Panagiotis Nikoloudis

VAT on food in Greece will be reduced from 24% to 13%, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said. The energy tax will also be halved, with 13% going to become 6, the Prime Minister promised.

Money for tax cuts will be taken from overcharging tax collection, which is 1.14 billion euros.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras visited a Greek school in New York’s Astoria district on Thursday and talked to the students, telling them that they have to be proud of Greece not just for its past but also for its present. In its current handling of the refugee and migrant crisis, Tsipras noted, Greece was showing the humane face of Europe.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras held meetings with the heads of several Greek-American organizations in a reception held in New York.

Tsipras said that Greeks of the Diaspora were the best ambassadors of Hellenism in the US, “a country which plays a very important role in the world and in all the important decisions that concern the future of our country.”

Political developments in Greece ahead of next month’s snap election – the third time voters will head to the ballot box in 2015! – turned surreal over the weekend, with one top SYRIZA MP threatening to commit … suicide, while former leftist comrades continued their “civil war” over the airwaves.

Parliament President called the Investigating Committee on Debt as one "for the truth and accountability to the Greek people and to society" in her opening speech during the procedure for the establishment of the committee at noon on Saturday.

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Greece's new anti-corruption minister is not a politician, but he is in tune with the new crusading mood.

International attention on Greece since the SYRIZA party took over has focused on the leftist government's fight against an austerity package imposed from abroad.

The strengthening of the Financial Crimes Squad (SDOE) will lead to Greece immediately collecting 2.5 billion euros from tax evaders, State Minister for Combating Corruption Panayiotis Nikoloudis said Tuesday.