Editorial To Vima: Irrational law, inhuman punishment
It is time for the state to wake up and adjust the antiquated and leveling law to contemporary realities, and for the judiciary to impose punishment that is analogous to the crime.
It is time for the state to wake up and adjust the antiquated and leveling law to contemporary realities, and for the judiciary to impose punishment that is analogous to the crime.

The poll indicates that New Democracy may be able to form a single-party government if it manages to garner at least 35 percent of the popular vote.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras boasted about his government’s social welfare achievements – including averting pension cuts – and blasted New Democracy’s alleged lack of social sensitivity

The finance ministry believes that the large cash reserves even under the most conservative assessment are sufficient to cover its mixed funding needs at least for the next two years.

The distribution of hundreds of millions of euros in handouts is depriving the Public Investment Programme of funding.
One must note that although the European Commission approved the budget, at the same time it made known its concerns about delays in implementing reforms.
The projections for 2019 point to a general government surplus of 3.98 percent, as compared to the 3.5 percent target.
Kammenos had been convicted twice regarding the CDS profits charges, once in 2013 in a lawsuit filed by ex-PM George Papandreou’s brother Antrikos, and the other in 2014 in a lawsuit filed by IJ Partners.
Athens Polytechnic and Columbia University will for the first time collaborate on the undergraduate level in order to grant joint degrees.
The government’s celebrations over the exit from the bailout memorandum may be useful for domestic consumption, but they have not persuaded investors, and those who had the daring to invest are running away.
Gavroglou exuded an air of optimism regarding implementation of the deal, and said that there is time to iron out differences and implement the accord before the next general election.
The shopowner and another man were seen on a video viewed all around the country kicking Costopoulos in the head as he tried to emerge from the bottom window of the store’s façade.
'Visas for unaccompanied minors points to organ trade, and hence I have no burden on my conscience, as I know that I contributed to saving a few souls,' said the ex-foreign minister.
As was evidence by yesterday’s meeting between Gennimata and Simitis, the amoral attack against the former PM resulted in the entire centre-left party rallying to support him.
What most who are today are demanding back their lost income forget is that the group that has been hit hardest is private sector employees (especially youths, who receive starvation salaries), and not pensioners and civil servants.
Asked if Greek-Turkish relations have improved or deteriorated,52 percent said they have deteriorated, 44 percent said that they have not changed, and only two percent saw an improvement.
Centeno said that the lending “institutions” trust Greece as regards continued implementation of reforms and meeting commitments in the coming years, so as to become a success story.
A parliamentary committee investigating possible scandals in the state’s procurement of medicines and vaccines has recommended a further judicial probe of the case.
The prosecutor who ordered the opening of Costas Simitis' bank accounts herself has said that she acts independently of other state services.
Acts of violence do not honour those killed during the Polytechnic uprising. Instead, they besmirch and desecrate an anniversary that should be an occasion for a democratic rallying cry.
The Greek corporate scandal that was brought to light by the American Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in Piraeus’ Akti Miaouli – Dimitris Melissanidis’ “leap” from Piraeus to the Emirate of Fujairah in the Arabian Peninsula – produced direct charges of embezzlement of $300mn by the Ernst and Young auditing committee. US Ambassador to Athens Geoffrey Pyatt cooperated with the investigation - Meanwhile, Spyros Fokas, the General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Aegean, who has been removed but faces heavy charges, has stayed on as First Vice-President of OPAP, Greece’s leading gaming company
How did happen that Antonis Papadimitriou was able to “ostracise” everyone, and to now act as the great and sole manager of the huge estate of Aristotle Onassis, bargaining with Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to secure his dominance in the fields of health, education, and letters and culture. It is unheard of not to have a member of the Onassis family in the Foundation that bears his name.
Emeritus Professor of Engineering and member of the Academy of Athens Theodosis Tasios in Ta Nea underlines that one cannot rule out the collapse of one of the many bridges in the country’s road network.
“In any event, the salary status of those who serve the Church constitutes the responsibility and decisions of the State,” the PM's office said.
Instead of dividing and destabilising Europe, as those who pushed Brexit believed, the UK itself fell into the trap.
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