Crisis Forces Greek Women into Prostitution

The Greek financial crisis has been forcing more and more housewives into illegal prostitution to make ends meet. They take off their aprons, leave their kids and husbands at home, dress up in sexy clothes and prostitute themselves to strangers to supplement the family income and survive. According to the newspaper Espresso, the dozens of jobless and desperate Greek housewives hit by the ...

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New IMF Resident Rep Raised in Thessaloniki

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Greece sees need for €10bn extra support

Greece may need a further €10bn in extra support from its eurozone partners but would not expect any conditions attached, its finance minister said

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Officials Move to Damp Speculation of Greek Debt Cut

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Letter From Athens In Greece We Dont Trust

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Thyranixia of Two Greek Orthodox Churches

The event coincided with the Bicentennial of the United States. The East End was mesmerized by ... His pleasant personality made all guests welcome in the community. He is a self-made man with a strong work ethic. Self-sacrifice, thinking ...

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Greek finance minister sees need for €10bn fresh support

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Future Greece bailout 'much smaller'

A future bailout for Greece in 2014 would be a 'much smaller' package, with no austerity conditions.

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Britain to be roped into EU rescue aid for Greece

Telegraph.co.ukBritain to be roped into EU rescue aid for GreeceTelegraph.co.ukGünther Oettinger, Germany's EU commissioner, said on Sunday that a third package worth over €10bn will be needed in 2014 and will partly come in the form of direct help rather than a debt haircut for existing creditors. The Greek daily Kathimerini said ...Do not expect a Merkel win to be Europe's game changerFinancial TimesOfficials Move to Damp Greek Debt-Cut SpeculationWall Street JournalGreece 'may need 10bn euros more'BBC NewsKFGO -Sky News Australiaall 62 news articles »

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Argos: 40 years of catalogue shopping

Everyone shops at Argos. And for the past 40 years, it has been an institution on our high streets and in our homes, thanks to the famous catalogues. One writer recalls her milestone purchases and how the chain put an aspirational lifestyle within the nation's grasp

Why does Argos make people laugh? There is no punchline, by the way; this isn't a joke. The shop is celebrating its 40th anniversary this summer, but despite that small lifetime on British high streets, it has never been seen as impressive nor iconic. It has survived the recession intact – unlike Comet, HMV, Jessops, Habitat and TJ Hughes to name a few – and without deserting the high street. Yet it is neither held up as a model for good governance in the way that John Lewis is, nor as a teller of retail fortunes, in the way of Marks & Spencer. It is not even deprecatingly beloved in the way that good old Woolworths was. In fact, the only cultural commentators to have paid Argos any attention, to have held its model of retail up to scrutiny and found it interesting, are comedians.

Michael McIntyre satirised Argos for trying to mount a coup on 1970s retail and failing to notice that other shops weren't imitating it. Bill Bailey based a whole routine on the pathos of the catalogue, the "laminated book of dreams" – plastic-coated to catch people's tears. Even Argos's chief executive says he has heard the shop described as "quirky". To some, Argos is a bit of a joke.

And yet an estimated 18 million UK households have an Argos catalogue; 96% of the population is never further than 10 miles from a store. The particular foibles of the Argos shopping experience may have amused McIntyre and Bailey, but those foibles revolutionised high-street shopping, delivered innovation that even Marks & Spencer and John Lewis copied, and brought to the British public an analogue version of the internet long before the internet, as we know it, was invented.

Bailey would snort at that idea, wouldn't he? Well, no. It is his idea. "Before internet shopping, there was Argos," he says. "I have a great fondness for the place. I've been going all my life. Yes, there's some gaudy jewellery and some dodgy-looking phones. But I don't care. This is pure shopping, point and pay, like an analogue click and buy."

In 1973 Argos even looked a bit like the internet looks now. The contents page of the first catalogue was laid out as a pictorial grid, much like Newser or Buzzfeed: a portal. Like Amazon, Argos was completist, diligently grading and categorising products, a Rolodex of shopping. The jewellery pages from a 1983 catalogue, to give a random illustration, offer six types of plain gold chain, the links of each minutely distinct: venetian, serpentine, foxtail, cobra, trace and curb, belcher. Item descriptions were fetishistically detailed, habitually rounded off with the words "Complete with …", even though this phrase usually turned out to be a voluptuous description for a rather perfunctory feature (camera complete with wrist strap, hair tongs complete with plug). Some of the product names from this period, full of forward slashes, read like a URL: "Gents Scientific Calculator/Chrome/Alarm/LCD watch."

