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Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Greece will support Turkey's 2020 Olympic bid


SwimmingWorldMagazine.com

Greece will support Turkey's 2020 Olympic bid
The Standard Digital News
Istanbul's bid for the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics has received a significant boost after Greece pledged its full support to Turkey in its efforts to secure the Games. The two countries have had an acrimonious relationship for almost two centuries ...
Legacy of the Olympic Movement: Greece Pledges Supports for Istanbul 2020 BidSwimmingWorldMagazine.com
Turkey and Greece sign cooperation for OlympicsBalkans.com Business News
Olympics 2020 : Istanbul bid boosted by historic agreement with GreecePakistan Daily Times

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House Hunting in ... Greece


New York Times

House Hunting in ... Greece
New York Times
“Maybe the whitest possible marble you can extract in Greece,” said Theo Bosdas, the managing director of Engel & Völkers Athens North, who has the listing. A hallway from the foyer leads to a large open room with a dining area and two seating areas ...


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Greek police to investigate Golden Dawn threat to turn immigrants “into soap”


Kathimerini

Greek police to investigate Golden Dawn threat to turn immigrants “into soap”
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
ATHENS, Greece (JTA) -- Greek police are investigating the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party after some of its members were filmed threatening to turn immigrants “into soap” and put them in “ovens.” The investigation announced Wednesday was prompted by ...
Golden Dawn film: Greek police probe neo-Nazi hate speechChannel 4 News
Greek police probe neo-Nazi hate speechThe Australian
UK TV Shows Golden Dawn HatredGreek Reporter
Kathimerini
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Greece confident aid tranche to be paid, denies talks deadlocked


euronews

Greece confident aid tranche to be paid, denies talks deadlocked
Reuters UK
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece is confident of getting an aid tranche due this month, its finance minister said on Wednesday, dismissing speculation that talks with foreign lenders on cutting its bloated public sector were deadlocked. The European Union and ...
Greece Will Weed Out Misfit WorkersGreek Reporter
Troika heads confer with FinMin, to see PM on ThursdayCapital.gr (press release)

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Greece charges three ex-ministers over income declarations


Greece charges three ex-ministers over income declarations
Reuters
Among them is Yannos Papantoniou, a prominent Socialist politician who was finance minister when Greece joined the euro in 2001. He faces misdemeanor charges for failing to disclose in 2008 that his wife had 2.2 million euros in deposits in a Swiss ...

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Olive Oil Shortage Empties Wallets Worldwide

A global olive oil shortage looms as the effects of last year's drought, which affected Spain and areas in Southern Europe, begin to hit the...

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Greece Is Hardly An Emerging Market


Greece Is Hardly An Emerging Market
Seeking Alpha
Russell Indexes recently reclassified Greece from a developed to an emerging market. Despite the label, Greece (GREK) is hardly emerging and will likely continue to regress for the years to come. The only thing the country has in common with other more ...


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Greek natural gas firm's profit falls 44 percent in 2012


Kathimerini

Greek natural gas firm's profit falls 44 percent in 2012
Kathimerini
Greek natural gas distributor DEPA, due to be privatised this year, posted a 44 percent drop in annual profit due to a slide in demand and a one-off charge to settle disputes with its biggest client, according to preliminary figures. DEPA, which is 65 ...

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Today's Recipe from Our Files: Greek-style Vegetable and Pasta Soup


Today's Recipe from Our Files: Greek-style Vegetable and Pasta Soup
NOLA.com
Today's Recipe from Our Files: Greek-style Vegetable and Pasta Soup. Judy Walker, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune By Judy Walker, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune The Times-Picayune on March 06, 2013 at 9:56 AM, updated March 06, 2013 at 9:57 AM ...


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Inside an abandoned leper colony: Haunting pictures show where disease sufferers were locked up on Greek island

The colony on Chios, called Lovokomeio, opened in 1378 as the first leper colony in Greece and one of the first in all of Europe.

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Greek February Economic Sentiment Rose for Third Month in Four


Greek February Economic Sentiment Rose for Third Month in Four
Bloomberg
Greek economic sentiment improved in February for a third time in four months as the country continued to receive funding under bailouts from the European Union and the International Monetary Fund. An index measuring short-term economic trends stood at ...
Greek Economic Sentiment Returns to Two-Year HighWall Street Journal

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Greek researcher creates new food product


Kathimerini

Greek researcher creates new food product
Kathimerini
Success stories from Greek academia are few and far between at the best of times, and more so in the midst of the crisis, which has taken a heavy toll on university research and innovation programs. Dimitris Kouretas, a professor of biochemistry and ...


