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Archive - 2010

March 18th

"The Polish plumber" already in Greece

18 March 2010 / 12:03:44  
Greece frees and eases the access of foreigners to the closed professions. According to a bill which yesterday was introduced in Parliament the engineers, advertising agents and tourist guides who are citizens of other European countries would be able to work freely in Greece.


The insurance companies are not grillrooms

18 March 2010 / 07:03:57  
The government has to take responsibility and take care of the compensation of insurance contracts, requested the people affected by the bankruptcy of Aspida Pronia and Commercial Value at the protest demonstration in front of the Ministry of Finance.


Greece spends billions of euro for faulty military submarines

18 March 2010 / 06:03:37  
17 million euro costs to the country the maintenance of the non functioning shipyard Skaramanga since the beginning of November 2009 until present. Unfortunately this amount seems to be a drop in the see of the irreversibly lost almost three billion euro which the Greek government has paid to the German company ThyssenKrupp for faulty submarines.


Gogo Mastrokosta defeated breast cancer

17 March 2010 / 22:03:37  
Gogo Mastrokosta received the title Woman of the year 2009 at the Life&Style magazine awards for the courage she showed not only for fighting the cancer, but for coming out publicly and telling her story. Gogo turns to all the women from all ages to take care of themselves and never underestimate the importance of the regular examinations and the mammography.


March 17th

“They placed me at the traffic lights, they blackmailed me and I can show you their house, so that you can catch them”

17 March 2010 / 12:03:40  
A 53 years old man and his 39 years old wife are wanted by the Thessaloniki police because they have driven against his will a 60 years old disabled person from Sofia to Thessaloniki. There they forced him to beg and they ware beating him up and taking his money.


Restrictions in the electricity supply due to the 48 hours strike

17 March 2010 / 12:03:20  
19 power stations pulled the circuit break and the production of electricity decreased by 39%.


March 16th

Over 65 thousands of small and medium enterprises will go bankrupt by 2012

16 March 2010 / 18:03:46  
Particularly worrying is the increasing percentage of businesses, sole traders and professions who have difficulty to cover their obligations to social security funds. Expectations for 2010 are that 40% of all small and medium enterprises will be able to cover pension and health contributions of its employees.