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How the world sees Greece
Sunday, September 1, 2013
Greek anti-terror prosecutor escapes injury in letter bomb attack
Greek police say a special anti-terrorism prosecutor has escaped injury after a letter bomb exploded at his home.
Greece Man Dies at NYC Music Festival
Greece Man Dies at NYC Music FestivalRochester YNNThe final day of a music festival in New York City was canceled after the death of two people, including one man from the Rochester area. The New York Police Department says Jeffrey Russ, 23, of Greece and a woman from Providence, Rhode Island died at ...
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Andrea Casiraghi's Bride Gets Married In Missoni
Oh, how we love the sweet sound of royal wedding bells in the distance! This time around, the lucky groom was Andrea Casiraghi, who tied...
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It's absurd that Golden Dawn is being allowed to hound my friend into court
The trial of Savvas Michael-Matsas, one of the few Jewish public intellectuals in Greece, is a cheap sop to neo-Nazis
"I'm the embodiment of every fascist's fantasy. I'm a Jew, a communist – and a heretical communist, a Trotskyist, at that. I don't fit anywhere. The only thing I happen not to be is homosexual."
My old friend Savvas Michael-Matsas – activist, internationally respected writer on philosophy and literature, general secretary of the Greek Revolutionary Workers' party (EEK), utopian thinker, fiery speaker and wild white-haired survivor of 17 courses of chemotherapy ("No compromise with death") – is on trial in Athens on Tuesday, 3 September, for "libelous defamation," "incitement to violence and civil discord", and "disturbing the public peace".
The suit against him has been brought by members and supporters of the neo-Nazi party, Golden Dawn; the background is a call to an anti-fascist protest issued by EEK in May 2009, which ended with the slogan: "The people don't forget, they hang fascists" (it's catchier in Greek). As Anny Paparousou, Savvas's lawyer, explained to me, this is effectively a prosecution of political speech – the first prosecution of an anti-fascist slogan in Europe. It's as if the National Front had sued the SWP for shouting "Smash fascism" – and been taken seriously. But with 18 seats in parliament, 13% in the polls and muscle-bound thugs on the streets, Golden Dawn makes the old NF look harmless and almost sweet.
Though Golden Dawn's suit was filed against a long list of individuals and organisations, only Savvas and Constantinos Moutzouris, former chancellor of the National Technical University of Athens, have so far been called to trial. Moutzouris's alleged offence is that he allowed the radical website Athens Indymedia to use the university's server; his prosecution may be seen as part of the government's campaign to shut down the "alternative space" in which leftists, anarchists and anti-austerity activists have thrived for many years. Savvas's trial fits that category, too: EEK is a meeting place for Marxist and anarchist currents, advocating, in Savvas's words, "not exit from the euro, which is a Talmudic discussion, but exit from the system". There's also a darker side: it's hard to avoid the conclusion that Savvas has been selected not only as a radical but as a Jew.
The progress of the trial thus far raises questions about whether, and if so to what extent, the authorities are colluding with the neo-Nazis. Several of Golden Dawn's members have serious charges pending but never seem to see the inside of a courtroom. Themis Skordeli, a signatory to this suit, was charged with stabbing an Afghan man in September 2011; her trial has been postponed eight times. The MP Ilias Panagiotaros, another of the complainants, owns a shop called Phalanga that sells street-fighting paraphernalia; he told the BBC last year that Greece is heading for civil war.
But picking out the Jew to be the first to walk the plank is sleazy beyond belief, a cheap sop to the fascist gallery. As one of the few Jewish public intellectuals in Greece, Savvas has long been targeted by neo-Nazi websites, with slogans like "Crush the Jewish worm" and claims that he can be found lurking under every stone, fomenting civil war among pure-blooded Greeks in order to establish a Judeo-Bolshevik state. He has also been accused of being both an agent of Iran and a fully paid-up member of the international Zionist conspiracy (in fact he's a fierce anti-Zionist), as well as having long hair (he does, despite the chemo and the rabbinical hat he bought in case he lost his locks).
