Aristeidis Baltas

After eight years of being dragged through the courts, spending who knows how much money and having his reputation dragged through the mud, the former artistic director of what today is called Hellenic Festival SA - the company that organizes the Athens & Epidaurus Festival - was acquitted of all charges of financial mismanagement by an Athens court of appeals this week.

As a graduate of a state school, former PM and Radical Left Coalition (SYRIZA) leader Alexis Tsipras was successful in life and later wrote articles praising the state system and critical of the pseudo-elite systems to blame for the collapse of the Greek economy.

The planned 23% VAT hike to private educational institutions will reportedly be extended to include private schools sending rates exploding. A reportage in daily newspaper, Ethnos, states that parents who send their children to private schools will need to dig their hands deep into their pockets paying an additional 1,500 to 2,000 euros in tuition fees per annum.