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 Kathimerini | EU, IMF ask Greece for more checks on tax evasion suspects Kathimerini Greece's creditors say that Athens needs to conduct more inspections on high-income self-employed groups (mainly doctors and lawyers), to strengthen the unit that monitors wealthy taxpayers and put into immediate operation an automatic system for ... |
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Volunteerism sees significant rise during crisis in Greece Kathimerini The economic crisis appears to have generated a new spirit of volunteerism in Greece, a country where this social activity has not been particularly widespread in the past. A survey made public on Tuesday suggested that there has been a 44 percent ... |
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 Greek Reporter | Greek Offshore Companies Audited Greek Reporter The MP's invoked the ICIJ (International Consortium Investigative Journalists) research and stressed out that only four out of the 107 Greek companies detected are entered in the tax registers, while many of those companies are connected to powerful ... |
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 Press TV | Suicide rate in Greece rises by 26 percent, hits 50-yr. high Press TV Official data show the suicide rate in Greece has soared 26 percent in 2011 compared to a year before, making it the highest rate in past fifty years. Greek national statistics agency, Elstat, said on Tuesday that 477 suicides have been recorded in ... Dramatic Rise in Suicides in Greece Number of suicides hits 50-year record |
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 Kathimerini | Greece to raise clean energy taxes to erase deficit in industry Kathimerini Greece, suffering its sixth year of a recession, will increase renewable-energy taxes next month as part of measures to eliminate the deficit created by subsidies to the industry, a European Union report shows. Greece plans a tax of an average 7 ... |
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The US Supreme Court agreed Monday to weigh the constitutionality of an upstate New York city's tradition of opening its local council meetings with prayers.
Its decision comes a year after a federal appeals court sided with two residents of Greece, New York who contend the prayer practice improperly affiliates the Rochester suburb of 96,000 with a single religion, Christianity.
The case marks the first time in 30 years that the highest court in the United States has considered the separation of church and state when it comes to opening government meetings with prayers.
"A town council meeting isn't a church service and it shouldn't seem like one," said Barry Lynn, executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, which opposes the practice.
"Government can't serve everyone in the community when it endorses one faith over others," he said. "That sends the clear message that some are second-class citizens based on what they believe about religion."
Thomas Hungar, representing Greece's city hall with support from Alliance Defending Freedom, a social conservative group, said "legislative prayer" is deeply rooted in American history.
"We hope the court will reaffirm the settled understanding that such prayers, offered without improper motive and in accordance with the conscience of the prayer-giver, are constitutional," the lawyer said.
Since 1999, town board meetings in Greece have started with a prayer with no restrictions on faith, but plaintiffs Susan Galloway and Linda Stephens say nearly all the prayers have been said by Christian clergy members.
The very few exceptions included a Wiccan priestess, the head of the local Bahai'i congregation and a Jewish layman, according to the appeals court petition filed in September 2012.
The case hinges on the so-called Establishment Clause of the Constitution's First Amendment, or Bill of Rights, which prohibits the US authorities from favoring one religion over another.
The last time the Supreme Court considered such a case, in 1983, it upheld Nebraska's practice of starting its state legislature sessions with prayers, citing a tradition going back to the founding of the nation.
None of the nine Supreme Court justices today were on the bench then. They will take up the case during the court's next term, which opens in October.
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 RT | Gazprom squeezes Greece for better terms as sole major bidder for DEPA RT Gazprom officials are in Athens for talks on acquiring Greece's public gas distributor DEPA. Gazprom is already DEPA's major supplier and there are concerns the EU could block the deal in an attempt to limit Russia's presence in its energy market ... Gazprom president to discuss privatization of Greece's DEPA Gazprom drives hard bargain as sole major bidder for DEPA |
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Why Austerity Kills: From Greece to US, Crippling Economic Policies Causing ... Democracy Now Why Austerity Kills: From Greece to U.S., Crippling Economic Policies Causing Global Health Crisis. Donate. Javascript is required to watch video inline on this page. You can choose another option <a href="/2013/5/21/stream">on the listen/watch page</a ... |
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 The Drinks Business | Flashmob launches Pimm's in Greece - The Drinks Business The Drinks Business Pimm's in Greece To mark the event, a 'Pimm's O'Clock' double decker British bus, known as the 'Friendship Bus', arrived in Athens after a 336 hour journey from Britain. The bus will tour the country over the next two months, uniting friends from ... Diageo brings Pimm's to Greece - Just-Drinks Pimm's and the Pimm's O'Clock Bus arrive in Greece |
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Two Shaker High School Students Earn Perfect Scores on National Greek Exam Patch.com Shaker Heights High School students excelled on the National Greek and the Roman Civilization exams. The students, part of the state's only full four-year public high school Greek program, earned top honors and two students earned perfect scores on the ... |
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