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The overarching aim is for the finance ministry to have a comprehensive file on all types of assets so as to catch the huge number of taxpayers who currently declare extremely low incomes.

The proposed changes will also loosen the requirements for the release of prisoners serving multiple life sentences, such as the members of the notorious and now defunct N17 terrorist organisation.

One did not need the IMF’s report to understand that complacency or even worse a mindless return to the bad practices of the past could prove fatal

The growth data for the last quarter of 2018 are cause for concern, and the same appears to apply for the first quarter of 2019.

The creation of crematoriums has been discussed for decades in Greece and one of the key reasons for the delay has been the fierce opposition of the powerful Greek Orthodox Church.

The last volunteers left the premises at half past midnight, less than two hours before the fire broke out.

Polakis threatened the country’s central banker that he would stage a sit-in in his office if he did not order a probe of other loans take out by other politicians and political parties.

The artist Kostas Varotsos later expressed his outrage when the culture ministry denied that Minister Myrsini Zorba had ever made the proposal.

The IMF report said that the government should bolster its legal arsenal to allow a reduction of NPLs on private sector terms

An economy does not build endurance with triumphant declarations and self-deceptions, of the kind one has tragically witnessed in the recent past.

While the delay in disbursing the 1bn euro tranche will not impact directly on the economy it sends a strong signal to Athens about the inadvisability of unilateral fiscal moves.

Eager to open the seminary to the world and establish it as an international Orthodox and inter-religious dialogue hub, Elpidoforos stressed that English should be one of the seminary’s teaching languages.

The government exempted the Onassis Foundation and enterprises associated with it from the Special Real Estate Tax, which represents 15 percent of the tax valuation of a property.

From elected officials at the top of the administrative pyramid down to the base there is something clearly rotten in the entire structure of the state.

The murder was carried out with a shiv, a homemade knife, and the entire uproar lasted about five minutes.

Pavlopoulos also insisted that Ankara must comply with international law on a series of issues affecting its relations with Greece.

No distinguished member of the centre-left has responded positively to SYRIZA’s cunning invitation, which has fallen by the wayside.

Surveillance and precautionary roundups due to the political activity or protests of citizens are unacceptable.

'Turkey cannot become a member of the European Union, let’s make that clear,' Weber declared.

Other countries, including Portugal, borrow at a rate of about one percent whereas Greece is obliged to pay off its 10-year bond with a payment of nearly 800mn euros.