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Trains and ferries were cancelled and hospital staff walked off the job in Greece as workers marked May Day with a strike against harsh austerity measures.
Greece's justice ministry has ordered an audit of subsidies passing through offshore firms suspecting possible fraud, according to a report.
Greece's central bank says the country's main four lenders will be recapitalised separately, a move that put on hold a planned merger between two of them.
EU-IMF auditors have met with Greece's finance minister to hammer out a report that is required to release a €2.8bn rescue loan that has been delayed since March.
Tens of thousands of travellers were stranded across Greece as seamen and train conductors called a 24-hour strike to protest austerity measures.
Greece's central bank governor says the country's four largest lenders will be given until the end of May to complete a major recapitalisation programme.
Greece's ailing economy contracted by 5.7% in the fourth quarter of 2012 in an annual comparison, provisional data from the state statistics agency showed.
Sweden's state-funded employment agency has launched a campaign encouraging unemployed youths to look for summer jobs in crisis-stricken Mediterranean countries.
The prospects of a country being forced to leave the 17-state bloc have all but vanished since the middle of last year, a survey shows.
Fresh worries plague Spain's finances as the EU warned of missed deficit targets after giving 11 countries the green light on taxes for financial transactions.
A minister says Greece has narrowed its budget deficit to 8.1% in 2012, marking a rare improvement over targets pledged to its EU-IMF creditors.
Greece's jobless rate has climbed to a record 26.8% in October and almost tripled since September 2009 as the country remains sunk in recession.
Prices of SA's largest bullion producers plummeted after Greece said it would buy back bonds worth €10bn to check its ballooning debt.
Greece says it will buy back bonds through a Dutch auction as part of efforts to cut its ballooning debt.
Greece will unveil details of a bond buy-back crucial to efforts by foreign lenders to trim the country's ballooning debt.