The absurdity of all this doesn't make it less dangerous. "There is nothing reassuring about the repetition of a historical tragedy as farce," writes Savvas in his recent book, The Horror of a Parody: Three Talks About Golden Dawn. Article 192 of the Greek penal code, under which Savvas is charged, has been used twice against minority groups in the last 25 years; both times there were convictions. The rise of the far right in crisis-ridden Greece has both fed on and fuelled a blood-and-belonging nationalism and hatred of the other for which antisemitism is the original historical pattern. "Kill the Jew you carry inside you and is your negative self, incapable of giving your life meaning through a higher ideal," counselled Golden Dawn's first declaration of ideological principles. "Then, fight the Jew around you."
The Greek government has made common cause with these people in its desperate effort to drive home the neoliberal agenda of its creditors and protect Greece's own corrupt elites. The admittedly violent rhetoric of parts of the Greek left is equated with the widespread physical violence of the extreme right, which is cosseted and supported in its crusade against immigrants, leftists, homosexuals, misfits of all kinds. There is to be no room in the new order for anything counter, original, spare, strange.
I first met Savvas years ago at a conference celebrating the centenary of the Greek surrealist poet and visionary Andreas Embeirikos. We spoke about the writer's relationship to the work of Herman Melville, especially Moby-Dick, and Savvas still puts me in mind of the white whale: a force of nature sounding to great depths, bent on a single quixotic quest, not for revenge but for liberation – no less vital for being always out of reach. The black-shirted skinheads of Golden Dawn, driven by fear and hate, are the Ahabs of this world. They must not be allowed to win.
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Greece Won’t Cede Privatization
Shooting down a suggestion from the country’s international lenders that the country’s lagging privatization program be put into the hands of a private, foreign agency to get it going, Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras categorically ruled it out. That came after media reports of a possible transfer of the agency’s responsibilities to Europe. The ';(Privatisation fund) ...
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Greek Cooking Passion In California
Photo/Jay Dunn/The Salinas Californian) Christina Xitakis (L) and Lauren Poulos put layers of pastry onto galaktobourico at the Greek Church in Salinas, California preparing for the Labor Day Festival. SALINAS, Calif. - In a back room of their Salinas church, in the bustling choreography achieved only by true artists, a group of people of Greek descent prepare authentic sweets and other foods for ...
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Perversion pervades Venice film fest with modern Greek tragedy
By Isla Binnie VENICE (Reuters) - A modern Greek tragedy of incest, prostitution and violence continued on Sunday the theme of sexual and moral perversion which has emerged at this year's Venice Film Festival. The audience flinched during "Miss Violence" as traditional family relationships were shown to be hideously corrupted after one of the children commits suicide on her 11th birthday. Films ...
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Greece Drew the Celebs This Summer
Greek ReporterGreece Drew the Celebs This SummerGreek ReporterMYKONOS Stars of Hollywood and famous names of the fashion world visited Greece during summer 2013 for their holidays and shared their impressions with their fans. The words Greek island have entered the celebrities' vocabulary, while Greece has ...
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To Change Greece Requires Changing the Nation's Political Culture
To Change Greece Requires Changing the Nation's Political Culture - and This ...Truth-OutStriking farmers market vendors hand out fruit and vegetables for free to consumers in Athens, Greece, May 15, 2013. (Photo: Angelos Tzortzinis / The New York Times)For Greece to overcome its crisis, the country's political culture must be changed ...
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Yogurt: it's all Greek
The Idaho StatesmanYogurt: it's all GreekDaily HeraldFRANKFURT, Germany SEmD Chobani Inc. got Americans hooked on Greek yogurt. Now Paris-based Danone wants to slip the stuff into products from dips to dessert in a bid to unseat the market leader. After being blindsided by the upstart SEmD Chobani ...Chobani yogurt removed from store shelvesThe Idaho Statesmanall 4 news articles »
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Greece man dies at Electric Zoo music festival in New York City
Montreal GazetteGreece man dies at Electric Zoo music festival in New York CityRochester Democrat and ChronicleNEW YORK — A 23-year-old Greece man has died after what officials suspect was a drug overdose during the Electric Zoo music festival in New York City, prompting the event's sudden cancellation. Jeffrey Russ died at about 3:21 a.m. Saturday several ...Greece man dies during NYC music festivalNews 10NBCall 77 news articles »
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New Democracy Leads SYRIZA By 0.1
The ruling party New Democracy Conservatives of Prime Minister Antonis Samaras continue to hold a paper-thin lead over the major opposition party Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) a 0.1 percent margin that is negligible given the margin of error which means either party could be ahead. The poll was taken by Metron Analysis on behalf of the Greek financial newspaper Ependytis that showed ND ...