Argos was launched in summer 1973 by Richard Tompkins, the man who had introduced Green Shields stamps to the UK 15 years earlier, and who clearly had an eye for consumer novelty. He died in 1992 but his widow, Elizabeth Tompkins, who still shops at Argos, says she recalls being "invited to go to America to see the new phenomenon of catalogue shopping. We went to Canada and the US and were very impressed." It took a further year to bring Argos to launch and, as a result of that research trip, its shops were not shops but "showrooms". Its points of sale were linked to its warehouses – something that wasn't trialled at Marks & Spencer for a further eight years, and not completed at John Lewis until 1978.

Newspaper advertisements promised a "shopping REVOLUTION!". Argos launched with a show, complete with dancers and specially written songs. It offered a distinct union of self-service shops and catalogues – the convenience of shopping at home, with the face-to-face contact of a local shop.

A was for Argos, the start of something, not least the alphabet. (Like Jeff Bezos at Amazon, Tompkins wanted it to chart early in alphabetical indices.) An editorial in the inaugural staff magazine listed definitions of "Argos". It was "Greek for 'swift'" and "the oldest continuously inhabited town in Europe". A great river, an ancient civilisation – the geography may differ but the declaration of ambition, the motivation by scale, do not.

So why all the laughter?

In 1979, Argos's turnover topped £100m. Its annual turnover to March 2013 was £3,297m. But Argos's parent group, Home Retail, has seen its profits fall from £426m in 2008 to just £130m last year. Argos itself has had a difficult recession. Its overall sales figures have only just started growing again, for the first time in more than five years. From 17 stores at the end of 1973, it now has 735, but 75 of those may close.

Argos on London's Camden High Street is one of the stores in which the chain's hierarchy has selected to test its modernisation programme. Next door is a Lidl, and outside a man is handing out flyers for McDonald's. Here the bestselling item is an own-brand kettle, priced at £5. Inside, a wall clock, portable cassette recorder, dinner set and a Ken Hom wok are waiting at the collection point. A deep-fat fryer is being returned.

Browsing the catalogue on one of the store's newly installed iPads is Harry Wyatt, 23, a medical student. He's wearing Nike trainers and a T-shirt that says: "Work 8 hours. Play 8 hours. Rest 8 hours." He would like to buy a steamer for DIY, and judging by his own classification, he regards it is an emergency. "John Lewis is where I buy for quality. Amazon is for electronics, books, music. Small deliverable goods. Argos is need-them-now goods."

Monica Threlfall is also shopping, flicking the 1,700-page catalogue for a tripod. Her recent Argos purchases include a TV, coffee table, loo seat, kettle, kitchen spotlights, curtain rails and cushions. "Oh, and a fridge!" she says. She is a university lecturer. "In terms of status," she says, "Argos is lower than John Lewis. My friends sometimes joke: 'Argos – your favourite shop!' And it's catalogue shopping, but I think it's very underrated by the professional classes. They think it lacks taste."

John Walden has pale blue eyes – not Argos blue, which he admits to finding "a little cheap" – and a smart suit. He is the Argos chief executive, appointed 18 months ago and charged with taking the store into the digital age. Does he think, like Threlfall's friends, that Argos has an image problem? It's the only time he stumbles. "It's probably among ... potentially ... among some groups, potentially."

From the start, Argos was a value retailer. Its logo has always been red and white, as if perennially shouting "Sale!" or "Christmas!" It is easy to find evidence for a taste problem. The little pens, the forms to fill in, the wait for a number to be called, all echo the paraphernalia of a betting shop, a bingo hall or a long wait in a government building. Despite its best efforts, some of its catalogue styling has been comically off-key: there was always something illicit about those 1980s shots of women dressed in only bikini bottoms, smiling from their sunbeds, the cheesy couples advertising his-and-her robes (his always too short), or the woman demonstrating a home gym in 1995 in a thong leotard, even then at the racy end of leisurewear. In the launch issue, a couple pose in full scuba gear, her with a blowdry, him a harpoon. They look absurdly happy.

But something more basic has given Argos its problem. Threlfall is not a typical shopper. Argos is, predominantly, a store for the less affluent.

