Charalambos Athanasiou
ND deputy parliament speaker says Muslim MPs could be surveilled for national security reasons
Amidst a political uproar over the National Intelligence Agency's tapping of the phone of centre-left Pasok-Kinal leader Nikos Androuakis, New Democracy MP Charalambos Athanasiou, the second deputy speaker of Parliament and a former justice minister, cited Muslim MPs of ethnic Turkish origin as an example of legitimate surveillance of an MP by Greece's National Intelligence Service for reasons
Lesvos businesses shut in protest at VAT hike
Shops, supermarkets and cafes didn't open on Lesvos on Wednesday as local businesses joined a general strike called by professional bodies on the eastern Aegean island and neighboring Limnos and Aghios Efstratios to protest government plans to raise value-added tax (VAT) from 17 to 24 percent as of January 1.
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Judges' chief dismisses 150-euro wage restoration as 'modest tips'
The head of the judges union has dismissed as modest tips the extra 150 euros per month that justices will receive over the next 36 months as part of a reinstatement of the wages they lost over the last two years.