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  • Greek Premier visits Heydar Aliyev Center

    The page of the Heydar Aliyev Center on Instagram has published photos of Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras in the Heydar Aliyev Center and Heydar Aliyev Museum created here. "It is a great honor for me to visit this grandiose museum and to get familiar with merits of the great statesman for his nation which is friendly to us," Greek Premier wrote in a memory ...

  • Financial Police has taken on over 5000 cases since 2011 says minister

    The Financial Police, set up in July 2011, has handled more than 5,000 cases until now, Public Order Minister Nikos Dendias told Parliament on Monday.The Financial Police also handles electronic crime, including matters relating to child pornography, Dendias assured MPs who were concerned that such issues were being overlooked since the electronic crimes department was shut down.He said that the ...

  • Greeces New Orders Index in Industry down by 12.7 in March

    The New Orders Index in Industry in March 2013 fell by 12.7 percent compared to a year earlier, the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT) said on ...

  • Lower rate will hamper rooftop photovoltaics say installers

    The practice of installing photovoltaic panels on rooftops will be severely damaged by the ...

  • Greek Owners Order 142 Newbuilds in China

    Greek shipowners have ordered 142 newbuildings at Chinese yards recently according to the country's Shipping Minister Kostis Mousouroulis. Official Chinese news agency Xinhua reported Mousouroulis as saying that the orders were placed in April and accounted for 60% of newbuilding contracts by Greek owners worldwide. The Minister was speaking in Beijing on Saturday towards the end of an ...


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Brand Upon the Brain! [DVD]

Brand Upon the Brain! [DVD]

It has been said that, in order to fully get any one of Spanish cult director Jess Francos films, you need to have seen all of them, and I suspect the same is also true of Canadian cult director Guy Maddin. Fully getting Franco is a tall order given that he has directed n ... ...

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  • Greek economy in dire need of reforms

    Greece is in need of radical reforms to its pension system if it is to cease being a burden on longer-term fiscal sustainability, and to prevent a rise in pension costs that would otherwise see these accounting for more than 20 per cent of GDP by 2050, warns the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). In ...

  • Quick resigns as parliamentary spokesman for Independent Greeks

    Former TV presenter Terence Quick has resigned as parliamentary spokesman for the Independent Greeks.In a letter to Panos Kammenos, the leader of the nationalist party, Quick said that he would remain as a lawmaker. He did not cite specific reasons for his decision.Quick, who has been involved in Greek television since the 1970s, joined the party in early 2012, when Kammenos founded the ...

  • Gazproms Miller returns to Athens for third time as gas sell-off hots up

    Gazprom CEO Alexey Miller is due back in Athens on Monday, his third visit to Greece since March, as the gas giant steps up its interest in the Greek privatization process.Gazprom is one of the suitors for the Public Gas Corporation (DEPA) and Miller visited Greece twice in March to discuss the matter.He met Prime Minister Antonis Saamras and Development Minister Costis Hatzidakis during his ...

  • Supreme Court appoints two new financial prosecutors

    The Supreme Court named two judicial officials on Monday to replace outgoing financial prosecutors Spyros Mouzakitis and Grigoris Peponis.Panayiotis Athanasiou, who has in the past investigated the Siemens cash-for-contracts scandal, will become the main financial prosecutor.Galinos Bris, who has been involved in probing former Defense Minister Akis Tsochatzopoulos, will be ...

  • Submission of online tax returns to begin this week

    Greeks will be able to begin filing their income tax returns online later this week, the Finance Ministry said on Monday.The ministry has completed technical changes to the Taxis Net system to allow for some changes to the details that need to be submitted this year.Taxpayers, for instance, will have to include any interest earned on savings in their returns this ...

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