When Tompkins launched his brainchild, catalogue use in the UK was peaking. The very term catalogue "would have given a sense of working-class market", says Sean O'Connell, co-author of Mail Order in Britain: a Business and Social History. What Argos did was "to identify a niche for people who wanted to be individual customers" – who found the prospect of a grilling by a department store sales assistant mortifying, but who wanted something more private than the communal consumption of the catalogue, "where your Auntie Kathleen comes round for a cup of tea and three or four women who are neighbours are sitting round making their selections". Argos offered a pathway out of the catalogue experience, gave catalogue consumers a starting point they would recognise and led them into its shops, showed them how to migrate to something better. And as O'Connell says, "that ties in with a lot of the grand narratives about the decline of working-class communities and the rise of individualism in the 1970s and 1980s."

Large numbers of the working class were becoming bank customers for the first time; the less affluent 50% of individuals in Britain were receiving their greatest share of income in history. But it still might be surprising to learn that the most expensive item in Argos's first catalogue was a "brilliant cut 18ct white gold ring set with a brilliant cut diamond", recommended retail price £5,000, Argos price £3,500 – more expensive than the costliest ring in the current catalogue, and at a time when the top 10% of adult men had gross weekly earnings of £60.90.

Perhaps Tompkins hoped for a more affluent customer. After all, his directors persuaded his "apprehensive" wife to give her maiden name to the jewellery line – Elizabeth Duke, with its whiff of aristocracy – or perhaps he wanted to disguise the logic that catalogues were for the less well-off. Or perhaps he just loved diamonds, top of the list of essentials "for yourself, your family, or your home" in the launch ads. In any case, the three carat diamond did not last long. By autumn/winter 1977, Argos's priciest ring cost £200.

If Argos was aspirational, what made it so alluring was that its peculiar shopping system dramatised the redemption of that aspiration. Then, as now, the first act was the catalogue. Suspense grew as the assistant typed in the code: would it be in stock? Then the payment, fulfilment of a sort, and a second slip to take to the collection point. And finally, the wait for your box to arrive from above, wobbling down a conveyor belt or revealed in a dumb waiter – a toaster! – like some brilliant deus ex machina of retail. It is no wonder, really, that Michael McIntyre described this process as a "bizarre theatre for the poor" – at Camden there is a row of (laminated) seats at the collection point, from which to watch. But what McIntyre doesn't say, and perhaps couldn't know, is that it was good theatre.

When I was a child, the Argos catalogue put within reach all kinds of social improvements that could not otherwise be imagined. It wasn't only that Argos supplied such milestones as my first watch (a Timex), first ring (still owned, about 25 years later), first personal stereo (Philips), jewellery box ("with attractive inlaid lid"), camera (the Halina Sharpshooter), hair tongs (Braun Quick Style Duo), electronic typewriter (Smith Corona), the family's first video recorder. It also offered a path to a more affluent lifestyle – the Breville sandwich toaster, with its poshing-up and cafe-ification of the kitchen, and, later, a filter coffee maker. There simply wasn't anywhere else with the breadth and nationwide reach to learn all those things. Argos taught an appreciation for specification, and it put within the flick of a page social signifiers that you knew – even at a young age – suggested something other than what you really were. The glorious possibility, for instance, of one day owning a bale of matching towels, a crystal decanter, a string of pearls.

Walden eschews the idea that Argos is primarily for the less affluent. "The truth is, 70% of households in the UK do business with us; that is distributed pretty equally across socioeconomic groups," he says. His challenge is that some of them shop there only once or twice a year. Terry Duddy, the chief executive of Argos's parent company, Home Retail Group, has spoken about the store's struggles in the recession because of the pinch on its customers. But Walden is not keen on that sort of language. He speaks of "a strategy to become more universally appealing – which basically means, let's carry more of the ranges that are desired by more customer groups". He uses the word "universal" repeatedly as a means of avoiding "class". He would like to encourage "a more universal customer". "Universal" is the opposite of cheap: that Argos turquoise "doesn't feel universal". Why? "It's a good question. I don't know. Maybe I'm egalitarian. I don't like talking about class. I don't want to cater to a certain class. I just want to be good enough for everybody, and good for everybody."

