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The citizens' confidence in the state institutions should start from concrete measures for more transparent and open data, Chamber of Deputies Speaker Valeriu Zgonea declared on Tuesday in his message to the conference 'Transparency and Open Data - Anticorruption and Security' organized by the "Ovidiu Sincai" Social Democratic Institute (ISD), in a partnership with the General Secretariat of th

Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis wrote “A Speech of Hope for Greece” on Friday, the day when Greece didn’t pay its dues to the IMF. His text begins by casting the focus on US Secretary of State James F. Byrnes who traveled to Stuttgart in September 6, 1946, to deliver his historic “Speech of Hope“.

The budget deficit in April was just RSD 0.9 billion, having dropped by around RSD 18 billion compared to the same month of last year, said the Fiscal Council.

By Vangelis Mandravelis

Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis expressed his optimism on Thursday in Parliament about the completion of the privatization of the 14 regional airports for which German firm Fraport is the preferred bidder, saying that the process will soon be completed.

By Vangelis Mandravelis

Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis expressed his optimism on Thursday in Parliament about the completion of the privatization of the 14 regional airports for which German firm Fraport is the preferred bidder, saying that the process will soon be completed.

Friends and co-workers of a …49-year-old lifeguard in one of the “Athens Riviera’s” best-known beach clubs continued to express shock this week after learning that the man was arrested for clandestinely videotaping nude children and for possession of hardcore child porn.

A public auction for the 49% state-owned stake in International Fair Plovdiv AD will be announced by the end of June, according to Emil Karanikolov, Executive Director of the Privatization and Post-Privatization Control Agency (PPCA).

Doctors and nurses employed at state hospitals, as well as ambulance workers, are to walk off the job on Wednesday in an anti-austerity protest.

Unions called the 24-hour strike to protest ?the collapse? of the public health system due to austerity policies of subsequent governments.

Former Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Simeon Djankov is among the key lecturers at the Emergency Economic Summit for Greece scheduled to take place on May 19 in Athens.

The summit is organized by the US-based NGO the Atlas Network, the Cato Institute, and the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom.

A London road played host to another “host” of paparazzi who spotted US Actress Lindsay Lohan. The actress was wearing no makeup and appeared extremely tired.