Survey and Analysis of Results Download Survey in PDF Analysis by Dimitris Rapidis (@rapidis)a. Assessment of the Government PolicyThe big majority of the respondents (77%) is not satisfied with the performance of the Greek government so far., while more than 4/5 believes that SYRIZA abandoned the "Thessaloniki Program", the anti-austerity and pro-...

Built to foster friendship, the euro is manufacturing misery insteadUNRAVELLING the tangled logic of Greece’s bail-out talks, Charlemagne has learned, is a little like trying to explain the rules of cricket to an American. How to make sense of a process in which Greek voters loudly spurn a euro-zone bail-out offer in a referendum, only to watch Ale...

Head of French farmers' union says his members believe a €600 million government aid package and deal to raise milk prices does not go far enoughBy David Chazan in ParisAll last week, residents and holiday-makers faced chaos as French farmers blocked motorways with tractors, closed off tourist sites and unleashed pigs in supermarkets.Now...

Two people have been injured after trees and cabanas surrounding an outdoor pool at a hotel on the Las Vegas strip caught fire.Firefighters battle the blaze in the outside pool area of the Cosmopolitan Las Vegas hotel-casino (AP)The two injured in the blaze at the Cosmopolitan Hotel suffered smoke inhalation, and at least one was transpor...

The trilateral  meeting between German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Francois Hollande and European Commission President Jean Claude Juncker in Berlin on Monday are expected to be crucial for the  achievement of an agreement  within the following  days. 183 members of the European Parliament  and MPs from 13 Eu...

The third worker injured at the 8th of May explosion in Hellenic Petroleum (ELPE), 27 year old Antonis Avrambo, finally passed away today.  Panagiotis Lafazanis Minister of Productive Reconstruction, Environment and Energy and Apostolos Alexopoulos, Secretary General of Energy & Raw Materials, stressed the need for a thorough and uncomprom...

Former Prime Minister Antonis Samaras in an interview to the Sunday edition of “ETHNOS” implied that his party is open to a collaboration with SYRIZA, as long as the latter’s obsessions are abandoned. “In case no deal is achieved the Greek authorities will be unable to pay the full installment for June to the IMF”, an internal document of the Fund...

Subversive leaks to specific media against the governmental policy, presenting Greece as a country on the verge of bankruptcy, from the office of the Governor of Bank of Greece were published by the Editors’ Newspaper. Consequently  several SYRIZA party members asked for the resignation of the  Governor of the Bank, Yannis Stournaras. The...