In future, there will be a greater spread of price points. Argos has been cosying up to the internet ever since its logo was redesigned in 2010 when the underlining sweep of its "A" was cut loose and turned into a giant smile. Last month it hired its first digital director. And while the catalogue will still enjoy a supporting role, customers will be encouraged to use digital platforms: already 15% of sales come through mobiles.

A north-east trial is testing the possibility of ordering digitally in the morning and collecting from store the same afternoon, a souped-up Click and Collect, which Argos launched in 2001, eight years before John Lewis. The shopping experience that is recognisably, uniquely Argos is changing. It will look no more like one of those "skeleton" clocks the shop used to sell, its inner workings proudly on show – the stock check, the glimpses of attendants ferrying boxes around, the whir of the mini printer giving them the next order – as if its peculiar mechanism were a wonder of engineering. Soon you will browse, check stock and pay.

In Camden, Sumayyah Fellah thinks the innovations are working. "I like the new changes," she says. "It's really improved, if you know how to use it" – which she clearly does, fingers sliding skilfully over a silky screen. "It's brilliant. And they always have what you want." She is nine years old, and her mum has just bought a piping set.

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Greece could receive additional aid without fresh bailout terms or haircut: Greek FinMin

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Officials Move to Damp Greek Debt-Cut Speculation

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The European Magazine: Leaving Neverland

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Labour needs a bold message to disrupt the Cameron-Farage conversation

Ed Miliband can regain ground if he looks to the long term and starts talking about poverty and the housing crisis

Economic recovery makes politics more interesting. All the time growth was flatlining, Labour needed to do little more than bang on about George Osborne's austerity programme and point out that Britain was in a worse state than when Gordon Brown ceased to be prime minister in 2010.

But over the last four months the mood has changed. There are the stirrings of recovery. House prices are rising and so is consumer confidence. Factory output is up. Exporters can take heart from the slightly better news from the eurozone. All this highlights difficulties for Ed Miliband that have always been there but have been disguised while the economic news was so poor. Now they are out in the open and, with an election less than two years away, have to be addressed quickly.

Problem number one is that Labour never managed to rid itself of the stigma of bankrupting the country during the financial crisis. The government successfully developed a narrative that linked alleged fiscal incontinence by Labour to the biggest recession and the largest budget deficit in Britain's history.

This story does not really stack up. When the financial crisis began, the UK was running a budget deficit of 2.5% of GDP. The national debt was 35% of GDP, smaller than in the US, and half the level in Germany and France. After 16 years of uninterrupted growth, it could rightly be argued that the public finances should have been in an even healthier state but the claim that the crisis began in the public sector is fatuous.

The crisis had its origins in the US sub-prime mortgage market and spread around the world through the agency of networked financial markets. Britain suffered more than most because the economy is heavily dependent on financial services, and the financial sector was inadequately regulated.

Labour has to hold its hands up and admit that it was responsible for the tripartite system of regulation. But the dominance of finance began long before the arrival of Tony Blair in Downing Street in 1997; it dates back to the de-industrialisation and the Big Bang reforms of the City in the 1980s.

This more nuanced narrative has, however, been drowned out. Osborne has been remarkably successful in spreading a much simpler message: Labour left the cupboard bare after 13 years of wanton profligacy. In every other country, with the exception perhaps of Greece, it is taken as read that the chronology of the crisis was banking collapse, economic collapse, huge increase in the budget deficit. Not in Britain, though.

Labour's second problem stems from the first. Unable to shake off blame for the crisis, it is finding it hard to get a hearing. The conversation going on in British politics this summer has been conducted by two parties of the right: the Conservatives and Ukip. It involves three issues – welfare, immigration and Europe – in which David Cameron and Nigel Farage try to outbid each other with shows of machismo.

If the political battle remains on this turf, Labour will struggle. Few voters are going to believe Miliband will, say, be tougher on welfare than Cameron. Labour needs the debate over the next 18 months to be about the NHS, care for the elderly, the shortage of housing, falling living standards, the shortage of skills and rising child poverty. Areas, in other words, where it feels more comfortable.

And with his poll ratings slipping, Miliband's third problem is that changing the nature of the discourse is likely to get more difficult as the economy continues to recover. True, the recovery is thus far modest. True, the level of national output will remain below its pre-recession levels for some time. True, wages are failing to keep pace with prices. True, the country appears to be in the early stages of a housing bubble even though on some measures of affordability – such as the house price to earnings ratio – residential property is already 25% more expensive than its long-term average.

