournaras’s departure for… Full News here – Kathimerini English

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The representatives of Greece’s international creditors and the state privatization fund (TAIPED) yesterday agreed that the country will not be able to make the 2.6-billion-euro target for revenues from privatizations this year, although they stopped… Full News here – Kathimerini English

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Representatives of the National Confederation of Greek Commerce (ESEE) yesterday asked Tourism Minister Olga Kefaloyianni for legislation to be passed allowing stores at the country’s summer and winter tourism resorts to open for business on any given… Full News here – Kathimerini English

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Nicos C. Alivizatosis professor of constitutional law at the University of Athens. One would expect that a discussion with him about his latest book (“What Democracy for Greece After the Crisis?” – in Greek – published by Polis) would focus on very… Full News here – Kathimerini English

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A foreign national was being treated for serious injuries in an Athens hospital after falling from the fifth floor of an Aghios Panteleimonas building on Sunday. According to police reports, the man had been involved in a scuffle with a fellow resident… Full News here – Kathimerini English

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Police launched a massive manhunt yesterday after a 37-year-old officer was killed near the village of Distomo in the prefecture of Viotia when gunmen, believed to be Albanian fugitives from Trikala Prison, opened fire on police manning a road… Full News here – Kathimerini English

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A magnitude 5.6 earthquake struck at 12.39 p.m. on Sunday off the island of Crete, southern Greece, but there were no reports of damage or injuries. The Athens Institute of Geodynamics reported the quake’s location at about 50 kilometers off the south… Full News here – Kathimerini English

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The Health Ministry has less than a month to find ways to plug a funding gap of around 1.2 billion euros in the budget of the country’s biggest healthcare provider, EOPYY, following a meeting between representatives of the country’s creditors and… Full News here – Kathimerini English

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International media interest and coverage of Greek current affairs have shown no sign of abating since the country entered an extended period of economic crisis in 2010. According to figures released by the General Secretariat of Information and… Full News here – Kathimerini English

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Two opinion polls published over the weekend indicate that the majority of Greeks oppose the closure of ERT. A Kapa Research survey for Sunday’s To Vima newspaper suggests that 64.4 percent of Greeks regard the decision to shut down the public… Full News here – Kathimerini English

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During Ottoman rule, the Kurdish element acted as a shield against Iran’s Shiites on the eastern border. Kurds rallied around Mustafa Kemal Ataturk against Greek forces in Asia Minor, though their “services” went unrecognized by the Kemalists once they… Full News here – Kathimerini English

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An Astra Airlines passenger plane went off the runway at Thessaloniki’s Macedonia Airport on Saturday but there were no injuries. The airplane, which was arriving following a flight from Russia, overshot the runway. It was not clear what had caused… Full News here – Kathimerini English

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Greek students owe about 4.3 million pounds sterling in unpaid loans provided to study at British universities, Kathimerini understands. EU students are eligible for loans to cover living costs and tuition fees which they are required to start paying… Full News here – Kathimerini English

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