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Greek Tax Agents Meet Hostile Crowds
Riot police were needed to control an angry crowd at a Hydra taverna upset the owner was arrested for tax violations Restaurant and tavern owners and customers are increasingly harassing tax inspectors at a time when Greece has intensified a long-overdue crackdown on tax evasion, but officials are determined to enforce the tax laws. Residents in a village in Peloponnese barred SDOE Financial ...
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Fitch Sees Greek Property Market Fall
With property values in Greece plummeting during a crushing economic crisis in which buyers are scarce, the ratings agency Fitch is again revising how bad it is, estimating a 42 percent drop in values. More than 110,000 businesses have closed in the last three years and Greek cities are peppered with empty storefronts and vacant properties attracting little interest, even with cut-rate rents. ...
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Greek Hotel Webpage For Chinese Tourists
Four dragons: Breakfast earlier than 7am for city hotels and before 8am for resorts; must have congee, hard boiled eggs, soy milk, white bread, chopsticks and chopstick holders, dim sum items, and Chinese tea, oyster, black bean, garlic ...
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BEWARE THE IDES OF SEPTEMBER: 5 Potential Flashpoints That Could Make This Month Especially Chaotic
September is a dangerous month. Five years ago this month, Lehman Brothers went belly-up. Twelve months earlier there was the run on Northern Rock. Black Wednesday in September 1992 saw Britain's departure from the exchange rate mechanism; the pound left the gold standard in September 1931.
The signs are that September 2013 will also be an interesting month. That's interesting as in scary. There are five potential flashpoints: Syria, the G20 summit, emerging markets, the Federal Reserve meeting to discuss scaling down the US stimulus, and the German election. Any one of them has the potential to damage the global economy.
Let's start with Syria. Military action by the west against the Assad regime could affect growth in two ways: directly, through a higher oil prices and indirectly, by depressing business and consumer confidence.
On the face of it, there is no real reason why the air strikes favoured by Barack Obama should have led to the price of crude rocketing. Syria is not an oil producer and there would only be an impact on oil supplies if Iran tried to close the Strait of Hormuz. This seems unlikely.
But commodity markets quite often ignore economic fundamentals. There is already a Syria premium built into the price of Brent crude, which was changing hands at just under $120 a barrel in London last week. Any hint of the conflict spreading beyond Syria will see the cost of oil rise further, and while talk of $150 a barrel seems overly pessimistic there have been plenty of examples of rumour, fear and speculation combining to ramp up prices. Capital Economics estimates that $150 crude would knock a percentage point off global growth, turning a lacklustre performance into something close to stagnation.
The impact on sentiment is impossible to gauge. There were no long-lasting effects on confidence from the much more extensive military action in Iraq a decade ago, but that was before the Great Recession of the past five years. Businesses looking for a fresh excuse to keep investment plans on hold may find that Syria provides it.
That is more likely to be the case if the G20 summit in St Petersburg ends in acrimony. The conclave of developed and developing countries was supposed to usher in a new epoch of more co-operative global governance, and so it did – for the first 12 months after the G20's inaugural meeting in Washington in 2008.
Since then it has been downhill all the way. G20 countries have failed to agree a joint line on economic stimulus versus austerity, and in the end member countries have simply done their own thing.
But this time the summit could get really nasty if Vladimir Putin cuts up rough over US policy towards Syria, and gets backing from China. On past form, the chances of a big diplomatic bust-up are high, in which case expect markets to respond in their time-honoured fashion by seeking out safe havens in gold, the Swiss franc and the US dollar.
This would exacerbate the problems of the more vulnerable emerging market economies, which have already seen sharp falls in their currencies against the dollar. India, which saw the rupee sink to a record low last week, and Indonesia, which raised interest rates to defend the rupiah, are the most exposed. Both India and Indonesia have deep-seated structural problems and these have been exposed by the Fed's announcement that it was contemplating scaling back – or tapering – its asset purchases under the quantitative easing programme. Money has flowed out of emerging markets and back into the US as a result, prompting fears of a rerun of the Asian currency crisis of 1997.
