How the world sees Greece
France falls to Greece, Canada makes comeback against Jamaica in exhibition ... Project Spurs The French and Canadian National teams returned to exhibition play (Canada Saturday, France Sunday) over the weekend and in each of their matches, their opponent was the aggressor early on as Canada was able to make a comeback and win, while ... |
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Sydney Morning Herald | Illegal immigrants riot in Greece eNCA ... migrants are kept under police guard early on August 11, 2013. Picture: AFP. ATHENS - A riot has broken out at a detention centre for illegal immigrants in Greece after officials told them that the maximum holding period had been extended to 18 months. Greek police hunt migrant escapees Ten Immigrants Escape Detention Center Dozens of immigrants in Greece clash with police |
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The National Rumbles And Roars At The Greek Theatre Neon Tommy That destructive bent translates into an intensity coiled in Berninger's figure, and as he stepped onto the stage with the rest of the band, wine glass and bottle in hand, something between the figures on stage and the Greek Theatre's audience clicked ... |
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Telegraph.co.uk | Victims of Greek bail-out get chance of class action Telegraph.co.uk Kyros's new Athens office is already co-ordinating the claims of thousands of angry bondholders, who took a 53.5pc upfront haircut on their investments in 2012's restructuring of all Greek public debt held by private creditors. The Private Sector ... |
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Greek police were today searching for eight Pakistanis and two Afghans who escaped during a riot at an immigration detention centre, where human rights groups say migrants and asylum seekers face unacceptably long periods of incarceration in often appalling conditions.
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Detainees burn mattresses, rubbish and throw stones at police. Fifty reported arrested, 10 escaped from Amygdaleza centre
Dozens of illegal immigrants being held in a Greek detention centre hurled stones at police guards and set mattresses on fire in protest over the extension of their detention, Greek police said today.
Greece, struggling to exit its worst financial crisis in decades, has become a frontier for immigrants mainly from Asia and Africa, who seek a better life in Europe but often end up living in cramped detention centres.
More than 50 out of 1,620 migrants held at the detention centre of Amygdaleza, near Athens, were arrested over the clashes, which broke out late on Saturday.
The detainees hurled water bottles and stones at guards and set rubbish bags and mattresses on fire, injuring 10 police guards. There were no reports of injured migrants, police said.
Riot police fired teargas to disperse the crowds, ending the unrest. Police said 10 migrants had escaped.
Greece has been long criticised by human rights groups over the poor conditions at reception centres and a very low rate of asylum application approvals, which makes its treatment of illegal migrants one of the toughest in the EU.
Since the economic crisis broke out, anti-immigrant sentiment has risen in a country where one worker in four is unemployed, boosting the far-right Golden Dawn party which has been ranking third in polls.
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The Guardian | Greece will need more bailout loans by 2014, Bundesbank believes The Guardian Germany's central bank expects Greece to need additional rescue loans from its European partners by the start of 2014 at the very latest, weekly magazine Der Spiegel reported on Sunday, citing a document from the Bundesbank. The report could rekindle a ... Report: Bundesbank expects new bailout for Greece within months of German ... Bundesbank report on Greece raises pressure on Merkel Bundesbank expects more aid for Greece by 2014: Report |
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UPDATE 1-Bundesbank report on Greece raises pressure on Merkel Reuters BERLIN, Aug 11 (Reuters) - German opposition parties accused Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday of lying before elections next month about the risks of a new bailout for Greece, after a magazine reported the Bundesbank expects it will need more ... |
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Figures show real wage value has fallen 5.5% since 2010, more than in eurozone crisis countries such as Spain and Cyprus
The value of UK workers' wages has suffered one of the sharpest falls in the EU, House of Commons library figures show.
The 5.5% reduction in average hourly wages since mid-2010, adjusted for inflation, means British workers have felt the squeeze more than those in countries hit by the eurozone crisis. Spanish workers's wages dropped by 3.3% over the same period and in Cyprus salaries fell by 3% in real terms.
Only Greek, Portuguese and Dutch wages suffered a steeper decline than the UK, the analysis showed, while they rose by 2.7% in Germany and 0.4% in France.
Across the EU as a whole the average fall in wages, adjusted for the European Central Bank' s harmonised index of consumer prices, was 0.7% and in eurozone area 0.1%.
