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Greece's NBG to sell stake in Finansbank in April
Finansbank, 99.8 percent of which is owned by National Bank of Greece (NBG), has announced its intention to launch an offering of its ordinary shares listed on Turkey?s main stock exchange, Borsa Istanbul.
In a statement to Public Disclosure Platform (KAP) on March 11, Finansbank said the offering is expected to be completed in early April, subject to market conditions.
EP Legal Affairs Committee in favor of stripping New Democracy MEP Zagorakis of immunity
The European Parliament's Committee on Legal Affairs unanimously decided to strip New Democracy MEP Theodoros Zagorakis of his parliamentary immunity, following a request forwarded by the Deputy Public Prosecutor at the Supreme Court of Greece on 19 December 2014 and announced in plenary on January 28, 2015.
Technical level talks start in Brussels, foreign reps expected in Athens Thursday
Representatives of the government and the country?s international creditors are expected to launch ?technical level? talks in Brussels on Wednesday at 3 p.m. Greek time, amid reports that technical teams from the European Commission, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund ? formerly known as the ?troika? ? will visit Athens on Thursday.
Skouries Goldmine workers protest over lost jobs (photos + videos)
150 protestors held banners outside the Energy Ministry in Athens to demonstrate against the 50 dismissals of employees who lost their jobs from the Skouries Mine in Chalkidiki, Northern Greece, on February 27. The employees of Hellas Gold SA were angered by the government's decision to recall the permit for a processing plant at Skouries.
Ride aboard the Nazi death train on Sunday (photos)
The first train from Greece to Auschwitz Concentration Camp left Greece with 2,800 Jews on board on March 15, 1943. It was a one-way journey for the passengers on the steam engine, LV 964, that day. To commemorate the event 72 years owards, the train will return to the old station of Thessaloniki at 11.30 a.m. on March 15.
Athens threatens to seize German assets over WWII reparations
Justice Minister Nikos Paraskevopoulos has said he is ready to sign an older court ruling that will enable the foreclosure of German assets in Greece in order to compensate the relatives of victims of Nazi crimes during the Second World War.
Greece's Supreme Court ruled in favor of Distomo survivors in 2000, but the decision has not been enforced.
Stratoulis says Greece is not a 'protectorate,' attacks 'obsessive' Schaeuble
A leftist minister on Wednesday slammed Germany's ?obsessive? Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble for allegedly treating Greece as a ?protectorate? state.
The comments by Social Security Minister Dimitris Stratoulis were prompted by speculation that Berlin had put pressure on Athens to replace its Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis.