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How the world sees Greece
Friday, November 1, 2013
Would-be sorority rallies support to lift ban at Dixie State
GEORGE — A petition to lift the ban against Greek organizations at Dixie State ... "It was really important to me, the sisterhood, the leadership experience, and the home-away-from-home atmosphere," said Klabanoff, who said she has wanted to pledge ...
Deadly shooting outside Greek far-right’s office
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At least two people were killed in a drive-by shooting in the Greek capital of Athens on Friday just outside the offices of the country’s far-right Golden Dawn party, police source said.
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Shooting kills 2 Golden Dawn members in Greece
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A drive-by shooting killed two members of Greece's Nazi-inspired Golden Dawn party and wounded one outside a party office in Athens on Friday night, officials said.
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Greek stock market hottest in the world
Greek stocks, which were once shunned by investors concerned that a default would force the country out of the euro zone, are beating almost every market in the world as a six-year recession eases and new investors consider purchases. Since June 5 last ...
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One in Three Women Victim of Domestic Violence
A new study conducted this summer by the General Secretariat for Gender Equality showed a 47% increase in cases of domestic violence against women in Greece. At the opening ceremony of the new Women’s Support and Consultation Center in Kavala, Vaso Kollia the General Secretary for Gender Equality mentioned that domestic violence can come in […]
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Aegean Airlines Adds 15 New Destinations
The company announced plans to strengthen its fleet and flying schedule up to the end of 2014, following the absorption of Olympic Air, which will lead to annual cost savings of 35 million euros, mostly from merging the two carriers’ administrative operations. The carrier’s plans for next year concern the addition of five new aircraft […]
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New Bill Imposes Tough Penalties on Racism
Haralambos Athanassiou, the Greek Minister of Justice, submitted a bill that foresees tough penalties for racist behaviors and crimes, to the General Accounting Office . This anti-racism bill is a combination of proposals submitted by different parties. It is expected to be finalized and submitted to the Parliament for approval. According to the bill, racist […]
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Karchimakis: Instigating Act of Infringement of State Secrets
Michalis Karchimakis, former representative of PASOK is called to plead on November 8th, in front of the 3rd magistrate, Dimitris Foukas who handles the case of interceptions and of the alleged plan to assassinate former Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis. Mr. Karchimakis, according to Mega Channel, will plead for instigating the criminal act of infringement of […]
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Nutriat-Katselis Declares Bankruptcy
Nutriart (KATSELIS) declared bankruptcy yesterday. The next step is to find a liquidator. The bankruptcy petition was filed in June 2013 and was tried in early autumn, the decision was quickly made. The main reasons for which one of the largest companies in the Greek food industry came to an impasse, were the economic crisis, […]
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Maria Callas’ House in Need of Repair
Maria Calla’s house, a neoclassical building on 61 Patision and Skaramaga street, is being damaged year after year. The only hope for its rescue, is the interest of Athens Municipality. After being questioned from Elias Panagiotaros, MP of Golden Dawn, Yannis Vroutsis said “recently, Athens Municipality has shown interest towards the building and the administration […]
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Shooting At Golden Dawn Office, Two Dead
Greek police said that two people were killed were reported killed in a shooting at the Neo Iraklion office of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party in Athens on Nov. 1. Officials said one was also wounded wounded when two people on a motorcycle sprayed fire at the office. Initial reports said one of those killed […]
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AUEB Among Top Business Schools in the World
The Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB) in Athens, Greece, was listed among the top business schools in the world according to Eduniversal Business Schools Ranking Results. AUEB ranks 123rd, a better ranking than in the last Eduniversal results when it ranked 230th. It should also be noted that in the above mentioned annual […]
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Schulz: Apologizing is Not Enough
The president of the European Parliament, Martin Schulz, when speaking to the Italian newspaper La Republica about the tough austerity measures, said that “apologizing is not enough, someone has to take certain responsibilities.” Schulz explained, that at the time, austerity programs had been presented as the only solution, but now the IMF claims that the impact […]
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Mutu and Pantilimon dropped by Romania for Greece playoff
(Reuters) - Striker Adrian Mutu and goalkeeper Costel Pantilimon have been dropped for Romania's 2014 World Cup playoff against Greece, the Romanian football federation (FRF) said on Friday. Coach Victor Piturca has called up 15 overseas players ...
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Greek government unveils plans to toughen anti-racism laws, outlaw Holocaust denial
ATHENS, Greece - The Greek government has unveiled plans to toughen laws against racism and prohibit "malevolent" denial of the Holocaust, amid an increase in racist violence. The draft legislation presented by the Justice Ministry on Friday ...
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Greek police: 2 men shot, believed dead outside Athens office of Nazi-inspired party
ATHENS, Greece — Greek police say two men have been shot and are believed dead in a drive-by shooting outside an office of the far-right, Nazi-inspired Golden Dawn party in Athens. A party statement says two men aged 20 and 23 have been shot dead and a ...
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Greek police: 2 shot near Golden Dawn office
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek police say two men have been shot and are believed dead in a drive-by shooting outside an office of the far-right, Nazi-inspired Golden Dawn party in Athens.
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Greece film festival caps 20-year promotion of Balkan cinema
Athens (AFP) - Greece's top movie event, the Thessaloniki international film festival, will feature 32 Balkan films to cap a 20-year contribution to the region when it opens Friday, an organiser said.
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Police seek perpetrator of fatal stabbing in Mesolongi
Police in Mesolongi, western Greece, on Friday were seeking a 30-year-old Albanian national who fatally stabbed a 21-year-old compatriot following a brawl in a cafe in the village of Kefalovrysi the night before.
According to sources, the two men argued a... ...
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Gov't aims to raise 1 billion euros by issuing T-bills next Tuesday
Greece plans to sell 1 billion euros by issuing six-month treasury bills next Tuesday, the Public Debt Management Agency (PDMA) said on Friday.
The Greek Finance Ministry aims to raise 1 billion euros through the debt issue, according to the PDMA.... ...
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Greek manufacturing activity shrinks faster in October, survey shows
Greek manufacturing activity shrank at a faster pace in October, suggesting the ailing sector is unlikely to recover this year, a survey showed on Friday.
The Markit index of manufacturing sentiment dipped to 47.3 in October from 47.5 a month earlier. It ... ...
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Minister heralds crackdown on racist violence in Greek schools
Deputy Education Minister Symeon Kedikoglou on Friday heralded the activation of an observatory to crack down on violence in schools and in particular on racially-motivated violence which has been widely linked to the infiltration of the neofascist Golden... ...
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Committee imposes 800,000 euros in fines for pre-election violations in 2010
Greece's committee for inspections for election spending on Friday imposed a total of 800,000 euros in fines for violations ahead of local authority elections in 2010.
The fines relate to 87 parties of varying sizes which were found to have either exceede... ...
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Greek restaurant Funky Gourmet ranks in world's top 10
Leading travel website TripAdvisor has ranked an Athenian restaurant, Funky Gourmet, among the world's top 10 best eateries in its most recent review, which is topped by Maison Lameloise in the Burgundy region of France.
The selections are based on how ma... ...
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Bonhams Sale Honors Greek Heroism
Bonhams sale of Greek art features several works which refer to the heroism of a mythical past, and reflect the artists’ view of painting as the only way to explain what it means to be Greek in the modern world. The exposition will take place ...
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Greek Festival of Corpus Christi to celebrate 50 years of fun, food, friendship
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the annual Greek Festival of Corpus Christi, St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church again welcomes the community to partake in festivities, family fun — and of course — food.
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Christmas Customs in Greece
Christmas Customs in Greece: Christmas is one of the most celebrated, if not the most celebrated holiday of the year. It doesn't matter what has happened the rest of the year, how old you are or whether you are male or female, Chritsmas is one of the best ...
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Annual Greek festival kicks off Friday
Greek food and culture will be the theme on W. Preston Street in Baltimore this weekend. The 42nd annual Greek food and cultural festival kicks off Friday at 11 a.m., just in time for lunch.
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The History of Greece
By the time the Dark Ages ended the Phoenicians had re-injected culture back into Greek society. Ancient Greece flourished; the first Olympic Games were held in 776 BC, language, politics, education, philosophy, art and architecture were highly prevalent ...
