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Thursday, April 18, 2013

Greek bank recap 'progressing'


Kathimerini

Greek bank recap 'progressing'
Kathimerini
After meeting on Thursday, Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras and Bank of Greece Governor Giorgos Provopoulos confirmed that the recapitalization process in the local credit sector was progressing, and stressed that all four systemic banks will have ...


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EU must back Greece over gas and oil exploration, says Samaras


Kathimerini

EU must back Greece over gas and oil exploration, says Samaras
Kathimerini
Prime Minister Antonis Samaras has called on the European Union to help Athens declare an exclusive economic zone, in which it could exploit any hydrocarbon resources, and suggested that the EU could profit from uniting the areas in which Greece, ...


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Greece launches manhunt after 200 immigrant farmworkers are shot at and wounded for demanding back pay


The increasing severity of racist attacks in Greece is under renewed scrutiny after immigrant farmworkers in the west of the country were shot and wounded for demanding their back pay.



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Greece: Migrants Shot Following Pay Dispute


Greece: Migrants Shot Following Pay Dispute - Sky News
Sky News
Some 20 strawberry pickers from Bangladesh have been shot and wounded in Greece after their foreman opened fire following a dispute about their pay. The shooting occurred close to the village of Manolada, near the Ionian Sea and about 260km (161 ...


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Bangladeshi migrants shot in Greece


Bangladeshi migrants shot in Greece
Bangladesh News 24 hours
About 30 migrant workers, mainly Bangladeshi, have been wounded in a shooting on a strawberry farm in Greece after requesting salaries that had not been paid, according to reports. Print Friendly and PDF. Wounded Bangladeshi migrants are being treated ...


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Greek farm staff 'shoot unpaid strawberry pickers'


Telegraph.co.uk

Greek farm staff 'shoot unpaid strawberry pickers'
Telegraph.co.uk
The labourers had been working in the village of Manolada – 160 miles west of Athens – and some had not received their salary for six months, according to police. The incident occurred yesterday when three foremen opened fire on a group of about 200 ...
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Arrest follows Greek migrant worker shootings


Globe and Mail

Arrest follows Greek migrant worker shootings
Financial Times
Greek police have arrested the owner of a commercial strawberry farm where three foremen opened fire with shotguns on a crowd of Bangladeshi and Pakistani workers demanding wages they claimed had not been paid for six months. Twenty-eight workers ...
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Greece launches manhunt after immigrant farmworkers are shot and wounded for demanding back pay


The increasing severity of racist attacks in Greece is under renewed scrutiny after immigrant farmworkers in the west of the country were shot and wounded for demanding their back pay.



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Greece pledges swift punishment over farm shooting





Police are seeking the three suspects who disappeared after Wednesday's shootings, which occurred during a confrontation with some 200 Bangladeshi farm workers in the country's rural south who say they have not been paid for half a year.

Political parties and trade unions expressed shock, and about 100 people took part in a protest by labor groups outside the Labor Ministry in Athens.

The economic pain, coupled with waves of illegal immigration in recent years, has fuelled a rise in anti-immigrant sentiment that swept members of an extreme far-right party into Parliament last year.

The Greek section of the Doctors of the World medical aid group said the shootings should be treated as a case of racist violence, which carries more severe penalties.

"The protracted financial crisis, combined with a constantly growing mood of xenophobia and tolerance for racist violence, is leading to incidents of barbarity and brutality that ... insult Greece," a group statement said.


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Greece hunts foremen after protesting migrant workers shot


FRANCE 24

Greece hunts foremen after protesting migrant workers shot
FRANCE 24
Anti-foreigner sentiment has been rising in Greece, where one in four workers is unemployed after five years of recession. Police said they had arrested the owner of the farm, in the southwestern town of Manolada, and were still hunting the foremen.


