Marousi

Members of anti-authoritarian groups assaulted George Germenis, an MP of extreme right party Golden Dawn, Saturday in Marousi, in the north of Athens. According to eyewitness accounts, Germenis was physically attacked by a group 30 individuals at a cafeteria at 1.20pm, who started punching and kicking him after using pepper spray against him.

The state's 5 percent stake in OTE telecom is to be transferred from the Finance Ministry to state sell-off fund TAIPED as early as on Friday.

The only matter that remains outstanding is the decision of the ministerial committee for restructuring and privatizations for the transfer of those 24,507,520 shares.

"There's no more just sitting around drinking coffee. The new trend is for parents to work out and put their kids in classes. One mom will draw in another. OAKA offers so many different activities that you're to sure find the best fit for you," says Sarah Karali from Harry's Gym.

Greek lawmakers agreed on Tuesday to remove Parliament's right to veto any change in a shareholders' agreement controlling telecoms group OTE, paving the way for the state's sale of a 5 percent stake worth some 200 million euros.

OTE is 40 percent-owned and managed by Deutsche Telekom, with the state holding a 10 percent stake.

Workers at Greece's largest telecoms group OTE oppose a government plan to sell a minority stake in the firm, fearing the state will lose control of a strategically important company.

Greece has agreed to a privatization scheme aimed at raising 14 billion euros in proceeds by 2022, including the sale of a stake in OTE.

Athens-listed telecom Forthnet on Thursday won the tender of the Hellenic Telecommunications and Post Commission (EETT) to be Greece's universal service provider, for a maximum amount of 4.93 million euros per year payable by the state.

This means that the company is undertaking to supply fixed telephony local network access and voice call services in 100 percent of the country.

Deutsche Telekom is considering options including thousands of job cuts at its German business, a review of its holdings in eastern Europe and Greece and a partial sale of its subsidiary T-Systems, German daily Handelsblatt reported.

Greece's biggest telecoms operator OTE reported a 16 percent drop in first-quarter net profit on Wednesday, as bailout measures hit demand for its mobile services, and said it saw more challenges this year.

The Consumer Protection Commission (KZP) prohibited the practices of two Bulgarian telecommunication companies to refuse to their subscribers the option of terminating their contracts.

The practice of one of the telecoms is to refuse the termination of contracts unless the customer submits a request in the same office where the contract was signed.

Some USD 5.5 B will be generated by 10 000 working in Bulgaria's information and communications technology (ICT) industry, a recent forecast suggests.