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Citizens in Europe are rejecting austerity policies as deeply misguided | Joseph Stiglitz

The eurozone needs reform, but devaluation, lower output and rising debt across the continent are nothing but a toxic brew

The outcome of the Italian elections should send a clear message to Europe's leaders: the austerity policies that they have pursued are being rejected by voters.

The European project, as idealistic as it was, was always a top-down endeavour. But it is another matter altogether to encourage technocrats to run countries, seemingly circumventing democratic processes, and foist upon them policies that lead to widespread public misery.

While Europe's leaders shy away from the word, the reality is that much of the EU is in depression.

The loss of output in Italy since the beginning of the crisis is as great as it was in the 1930s. The youth unemployment rate in Greece now exceeds 60%, and the figure for Spain is above 50%.

With the destruction of human capital, Europe's social fabric is tearing, and its future is being thrown into jeopardy.

The economy's doctors say that the patient must stay the course. Political leaders who suggest otherwise are labelled populists. The reality, though, is that the cure is not working, and there is no hope that it will – that is, without being worse than the disease.

It will take 10 years or more to recover the losses incurred in this austerity process.

It is neither populism nor shortsightedness that has led citizens to reject the policies imposed upon them. Rather, it is an understanding that these policies are deeply misguided.

Europe's talents and resources – its physical, human, and natural capital – are the same today as they were before the crisis began. The problem is that the prescriptions imposed are leading to massive under-utilisation of these resources. Whatever Europe's problem, a response that entails waste on this scale cannot be the solution.

The simplistic diagnosis of Europe's woes – that the crisis countries were living beyond their means – is, at least partly, wrong. Spain and Ireland had fiscal surpluses and low debt/GDP ratios before the crisis. If Greece were the only problem, Europe could have handled it easily.

An alternative set of well-discussed policies could work. Europe needs greater fiscal federalism, not just centralised oversight of national budgets.

Europe might not need the two-to-one ratio of federal to state spending found in the US; but it clearly needs far more European-level expenditure, unlike the miniscule EU budget (whittled down further by austerity advocates).

A banking union, too, is needed. But it needs to be a real union, with common deposit insurance and common resolution procedures, as well as common supervision. There will also have to be eurobonds, or an equivalent instrument.

European leaders recognise that, without growth, debt burdens will continue to grow, and that austerity by itself is an anti-growth strategy.

Yet years have gone by and no growth strategy is on the table – though its components are well known, being policies that address Europe's internal imbalances and Germany's huge external surplus, which now is on par with China's (and more than twice as high relative to GDP).

That means wage increases in Germany, and industrial policies that promote exports and productivity in Europe's peripheral economies.

What will not work, at least for most eurozone countries, is internal devaluation – that is, forcing down wages and prices – as this would increase the debt burden for households, firms, and governments (which overwhelmingly hold euro-denominated debts).

And, with adjustments in different sectors occurring at different speeds, deflation would fuel massive distortions in the economy.

If internal devaluation were the solution, the gold standard would not have been a problem in the Great Depression. Internal devaluation, combined with austerity and the single-market principle (which facilitates capital flight and the haemorrhaging of banking systems), is a toxic combination.

The European project was, and is, a great political idea. It has the potential to promote prosperity and peace. But, rather than enhancing solidarity within Europe, it is sowing seeds of discord within and between countries.

Europe's leaders repeatedly vow to do everything necessary to save the euro. The promise of Mario Draghi, president of the European Central Bank, to do "whatever it takes" has succeeded in creating temporary calm.

But Germany has consistently rejected every policy that would provide a long-term solution.

Of course, the Germans have reluctantly come to accept the necessity of a banking union that includes common deposit insurance. But the pace with which the country accedes to such reforms is out of kilter with the markets. Banking systems in several countries are already on life support. How many more will be in intensive care before a banking union becomes a reality?

Europe needs structural reform, as austerity advocates insist. But it is structural reform of the eurozone's institutional arrangements, not reforms within individual countries, that will have the greatest impact. Unless Europe is willing to make those reforms, it may have to let the euro die to save itself.