These fears are almost certainly overblown. The trouble in the late 1990s was caused by countries with fixed exchange regimes trying to cope with vast hot money flows, which came flooding in and then flooded out again. The worst-affected nations had high levels of foreign currency debt and insufficient reserves with which to fight the speculators. None of that holds true today. There has been no repeat of the big capital flows seen in the 1990s, while floating exchange rate regimes and substantial reserves mean emerging market economies are far better placed to defend themselves.
Which is just as well, since collectively the emerging markets are far important to the health of the global economy than they were in 1997. As Nick Parsons of National Australia Bank notes, 30 years ago the advanced world made up 70% of global GDP with emerging markets the other 30%. Today the split is 50-50. As a result, he says, the Fed needs to be careful at its meeting on 18 September.
"US policymakers must increasingly be aware of their global responsibilities. The world economy, more than at any point in history, depends crucially on the success of the emerging market bloc and its fast-growing, very populous nations. In 1998 the world economy withstood the Asia crisis. An emerging market crisis now – with policy stimulus in the developed world largely exhausted – would be a global, not merely a local concern."
Of all September's potential pitfalls, policy error by the Fed is the one troubling markets the most. A year ago that would not have been the case, when pundits would have put the German election on 22 September at the top of their list of concerns. That is no longer the case because fears of a breakup of the euro have faded and Europe has emerged from an 18-month double-dip recession. But the eurozone's economic recovery is fragile and the need for a third bailout for Greece shows that the debt crisis is far from over. A tougher approach to debtor countries by the new government in Berlin would not be helpful.
Action by the Fed is likely to be modest. The US central bank is not proposing to stop stimulating the economy, merely to scale back the amount of support it provides. The likeliest outcome is that asset purchases will initially be tapered from $85bn a month to $75bn (£55bn to £48bn), the equivalent of a doctor slightly reducing the dosage of a powerful drug in the hope that eventually the patient can be taken off medication altogether.
Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the Fed, has adopted a reassuring bedside manner in his dealings with the stimulus junkies of Wall Street. He has talked through exactly what he plans to do and when he plans to do it. He has made it clear that he doesn't expect markets to stand on their own feet overnight. Even so, there is still no certainty about the way things will pan out. Central banks have been using large doses of experimental drugs, and nobody knows for sure whether there will be dangerous side-effects. In a month's time we should have some sort of inkling of just how powerful those side-effects might prove to be.
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Greece rejects new oversight for privatization fund
Greece’s government has ruled out handing over the supervision of its privatization scheme to outside authority. This follows reports that the EU could push for new supervisors after lack-luster sales of state property.
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PHOTOS: Here's One Thing Europeans Do Better
We often talk about the amazing homes in America that just take our breath away thanks to their unique architecture, cool features and perfect locations....
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Beware the Ides of September: a turbulent month for the economy
It brought Lehman Brothers' collapse and Northern Rock's run, now Syria, the Fed Reserve and G20 are among new flashpoints
September is a dangerous month. Five years ago this month, Lehman Brothers went belly-up. Twelve months earlier there was the run on Northern Rock. Black Wednesday in September 1992 saw Britain's departure from the exchange rate mechanism; the pound left the gold standard in September 1931.
The signs are that September 2013 will also be an interesting month. That's interesting as in scary. There are five potential flashpoints: Syria, the G20 summit, emerging markets, the Federal Reserve meeting to discuss scaling down the US stimulus, and the German election. Any one of them has the potential to damage the global economy.
Let's start with Syria. Military action by the west against the Assad regime could affect growth in two ways: directly, through a higher oil prices and indirectly, by depressing business and consumer confidence.
On the face of it, there is no real reason why the air strikes favoured by Barack Obama should have led to the price of crude rocketing. Syria is not an oil producer and there would only be an impact on oil supplies if Iran tried to close the Strait of Hormuz. This seems unlikely.
But commodity markets quite often ignore economic fundamentals. There is already a Syria premium built into the price of Brent crude, which was changing hands at just under $120 a barrel in London last week. Any hint of the conflict spreading beyond Syria will see the cost of oil rise further, and while talk of $150 a barrel seems overly pessimistic there have been plenty of examples of rumour, fear and speculation combining to ramp up prices. Capital Economics estimates that $150 crude would knock a percentage point off global growth, turning a lacklustre performance into something close to stagnation.
The impact on sentiment is impossible to gauge. There were no long-lasting effects on confidence from the much more extensive military action in Iraq a decade ago, but that was before the Great Recession of the past five years. Businesses looking for a fresh excuse to keep investment plans on hold may find that Syria provides it.