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The new Saint Nicholas Church
THE NEW YORK TIMES Published: October A gleaming, monumental and unmistakable symbol of Orthodox Christianity would rise at the south end of the National September 11 Memorial under plans drawn up for the new St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church. The church, which will include a nondenominational bereavement center, will stand in sharp contrast with its predecessor, next to the World Trade Center. ...
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10000 possible clues after mystery blonde girl found in Greece
Authorities in Greece are asking for international assistance to identify a four-year old girl who was found living in a Roma camp with a couple who are charged with abducting her from her birth parents. NBC's Natalie Morales ...
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AGORA Which Party Should You Vote for in 2014
From time to time, an issue emerges and inspires various minds to converge, often at odds with one another, to discuss it. Hopefully, collective enlightenment will result from such conversations. The Ancient Greeks did that in the Agora, the original marketplace of ideas, and we, their modern-day descendants, aspire to continue that tradition. ...
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Greece Tries to Rein in Fake Goods Sellers
Many of those selling counterfeit goods on the streets of Greece are immigrants from Africa. ATHENS - Senegalese immigrant Musa Sezk, 32, has been trying to make a living for years by selling inexpensive, counterfeit watches on the streets of Athens. Sezk is one of thousands of African and Asian immigrants, particularly from Pakistan and Bangladesh, who place their merchandise on blankets on ...
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Departing Sophianou Showed The Flag for Cyprus
Cypriot Consul-General in New York Koula Sophianou NEW YORK - The Greek and Cypriot-American communities in the New York Metropolitan Area are preparing for a holiday farewell to the woman who has come to embody the dignity amid struggle of the people of Cyprus by making real the situations and issues about which Greek Americans are not always well informed.. Cyprus' Consul General Koula ...
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Can Young Entrepreneurs Save Greece Yet
(Photo/Reuters/John Kolesidis) People wait for their turn outside a Greek Manpower Employment Organisation (OAED) office in an Athens suburb October 10, 2013. ATHENS (Reuters) - Evgenia Papadopoulou runs a Pilates studio in downtown Athens, and over the past three years she has cut her staff from seven to three. Business is down 40 percent, while her studio's taxes, insurance and electricity ...
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Suddenly Greek Stocks Are Hot Investment
Greek stocks, once shunned by investors concerned that a default would force the nation out of the euro, are beating almost every market in the world as a six-year recession eases and new investors consider purchases. Since June 5, 2012, two weeks before MSCI Inc. gave notice it may reclassify Greece as an emerging market, the country's ASE Index (ASE) has surged 146 percent, trimming the ...
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Famous Patisserie in Thessaloniki Goes Bankrupt
The founder of the famous patisserie “Agapitos” in Thessaloniki, Agapitos Valogiorgis, was a hardworking and ambitious person working his whole life tirelessly to make his dream a reality. His name was well-known in Thessaloniki as many celebrities were frequent clients. After Valogiorigis death in 2002, his grandchildren created a franchising company consisting of 11 branches […]
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Athens Refutes Information about Troika’s Visit
The Ministry of Finance refutes the information and insists that the arrival of the Troika will be held as scheduled, on Monday evening, while on Tuesday, Troika will have a meeting with Finance Minister, Yannis Stournaras. It was hinted that the agitation of the topic may be aiming at a different type of ”games abroad,” […]
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Hybrid Solar Eclipse Visible in Greece
At Sunday noon, November 3 2013, there is going to be the opportunity to observe an eclipse from Greece. In Greece the eclipse, will be visible as a partial eclipse with little coverage of the solar disk of the Moon. Specifically, depending on the latitude, the moon will cover up to 10% of the solar […]
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Farmers vs. Homeowners On Property Tax
Just a day after Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, the New Democracy Conservative leader and his coalition partner and Deputy Premier, PASOK chief Evangelos Venizelos said they would make changes to an onerous property tax bill that was causing an alleged rebellion among their lawmakers, the government has decided to push it through anyway. That […]
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And That Makes Three: Greece Gets Another Market Demotion
Supposedly, bad things come in threes. That is the case for Greece’s once tenuous grasp on developed market status because on Thursday, S&P Dow Jones Indices became the third major index provider this year to demote the “G” in the infamous ...