But while Osborne is doing a passable impersonation of Reggie Maudling circa 1963-4, stoking up a pre-election boom, that's probably not the way it will look over the coming months. It will take time for the dangerous side-effects of ramping up housing demand to become apparent. The formal Treasury message is of the economy moving from recession to recovery: the unofficial message will be that the government is finally sorting out the mess left by Labour.

What should Miliband do to counteract these difficulties? Well, for a start, he needs to recognise that he has some things going for him. It is not true that the entire electorate spends its time railing at welfare scroungers, bemoaning the number of immigrants and frothing at the mouth about Europe.

Voters have other concerns: whether the NHS is fit for purpose; whether they are going to be penurious in old age; whether their children are going to be able to buy a home of their own. Even in areas such as immigration, there is space for a more intelligent debate in which the question is not 'why are there so more workers from overseas in sandwich bars and restaurants?' Rather, it is 'what has gone so badly wrong with education and training policy that British-born workers are regularly shunned by employers?'

Miliband's other advantage is the relentlessly short-termist nature of the government's programme. The decision to provide mortgage subsidies is the most obvious manifestation of this, but on big issue after big issue the coalition has kicked a decision into the future: on airport capacity in the south-east, on renewable energy, on elderly care.

Cameron has provided no clue as to the sort of country he expects Britain to be in 10 or 20 years from now. Accordingly, there is a prize for the party that has the answers to the big questions that will have to be tackled over the next decade: from energy policy to coping with the costs of an ageing population.

Labour says that work on this sort of long-term agenda is under way, and that the talk of a squeezed middle and a one-nation Britain are part of an attempts to rethink itself in opposition. But parties have to earn the right to be listened to. Before Labour can claim to represent the future it has to put the past to bed and interrupt the Cameron-Farage conversation.

That means defending what it got right more vigorously than it has done, admitting what it got wrong with less reluctance and coming up with some proposals for tackling Britain's chronic problems – poverty, under-investment, falling living standards among them – that don't look cramped and defensive.

It should start with a manifesto for the young: tackling the housing crisis through building rather than mortgage subsidies and youth unemployment through national insurance cuts for employers that take on the under-25s and a 10-year programme to boost skills.

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Korres Supercar Made in Greece

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Greece Probing Why Doctors Shun Generics

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When Greece banks melted, the EU talked threatened to cut it loose... but have ¿10billion

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Father Philemon Karamanos retired June 30 after 45 years as head of the church ... returned to Michigan to serve at St. George Greek Orthodox Church in Lincoln Park July 1968. The parish relocated to Southgate in 1977. He has been largely ...

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Greece must press ahead

ATHENS - Greece can achieve a primary budget surplus this year and growth in 2014 if it sticks to economic reforms, but a return to bond markets will be challenging, European Central Bank Executive Board member Joerg Asmussen told Sunday's To Vima newspaper.

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9 Things Greek Life Will Teach You

The first semester of my freshman year of college, I joined a sorority. After endless laughs from my friends who know I am not the “sorority type” as well as the worry ensued in my parents, I have spent the past three semesters joining committees ...

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Greece may get another $13.36bn says EU official

(MENAFN - The Peninsula) Germany's commissioner to the European Union says he expects a future aid package for Greece to amount to a little more than 10bn (13.36bn) - which is much smaller than the country's existing two rescue deals. Guenther Oettinger, the EU's Energy Commissioner and a member of Chancellor Angela Merkel's ruling conservative party, said yesterday the third ...

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Iowans on the Go: Greek isle Santorini a jewelof a destination

Iowans on the Go: Greek isle Santorini a jewelof a destinationDesMoinesRegister.comThe explanation of how my wife, Leslie, and I came to spend our summer vacation on the Greek island of Santorini is a somewhat circuitous one, beginning 35 years ago with our honeymoon in Greece, when we spent most of a day on this island as part of a ...

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Annual Vallejo Greek Festival comes alive with stories, music

"I come for him, not for me," Konstantinopoolos said as the frying calamari turned a golden brown behind him. And that's the kind of little stories present Saturday as people crowded into the 65-year-old church on Alabama Street. As always ...