That is more likely to be the case if the G20 summit in St Petersburg ends in acrimony. The conclave of developed and developing countries was supposed to usher in a new epoch of more co-operative global governance, and so it did – for the first 12 months after the G20's inaugural meeting in Washington in 2008.
Since then it has been downhill all the way. G20 countries have failed to agree a joint line on economic stimulus versus austerity, and in the end member countries have simply done their own thing.
But this time the summit could get really nasty if Vladimir Putin cuts up rough over US policy towards Syria, and gets backing from China. On past form, the chances of a big diplomatic bust-up are high, in which case expect markets to respond in their time-honoured fashion by seeking out safe havens in gold, the Swiss franc and the US dollar.
This would exacerbate the problems of the more vulnerable emerging market economies, which have already seen sharp falls in their currencies against the dollar. India, which saw the rupee sink to a record low last week, and Indonesia, which raised interest rates to defend the rupiah, are the most exposed. Both India and Indonesia have deep-seated structural problems and these have been exposed by the Fed's announcement that it was contemplating scaling back – or tapering – its asset purchases under the quantitative easing programme. Money has flowed out of emerging markets and back into the US as a result, prompting fears of a rerun of the Asian currency crisis of 1997.
These fears are almost certainly overblown. The trouble in the late 1990s was caused by countries with fixed exchange regimes trying to cope with vast hot money flows, which came flooding in and then flooded out again. The worst-affected nations had high levels of foreign currency debt and insufficient reserves with which to fight the speculators. None of that holds true today. There has been no repeat of the big capital flows seen in the 1990s, while floating exchange rate regimes and substantial reserves mean emerging market economies are far better placed to defend themselves.
Which is just as well, since collectively the emerging markets are far important to the health of the global economy than they were in 1997. As Nick Parsons of National Australia Bank notes, 30 years ago the advanced world made up 70% of global GDP with emerging markets the other 30%. Today the split is 50-50. As a result, he says, the Fed needs to be careful at its meeting on 18 September.
"US policymakers must increasingly be aware of their global responsibilities. The world economy, more than at any point in history, depends crucially on the success of the emerging market bloc and its fast-growing, very populous nations. In 1998 the world economy withstood the Asia crisis. An emerging market crisis now – with policy stimulus in the developed world largely exhausted – would be a global, not merely a local concern."
Of all September's potential pitfalls, policy error by the Fed is the one troubling markets the most. A year ago that would not have been the case, when pundits would have put the German election on 22 September at the top of their list of concerns. That is no longer the case because fears of a breakup of the euro have faded and Europe has emerged from an 18-month double-dip recession. But the eurozone's economic recovery is fragile and the need for a third bailout for Greece shows that the debt crisis is far from over. A tougher approach to debtor countries by the new government in Berlin would not be helpful.
Action by the Fed is likely to be modest. The US central bank is not proposing to stop stimulating the economy, merely to scale back the amount of support it provides. The likeliest outcome is that asset purchases will initially be tapered from $85bn a month to $75bn (£55bn to £48bn), the equivalent of a doctor slightly reducing the dosage of a powerful drug in the hope that eventually the patient can be taken off medication altogether.
Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the Fed, has adopted a reassuring bedside manner in his dealings with the stimulus junkies of Wall Street. He has talked through exactly what he plans to do and when he plans to do it. He has made it clear that he doesn't expect markets to stand on their own feet overnight. Even so, there is still no certainty about the way things will pan out. Central banks have been using large doses of experimental drugs, and nobody knows for sure whether there will be dangerous side-effects. In a month's time we should have some sort of inkling of just how powerful those side-effects might prove to be.
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Greek opposition slams government over Syria issue
The main Greek opposition leader has slammed Prime Minister Antonis Samaras over his foreign policy, amid Greece’s approval to provide military bases to the US military for an attack on Syria. On Saturday, Alexis Tsipras, leader of SYRIZA, censured the ...
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Greece unemployment rate highest in EU: Eurostat
New official data show that Greece has the highest unemployment in the European Union (EU) amid deteriorating economic situation and public discontent across the 28-nation bloc. The data released by EU statistics office Eurostat on Friday revealed that the ...