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Ron the Greek Scratched From North America’s Richest Horse Race
Ron the Greek, winner of the Jockey Club Gold Cup, was scratched from the $5 million Breeders’ Cup Classic when the thoroughbred developed a crack in his right front hoof from an abscess. Eleven entries, including favorite Game On Dude, will ...
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Church plans scaled-back and food-focused Greek fest
“There will be activities for the kids. This will be totally family-oriented,” Petalas ... salad and roll and the pastichio will include salad and roll. A fish dinner cooked Greek style and with Greek rice, salad and roll, will be available Friday ...
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Man cleared for helping households get power back
The man who claims to have led the way in reconnecting people’s electricity after it had been cut off due to unpaid bills was cleared of wrongdoing by a court in Veria, northern Greece, on Thursday.
Nikos Aslanoglou led a group of citizens in the Macedoni... ...
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Stocks enjoy best month since 2010
This October was the Greek bourse’s best month in more than three years (39 months), as the benchmark index had climbed a remarkable 17.27 percent during the period by the end of Thursday’s session. Banks fared even better, adding 26.92 percent.
The Athen... ...
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Troika expected in Athens early next week, gov't says
Representatives of Greece’s troika of international creditors – the European Commission, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund – will return to Athens early next week as originally planned, government sources said on Thursday, rebuffing re... ...
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Aris, Xanthi and Veria suffer Cup upsets
More top-flight teams suffered upsets in the Greek Cup on Thursday as Aris, Xanthi and Veria dropped out of the competition to second-division clubs Olympiakos Volou, Iraklis Thessalonikis and Iraklis Psahnon respectively.
Olympiakos Volou had beaten Supe... ...
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Business regulation: Reform school
REFORM is a universal medicine urged upon struggling economies by liberal institutions (even The Economist has been known to prescribe it on occasion). When a country has been messed up long enough, reform becomes “much needed”. Reform means many things, of course, from cutting budget deficits to improving education. But a big part of it concerns business regulation, which reflects how much a country encourages companies and how much microeconomic distortion there is to economic activity. Such regulation is also measurable across boundaries, so one country can be compared with another. So what does this year’s survey of global business regulation by the World Bank (“Doing Business 2014”) reveal about which countries most need “much needed reform”—and which might not?Italy and Greece are high on everyone’s list of places that need to change a lot, and the World Bank’s list confirms it. They come a lowly 65th and 72nd respectively, out of 189 countries. The same is true, more or less, of France (38th on the list) and Spain (52nd), two fellow euro-sufferers.Germany, on the other hand, might not be in such urgent need of change, to judge by this measure. It comes 21st on the World Bank’s list, immediately after the small Asian, Nordic and English-speaking countries that are always found at the top of the table. This puts Germany above such paragons of...
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Business in Greece: Outrageous fortune
APOSTOLOS KAISIDIS is thankful that in 2008, after nearly half a century dealing in cars, his family firm moved out of Thessaloniki, Greece’s second-largest city, to a cheaper place 50km away, and started repairing vehicles as well as selling them. If it hadn’t, “we would probably be bankrupt now,” he says. In crisis-ridden Greece, companies have had to adapt to survive.Only about 50,000 new cars are expected to be bought in Greece this year, down from 220,000 in 2009, partly because loans are scarce. But with more ageing bangers on the roads, the repairs side of his business has been busy.Since April 2008 the number of businesses registered with IKA, Greece’s biggest social-security fund, has dropped by 119,000, or 38%. In such a brutal climate, businesses have had to do much more than just tighten their belts.Relocating is one popular survival strategy. Whereas Mr Kaisidis has moved his firm out to the sticks to cut costs, Anna Maria Mazaraki, the owner of nine jewellery shops in Athens, is taking advantage of weak commercial rents and moving some stores to more upmarket sites. That ensures higher footfall and gives customers the impression she must be doing well, she says.Others are moving their headquarters—but not necessarily their operations—out of Greece, to get access to cheaper funding. Last year Fage, the country’s leading purveyor of yogurt, and Coca-Cola...
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