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Greece Teacher Finishes Marathon in Front of Class


Greece Teacher Finishes Marathon in Front of Class
13WHAM-TV
Greece, N.Y. - Runners who were unable to finish the Boston Marathon will get another chance in Boston at a later date. But Wednesday a Greece teacher got to finish her race. Students and staff at Longridge Elementary in Greece helped Amy Lembo finish ...
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Number of Syrians trying to reach EU jumped in 2012

People walk past a destroyed car in a street lined with damaged buildings in Deir al-ZorBRUSSELS (Reuters) - The number of Syrians trying to enter the European Union illegally increased five-fold last year, an EU agency said on Thursday, as refugees fled their war-ravaged country. Almost 8,000 Syrians without papers, and some with false passports, attempted to cross the Greek and Bulgarian borders to reach wealthy nations such as Germany and Sweden, said the EU's Frontex agency, which oversees the bloc's border controls. That compared to 1,600 people in 2011, Frontex said. A two-year old uprising against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has forced 1. ...



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Greece shooting injures at least 20

Greek police were hunting three foremen on Thursday who were suspected of shooting and wounding more than 20 migrant workers at a strawberry farm.

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Two arrested in Greece over shooting of Bangladeshi farm labourers


Economic Times

Two arrested in Greece over shooting of Bangladeshi farm labourers
Times of India
PATRAS (GREECE): Two men have been arrested in Greece after foremen for strawberry growers allegedly shot and wounded 27 migrant labourers demanding long-overdue pay, police said on Thursday. The migrants, mainly from Bangladesh, were ...
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Greece denounces 'shameful' shooting of Bangladeshi strawberry farm workers during pay protest

ATHENS, Greece - Greek officials on Thursday promised "swift and exemplary" punishment for three strawberry plantation foremen who allegedly shot and injured 29 Bangladeshi labourers protesting late pay.



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Head of Greek tourism association sees 2013 as record year for visitors


Head of Greek tourism association sees 2013 as record year for visitors
Kathimerini
Greek tourism revenues are expected to bounce back this year to pre-crisis levels, the industry said on Thursday following the return of political stability to the country. Visitors from Germany, Britain and Russia are expected back. The Mediterranean ...


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Greece's Blood Strawberries: Foremen Shoot 30 Bangladeshi Pickers


IBTimes.co.uk

Greece's Blood Strawberries: Foremen Shoot 30 Bangladeshi Pickers
IBTimes.co.uk
Some 200 Bangladeshi strawberry pickers had gathered to protest over six-month unpaid wages at a farm in Nea Manolada, in the Ilia region of the Peloponnese, south-western Greece. A confrontation with three foremen erupted and at least one of the farm ...


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28 migrant workers wounded in shooting in Greece

Nearly 30 migrant workers in Nea Manolada, Greece, were wounded Wednesday after an apparent argument with their foremen over wages, police said Thursday.

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Greece: Workers shot in wage dispute

Nearly 30 migrant workers in Nea Manolada, Greece, were wounded Wednesday after an apparent argument with their foremen over wages, police said Thursday.

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28 migrant workers wounded in shooting over wages in Greece


Philly.com

28 migrant workers wounded in shooting over wages in Greece
CNN
Athens (CNN) -- Nearly 30 migrant workers in Nea Manolada, Greece, were wounded Wednesday after an apparent argument with their foremen over wages, police said Thursday. "Police are looking for three Greek nationals aged 39, 27 and 21, who ... fired ...
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France’s battered economy: François Hollande’s cyclical troubles




IT IS hard to detect any benefit for President François Hollande in the tax-avoidance scandal that cost him his budget minister in March. Jérôme Cahuzac, formerly responsible for curbing tax fraud, resigned after lying to parliament about a secret Swiss bank account, prompting a tough new transparency drive (see article). But at least one side-effect of the affair has been to distract attention from the troubling state of the economy.On April 16th the IMF issued a grim reminder by forecasting that France will join Spain, Italy, Greece and Portugal in recession in 2013. The Fund now predicts that France’s GDP will fall by 0.1%. The worsening outlook leaves Mr Hollande’s government not only unable to stick to its promises of deficit reduction, but facing an internal political rebellion over how to manage its public finances.Despite the IMF, Pierre Moscovici, the finance minister, is standing by his forecast of growth of 0.1% in 2013 and 1.2% in 2014. He confirmed this on April 17th in France’s stability programme, which it will submit...


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Greek Far Right Gains Support


Greek Far Right Gains Support
Spiegel Online
The Municipal Theater in Piraeus, Greece, was bathed in an eerie light, with yellow floodlights and red torches combining to illuminate the theater's neoclassical façade, which now served as the backdrop for a macabre spectacle: At least 1,000 neo ...


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