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Prespa Endless Natural Wealth
Prespa is the name of two freshwater lakes in southeast Europe, shared by Albania, Greece and FYROM. They are the highest tectonic lakes in the Balkans, standing at an altitude of 853 m (2,798 ft). The Great Prespa Lake, also known as Limni Megali Prespa, is divided among Albania, Greece and FYROM. The Small Prespa Lake is shared between Greece and Albania. ';Three Countries, Two Lakes, ...
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Stamos Takes Sides In Greek Yogurt War
Actor John Stamos has picked his "Greek" yogurt. It's made by a French company. FRANKFURT, Germany -Chobani got Americans hooked on Greek yogurt. Now Paris-based Danone wants to slip the stuff into products from dips to dessert in a bid to unseat the market leader. After being blindsided by the upstart, Chobani became the biggest U.S. seller of Greek yogurt two years after ...
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Greece Nixes EU Plan To Control Privatization
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece dismissed a proposal by euro zone officials to hand over the management of its real estate assets to a holding company based overseas, saying the country would stay in charge of its privatization program. The Eurozone's bailout fund, the European Stability Mechanism (ESM), proposed that some Greek real estate assets be transferred to a Greek-owned holding company ...
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US Firm Shoots Cracker Ad in Greece
Kellogg’s company decided to launch its new Mediterranean cracker (a chickpea-based cracker with feta, basil and tomato flavors) from the beautiful Agia Kyriaki in Trikeri, on the Pelion peninsula in Greece, where the shooting of the promotional spot took place. Kellogg’s chosethe picturesque fishing village in Greek mainland after a long scouting in many Mediterranean ports. ...
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Greek privatisation fund 'will not change hands'
Greece's state-run privatisation fund will remain in the country's hands, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said Sunday, following media reports of a possible transfer of the agency's responsibilities to Europe.
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Bulgaria, Greece to Open Makaza Border Point Sept 9
Novinite.comBulgaria, Greece to Open Makaza Border Point Sept 9Novinite.comBulgaria, Greece to Open Makaza Border Point Sept 9: Bulgaria, Greece to Open The road between Kardzhali (A) and Podkova (marked in orange) completed the Kardzhali-Makaza Pass (B) road, from the Danube-Aegean corridor through Bulgarian territory.
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USA welcomes ‘wretched refuse’—three unwanted Greek street dogs
While three dogs and I traveled together from the quiet Greek island of Kefalonia to the bustling American state of California a few weeks ago—a long, complicated back- and brain-buster of a journey via land, sea, and air that spanned several days—I ...
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Marborough's Saints Anargyroi church hosts annual Grecian Festival
Traditional Greek dancing, Greek food and camaraderie were the big draws at the Saints Anargyroi Annual Grecian Festival on Saturday.
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A taste of Greek culture (GALLERY)
OKALOOSA ISLAND —As traditional Greek music filled the air, children and a few brave adults danced in a circle in the Emerald Coast Convention Center's ballroom. Soon after, the children got a chance to take over the mic. “Opa!” a child ...
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Greek Hieroglyphics Come To Life
Keys must be acquired to unlock doors, ladders must be climbed while blocking incoming arrows, and so on. Navigating the world feels reminiscent of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. You can tackle mission objective in any order you choose ...
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Novel hotel-ranking website targets Chinese tourists for Greek holidays
Novel hotel-ranking website targets Chinese tourists for Greek holidaysSouth China Morning PostThe quirks of mainland tourists are being celebrated rather than ridiculed in a novel hotel-ranking system that aims to attract Chinese holidaymakers to debt-ridden Greece. The ranking on travel website Feel Like Home uses dragons instead of stars to ...
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Sue LaRosa, a teacher in the Greece Central School District, hiked more than ...
Sue LaRosa, a teacher in the Greece Central School District, hiked more than ...Rochester Democrat and ChronicleSue LaRosa, a teacher in the Greece school district, spent the summer hiking through Spain. She lived out of her backpack for 40 days, covering 500 miles. / CARLOS ORTIZ/ / staff photographer ...
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Greek organizations exist on, off Milledge
Greek organizations exist on, off MilledgeRed and BlackKyle Hickox (left), Alpha Kappa Psi University of Georgia chapter president, and executive vice president Will Elliot lead an executive board meeting at Alpha Kappa Psi in Athens, Ga., on Monday, Aug. 26, 2013. (photo/David C Bristow, ...and more »
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