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Senate of the University of Athens announces its resignation

November 19, 2013November 19, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency Greece

Members of the senate of the University of Athens announced on Monday afternoon their resignations, making impossible the further operation

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Greek government contemplates tough action against striking university staff

November 19, 2013November 19, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency Greece

Further tension built up over university action in Greece on Monday. Higher education administrative employees have been on strike for

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Greek government hoping to bridge difference with troika within week

November 18, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency Greece

Greek Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras will meet with troika officials in Athens Monday as inspection of the country’s adjustment effort

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China’s COSCO invests 230M euro in Piraeus Port

November 13, 2013November 13, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency Greece

The Piraeus Port Authority and COSCO Holdings Group Co Ltd have completed an agreement to expand the Chinese company’s container

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Greek government survives censure motion

November 11, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency Greece

Greece’s coalition government survived a censure motion brought by main-opposition SYRIZA. The government emerged from the vote of no confidence

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SYRIZA submits censure motion against government coalition over ERT eviction

November 8, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency Greece

Riot police evicted employees of former public broadcaster ERT from the network’s headquarters in Athens that had occupied the building

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Greek, Portuguese workers stage new protests against austerity

November 6, 2013 VOANews Greece

Workers in Greece and Portugal staged new protests Wednesday against austerity measures that are cutting their wages. A Greek general

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Glimmer of hope for Greek recovery

November 6, 2013November 6, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency Greece

Greek finance minister Yannis Stournaras met with the troika inspectors in Athens on November 5 2013 in what was the

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General strike in Greece on November 6 disrupts air travel, public transport

November 6, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Greece

A 24-hour general strike in Greece on November 6, organised by the country’s two largest trade unions in protest against

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