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Firings protest leads to sit-in at City Hall
School guards, cleaning staff and teachers who were placed in a labor pool and are now due to lose their jobs took over City Hall in Athens on Tuesday to protest their plight ahead of a 48-hour strike called by civil servants union ADEDY due to start on Wednesday.
Greek PM: Extension of sites' hours ‘should have happened decades ago’
Greeces main museums and archaeological sites will remain open seven days a week, from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., during the summer, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras confirmed on Tuesday.
Greek doctors, nurses to strike for second day on Wednesday
Doctors and nurses at Greek state hospitals are to walk off the job for the second day in a row on Wednesday in protest at government plans to put thousands of civil servants in a so-called mobility scheme of forced transfers and layoffs.
State hospitals will operate on skeleton staffs.
Greek court questions where would be best for ‘Maria’
A court in Larissa, central Greece, on Tuesday questioned the Bulgarian Embassys second secretary, Lubomir Georgiev, about what conditions a young girl known as Maria who was found at a Roma camp in Farsala last year would be brought up in if she were taken to Bulgaria.
Thessaloniki priest charged with fraud set to defend himself
A 30-year-old priest from Thessaloniki who is alleged to have swindled tens of thousands of euros from 166 unsuspecting Greeks by promising them jobs that never materialized is to defend himself against fraud charges on Thursday before an investigating magistrate.
Greek prosecutor charges 6 with fraud over IKA scam
An Athens prosecutor on Tuesday brought fraud charges against a doctor working for the Social Security Foundation (IKA), four pharmacists and the representative of an unnamed pharmaceutical firm who are alleged to have caused IKA to suffer losses of more than 100,000 by forging prescriptions for expensive medicines.
Pastor expects talks with Vucic in midweek
SUBOTICA – Leader of the Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians (SVM) Istvan Pastor said Tuesday that he expects to begin talks about a possible participation of the SVM in Serbia’s new government with the leader of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), Aleksandar Vucic, in the middle of the week.
The platform for the talks will be the SVM’s election program, he said.
Stankovic congratulates Albanian community
BELGRADE - Zoran Stankovic, chairman of the Coordination Body for the Municipalities of Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja, congratulated on Tuesday the Albanian national minority and the Party for Democratic Action led by Riza Halimi on their electoral success, underlining that voting in elections is the right way to improve the life of people in southern Serbia.
Davenport: Very good and encouraging news
BELGRADE - Head of the EU Delegation to Serbia Michael Davenport said Tuesday that the arrest of drug lord Darko Saric is very good and encouraging news and a major step forward in the effective fight against organized crime.
Putin: Crimean leadership follow "Kosovo precedent"
MOSCOW - Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that the Crimean leadership declared independence based on the “well-known Kosovo precedent”, which was created by the western countries themselves.
Francophone Film Festival opens in Athens
Louis Garrel and Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi star in the latter's 'Un Chateau en Italie.'
Brussels welcomes Saric's arrest
BRUSSELS - The European Commission (EC) welcomes the arrest of Darko Saric, and expects an efficient trial in line with the European standards, it was released in Brussels on Tuesday.
Economic activity rises at beginning of 2014
BELGRADE - Economic activity rose at the beginning of this year and total industrial production grew by 3.8 percent in January compared to the same month last year, the editor of Belgrade-based Makroekonomske analize i trendovi (MAT) magazine Vladimir Vuckovic said on Tuesday.
Greece to keep main museums and sites open 7 days a week
Tourists will be able to visit Greeces most famous heritage sites seven days a week starting in April, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said today.