The shadow Treasury minister, Cathy Jamieson, said: "These figures show the full scale of David Cameron's cost of living crisis. Working people are not only worse off under the Tories, we're also doing much worse than almost all other EU countries.
"Despite out of touch claims by ministers, life is getting harder for ordinary families as prices continue rising faster than wages. People on middle and low incomes have also seen tax rises and cuts to tax credits, while millionaires have been given a huge tax cut.
"Ministers keep talking about the global race, but when it comes to living standards it's clear we're losing. David Cameron and George Osborne's economic policies have badly failed over the last three years and working people are paying a heavy price.
"Labour would help middle and low income families right now, including with a lower 10p starting rate of tax, action to tackle soaring energy bills and protecting tax credits for working families by reversing the tax cut for millionaires."
Labour has sought to highlight the rising cost of living in its attacks on the government's economic policies.
Incomes will be £1,520 lower in real terms in 2015 than in 2010, according to Labour analysis of Office for Budget Responsibility forecasts.
Cameron has overseen 35 consecutive months of falling real wages, more than any other prime minister on record, and spending power has dropped in every month but one under coalition rule as price rises outstrip wage increases.
Apart from Cameron, James Callaghan is the only prime minister on record to have overseen more than a year of constantly falling real wages, Labour's analysis of Office for National Statistics figures showed.
The general secretary of the GMB union, Paul Kenny, said: "The government is directly responsible for this unprecedented fall in the real value of wages in the three years since the election.
"Employers paying low wages get taxpayer subsidies in the form of tax credits to assemble a workforce for them to make decent profit margins. The government has also made it easier for employers to abuse staff and made it more difficult for them to do anything about it."
A Treasury spokeswoman said: "The economy is on the mend, but we've still got a long way to go as we move from rescue to recovery and we appreciate that times are still tough for families.
"We are on the right track, the deficit is down by a third, over one and a quarter million new private sector jobs have been created, and interest rates are at near-record lows, benefitting families and businesses."
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Raw Story | Aristotle, Plato and Socrates resurface in Athens amid Greece's economic crisis Raw Story Aristotle, Plato and Socrates have resurfaced in Athens in the midst of Greece's harrowing economic crisis, brought to life by a global philosophy congress in the very locations they once frequented. “It's very important to find oneself in the place ... |
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Can you guess the largest ethnic group in America?
We sorted through Census data on general, Hispanic or Latino, Asian, and American Indian populations to identify the dominant flavors in the great melting pot.
It turns out the biggest group is not the English, who once controlled the 13 colonies, nor the Irish, who came over in vast waves in the 19th century, nor the Mexicans, who cross the southern border in large numbers in search of jobs.
The largest ethnic group, at 49,206,934 people in 2011, is the Germans, who came over in waves dating back to the 1670s.
Of course, ethnicity is a tricky word, and if we were to count all Americans of Hispanic or Latino origin as one group, then that group would take a narrow lead with 49,215,563 people. For the purposes of this list, however, we are sticking with the most specific ethnicities tracked (in self-reporting surveys) by the Census.
Although Greek heritage has been recorded in the U.S. since the 1600s, the most substantial number of Greek immigrants came to the U.S. from the mid-1800s up until Greece's admission to the European Union in 1981. Today the U.S. is home to the largest Greek community outside of Greece.
Famous Greek Americans: Jennifer Aniston; Bob Costas; Tina Fey; John Stamos; Frank Zappa; and George Papanicolaou, creator of the Pap smear.
After the fall of dictator Rafael Trujillo in 1965, the U.S. occupied the Dominican Republic in order to end a civil war. The U.S. also eased travel restrictions, and as a result, large numbers of Dominicans began immigrating to the U.S. in the late 1960s.
The states with the most Dominican Americans are New York, New Jersey, Florida, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania.
Famous Dominican Americans include: Sammy Sosa, Junot Díaz, Oscar De La Renta, Alex Rodriguez, and Zoe Saldana.
Danes have been living in the U.S. since the late 1600s, but they steadily immigrated to America for much of the 1800s before Danish immigration tapered off. California, Utah, Minnesota, and Wisconsin all have large numbers of Danish Americans.
Famous Danish Americans include: Mary Kate & Ashley Olsen, Scarlet Johansson, Lars Ulrich of Metallica, the Hanson brothers, and Iggy Pop are all Danish.
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