The EU's economic and monetary union was a means to an end, not an end in itself. The European electorate seems to have recognised that, under current arrangements, the euro is undermining the very purposes for which it was supposedly created. That is the simple truth that Europe's leaders have yet to grasp.

Copyright: Project Syndicate, 2013


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Thomas Cook to cut 2,500 jobs in UK

A worker changes the window display of Thomas Cook in LoughboroughLONDON (Reuters) - Travel firm Thomas Cook said it would cut 2,500 UK jobs and close 195 stores in Britain as the euro crisis, high fuel costs and unrest in key destinations like Egypt and Greece take their toll on the holiday business. The 172-year-old group has struggled over the last two years with a slump in sales that has forced it to renegotiate bank loans and sell off planes and stores to lighten its debt load while facing a string of profit warnings. ...



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Governments of Turkey and Greece Sign Accord on Istanbul 2020


Governments of Turkey and Greece Sign Accord on Istanbul 2020
Around the Rings (subscription)
Istanbul; 5 March 2013: Greece has pledged its full support to Turkey's bid to host the Olympic and Paralympic Games after the Prime Ministers of both countries signed an historic agreement, underlining once again the power of the Olympic Movement to ...
Greece pledge support to Turkey 2020 Olympic bid in historic agreementInsidethegames.biz
Turkey and Greece sign cooperation for OlympicsBalkans.com Business News

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Energy will not create tension between Greece and Turkey, says Turkish minister


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Energy will not create tension between Greece and Turkey, says Turkish minister
Kathimerini
Energy issues will not become a source of friction between Greece and Turkey, Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz told the English-language Hurriyet Daily News on Wednesday. “We have the intention of using energy issues not as a reason to create ...

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Reaffirmation hearings set for UCF Greek organizations


Reaffirmation hearings set for UCF Greek organizations
Central Florida Future
In about two weeks, UCF Greek life organizations will be allowed to present their plans to a hearing committee, which will decide the suspension status of each chapter. The public hearings will be from March 18 to March 29, according to the Office of ...


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Greek natural gas firm DEPA's profit falls 44 pct in 2012


Greek natural gas firm DEPA's profit falls 44 pct in 2012
Reuters
ATHENS, March 6 (Reuters) - Greek natural gas distributor DEPA, due to be privatised this year, posted a 44 percent drop in annual profit due to a slide in demand and a one-off charge to settle disputes with its biggest client, according to preliminary ...

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Greece's Government Ministers Won't Be Changed: Spokesman


Greece's Government Ministers Won't Be Changed: Spokesman
Bloomberg
Samaras assembled his ministers in June when three political parties came together to form a government after two elections in six weeks. His government is charged with carrying out the reforms needed for Greece to continue receiving bailout loans from ...

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Qatar officials in Greece for investment talks


The Daily Star

Qatar officials in Greece for investment talks
The Daily Star
ATHENS: Officials from Qatar's global investment arm will hold talks in crisis-hit Greece on Wednesday, the development ministry said. Greece has long sought to entice Qatari investment in real estate development to jumpstart its flagging construction ...
Qatar emir buys Greek island OxiaGlobalPost
Emir of Qatar buys six Greek islands for £7mTelegraph.co.uk
Qatar ruler takes title to 6 Greek islandsUPI.com
Greek Reporter -The Australian -The Guardian
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Austerity demands provoke Greek government crisis


Austerity demands provoke Greek government crisis
World Socialist Web Site
Representatives from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), European Commission and European Central Bank (ECB) began talks with the New Democracy-led Greek coalition government Sunday. Continuing throughout the week, the discussions are ...


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A (Greek) life and death situation at BU


A (Greek) life and death situation at BU
Boston Herald
Unlike the Sigma Alpha Mu house on Wadsworth Street in Allston, nobody died in “Animal House,” the movie. True, the make-believe frat brothers of Delta house drank like fish, partied like maniacs and pillaged the surrounding town before a few graduated ...


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Public Hearing on Proposed Charter School in Greece


Public Hearing on Proposed Charter School in Greece
Rochester YNN
A public hearing was held Tuesday on a proposal to create a charter school in Greece. Residents gathered at Odyssey Academy on Maiden Lane Tuesday night to discuss a charter school that would open up at the former Odyssey Academy building on ...
Proposed charter school in Greeces goes to next stepRochester Democrat and Chronicle

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