Government of Greece

Stathakis puts forward ideas on energy firm privatizations

The representatives of Greece's creditors returned to Athens on Monday for the start of the fourth bailout review and had their first meeting with Energy Minister Giorgos Stathakis and Finance Ministry officials. The aim of the creditors and the government is to have the review wrapped up by May, and for the deal on the Greek debt to be completed by June.

ND wants preliminary inquiry into Kouroublis, Xanthos and Polakis

Greece's conservative opposition was to submit on Tuesday a proposal for the formation of an investigative committee to conduct a preliminary inquiry into whether former health ministers Panagiotis Kouroublis and Andreas Xanthos, as well as alternate Health Minister Pavlos Polakis, are guilty of breaches of faith.

Another three ministers - one current, two former - requested rent subsidies, Skai reports

Another three members of the SYRIZA-led government requested state rent subsidies, Skai has reported following the resignation of Alternate Social Solidarity Minister Rania Antonopoulou in a benefit row and that of her husband, Economy Minister Dimitris Papadimitriou.

The Novartis case and SYRIZA's institutional primitivism

More telling about the leftist-led government's treatment of its political rivals and society than the snickers of Greece's alternate health minister, the bad-mannered Pavlos Polakis, was the parliamentary address of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras last Wednesday: Not only did Tsipras choose to ignore the fact that Greece's pharmaceutical spending was drastically reduced after 2010 thanks to the

Journalist arrested following legal suit lodged by ex-PM

Journalist Costas Vaxevanis was arrested on Monday following a legal suit lodged against him by former conservative prime minister Antonis Samaras for defamation.

Shortly before his arrest, an appeals court in Athens had exonerated him over another defamation suit against him brought by Lina Nikolopoulou, the wife of Bank of Greece Governor Yannis Stournaras.

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