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Greek And Spanish House Prices Still Falling

Demand to buy homes is falling away fast, with the bank reporting a drop in the number of sales and the value of transactions. In the first three months of 2013, the number of homes sold was 24.5% down on the same period last year, to just 4,976 from ...

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Let Greece defuse financing gap issue

KathimeriniLet Greece defuse financing gap issueKathimeriniGreece's financing gap, estimated around 11 billion euros over the 2014-16 period, has become an issue of political contention in Germany ahead of the general elections in September. It should not. The Greek government should help by stating clearly ...

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Further aid to Greece will be small: Germany

The GuardianFurther aid to Greece will be small: GermanyPakistan Daily TimesFRANKFURT: A third aid package for Greece will be much smaller than the two preceding programmes, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said in a newspaper interview on Friday. “We have held out the prospect of further aid, on condition that ...Greece must press on with reforms despite pain-ECB's AsmussenReutersMerkel Says G20 Needs to Push Harder to Control Hedge Fund RisksBloombergGreece may need €10bn, German official saysTelegraph.co.ukDaily Astorianall 28 news articles »

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The secret plane stuffed full of cash that saved the euro: When Greece burned and its banks melted, the EU talked tough and threatened to cut it loose... but covertly flooded it with ¿10billion

While issuing public threats to Greeks, in private the EU Troika authorised military and commercial cargo planes to feed them euros – billions-worth on every flight.

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Greeks turn to non-EU countries to exit crisis: survey

US President Barack Obama said on Saturday that higher education shouldn't be a luxury, touting his revamped education plan to make college more affordable.

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EU's Oettinger: Greek Debt Cut Can't Be Ruled Out 'for All Time' -Report

Greek ReporterEU's Oettinger: Greek Debt Cut Can't Be Ruled Out 'for All Time' -ReportWall Street JournalThe prospect of a third Greek aid program became a hot topic in Germany this past week, when Mr. Schaeuble said clearly that Greece would need more aid, rather than just warning that further aid is likely. "I haven't said anything other than what the ...New Greek Aid Seen At 10B EurosGreek ReporterMerkel Says G20 Needs to Push Harder to Control Hedge Fund RisksBloombergIs Europe still in crisis?Telegraph.co.ukKathimeriniall 27 news articles »

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Opa! Greek Festival offers food, fun for all

Tickets are $3 for adults and free for children 12 and under. Military, police officers, fire personnel and students are free with ID. Admission also is free with a canned good donation, with all items going to the Siena-Francis House.

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PAOK, Panathinaikos stumble in first away games in the Greek league

by  Associated Press PAOK, Panathinaikos suffer away losses Associated Press - 24 August 2013 17:51-04:00

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Three days after battling German club Schalke to a 1-1 away draw in a Champions League playoff matchup, PAOK lost 2-0 to Greek league newcomer Panetolikos Saturday.

Milan Bojovic scored in the 27th minute and Paschalis Melissas added the second in first-half injury time for Panetolikos, which is playing in the top flight for just the second time in 36 years. PAOK, which won its league debut last Saturday, is seen as the main challenger to defending champion Olympiakos.

Former powerhouse Panathinaikos, rebuilding after a disappointing last season, lost 3-0 to Panionios, its heaviest defeat in 54 visits there.

Christos Aravidis and Dimitris Kolovos scored for Panionios, and defender Nikos Marinakis contributed an own goal.

Also Saturday, Veria beat OFI 2-0.

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Greek wrap: PAOK, Panathinaikos suffer away losses

Milan Bojovic scored in the 27th minute and Paschalis Melissas added the second in first-half injury time for Panetolikos, which is playing in the top flight for just the second time in 36 years. PAOK, which won its league debut last Saturday, is seen as ...

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Annual Greek Heritage Festival of the Saints Constantine & Helen in Cleveland ...

NewsNet5.comAnnual Greek Heritage Festival of the Saints Constantine & Helen in Cleveland ...NewsNet5.comCLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio - The Annual Greek Heritage Festival of the Saints Constantine & Helen Greek Orthodox Community in Cleveland Heights is taking place Saturday and Sunday. The festival is taking place at 3352 Mayfield Road in Cleveland ...

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Greece may get another $A14.9b

GERMANY'S commissioner to the European Union says he expects a future aid package for Greece to amount to a little more than 10 billion euros ($A14.90 billion) - much smaller than its two existing rescue ...

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