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How the world sees Greece
Monday, December 30, 2013
Greek PM Message for the New Year
The Greek Prime Minister, Antonis Samaras stated during his message for the New Year that, “The difficult part is behind us, 2014 will be the first year of growth. In 2014, Greece will venture out to the markets. In the new year, the Greek ...
Greece to exit EU/IMF bailout deal in 2014 – PM
In 2010, the European Union ... However, the money injection didn’t work - Greece still found itself on the brink of exiting the eurozone in 2012. One year after the first bailout, the country was handed a second rescue package worth 130 ...
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Greek prime minister: 'no more financial aid needed after bailout'
Greek ReporterGreek prime minister: 'no more financial aid needed after bailout'Deutsche WelleGreek prime minister: 'no more financial aid needed after bailout'. Greece will need no further financial bailout agreements from next year, according to its prime minister. The financially troubled country's leader announced it will leave its EU-IMF ...Greek PM Message for the New YearGreek ReporterGreece will leave bailout scheme in 2014, says prime ministerThe GuardianGreece will require no further aid after bailout exit: PMThe New Age OnlineRT (blog)all 12 news articles »
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Greece on track for bailout exit in 2014
Greece's PM says the country will exit its EU-IMF bailout agreement in 2014 and will not need further loans.
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For Bournias family, making baklava is a 40-year tradition
Name: Nick PhillipsItem price: News, Food, Detroit Greek CommunityLocation: Detroit, MIDescription:For Bournias family, making baklava is a 40-year tradition
For more than 40 years, Angie Bournias of Grosse Pointe Shores has made baklava for Christmas.
She learned how to make the traditional Greek pastry from her late father-in-law, Nick Bournias.
“He told about crumpling up the phyllo sheet and baking the baklava slow in a 325-degree oven,” she says.
Since then, Bournias has carried on the tradition and now makes it with her grandchildren.
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“This is one of those family recipes that are best taught to the children while making it together,” says Bournias. “They love the job of brushing the butter, and as they grow older, become meticulous with the job.”
Bournias says she hopes “they will remember those little tips and carry it on.”
Bournias’ tips: Use lemon juice in the syrup to prevent it from crystallizing. And be sure to keep the phyllo covered to prevent it from drying out. Baking the baklava in a low oven ensures that it bakes evenly, doesn’t brown too much on the top or bottom and allows the layers in between to crisp.
Nick’s Baklava
Makes: About 30 pieces / Preparation time: 1 hour
Total time: 2 hours (not all active time)
SYRUP 2 cups sugar 2 cups water 1 tablespoon lemon juice 1 stick cinnamon 1⁄3 cup honey BAKLAVA 4 cups chopped walnuts (6 cups walnut halves equals this amount), or use chopped almonds, pecans or pistachios 1½ cups granulated sugar 1½ teaspoons ground cinnamon l pound phyllo dough, thawed 3 sticks (or more as needed) unsalted butter, melted
Have ready a 9-by-13-inch rectangular stainless, glass or heavy aluminum foil baking pan.
To make the syrup: In a saucepan combine all the syrup ingredients and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer for 40 minutes. Remove from heat and set aside to cool.
Meanwhile, make the baklava. Preheat the oven to 325 degrees. In a large bowl combine the nuts, sugar and cinnamon. Taste the mixture and make sure it has the right balance of cinnamon. Set aside.
Lay out the thawed phyllo and cover with a clean kitchen towel.
Using a pastry brush, brush pan bottom and sides evenly with butter; place one sheet of phyllo in the pan, brush again. Add 3 more sheets, brushing each one with the butter. Crumple a phyllo sheet into smaller pieces and place on top of the 4 buttered sheets. Add one more sheet and brush with butter again. Sprinkle one-quarter of the nut mixture evenly over entire pan.
Repeat process with phyllo sheets, butter, crumpled phyllo sheet, another phyllo sheet and then the nut mixture so that you have four layers of nuts. Finish pan with another phyllo layer, butter, phyllo, butter, crumpled phyllo, and two more top layers. Tuck sides all around the pan under, brush again with butter.
Before baking, use a sharp knife to cut through the baklava into the size pieces you want. At this point the baklava can be frozen, unbaked. (When ready to use, place in a 325-degree oven without thawing.)
Bake until golden brown, about 45 minutes to 1 hour. Remove from the oven and pour the cooled syrup evenly over the hot pan directly from the oven. It will sizzle and rise up. Do not cover. When cool, loosely cover with foil.
From Angie Bournias, Grosse Pointe Shores.
Tested by Susan Selasky for the Free Press Test Kitchen. Nutrition information not available.Images:
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Troy-Based Altair to Expand in Greece and Israel
Name: Nick PhillipsItem price: Business news, Detroit Greek CommunityLocation: Detroit, MIDescription:Troy-Based Altair to Expand in Greece and Israel
POSTED ON WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2013 DBUSINESS DAILY NEWS
Altair will open two offices in the Mediterranean: Altair Hellenic in Thessaloniki, Greece, and Altair Israel in Tel Aviv, Israel. The locations, announced Tuesday, will provide customers in the region with multi-disciplinary computer-aided engineering support for extrusion, stamping, forging, resin transfer molding, and crash simulations.
“Our offices in Greece and Israel will be very significant for Altair’s growth,” says James Scapa, chairman and CEO of Troy-based Altair. “The Hellenic region is particularly strong in the use of modeling and visualization tools, with a concentration of highly skilled talent. The Israeli region is a leader in the use of solvers, especially with respect to high-velocity impact and crash.”
Scapa says the Tel Aviv office will focus on defense applications, while Altair Hellenic will center on software development, benchmarking services, and engineering project support to European businesses.
Lazaros Tsioraklidis, who will oversee the Hellenic office, says Altair’s presence in Greece will provide an opportunity for the area to retain local talent.
“The uncertainty of the Greek economy has led many students to move to other countries to find a job,” Tsioraklidis says. “In this environment, it is the right time for a very stable company like Altair to begin offering career opportunities to local talent, including the excellent pool of engineering students and other very skilled engineers in and around Thessaloniki.”
Both offices, whose customers include Hellenic Aerospace, will maintain a focus on strategic software development in conjunction with leading universities and outside partners.
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Gunmen fire on ambassador's home
Gunmen fire on ambassador's homeNEWS.com.auAs Greece's biggest bailout lender, Germany is often the subject of strong criticism in the country, which is suffering through a sixth year of recession and tough austerity measures imposed as a condition of its rescue loans. Mr Dold, a 55-year-old ...
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Athens and Berlin condemn gun attack
Leaders vow assault on envoy’s Athens residence will not damage relations as Greece prepares to take over the rotating presidency of the EU
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Greece will leave bailout scheme in 2014, says prime minister
Antonis Samaras told long-suffering Greeks that the end of the country's financial assistance plan was in sight
Greece will exit its bailout programme next year without needing a third aid package, the country's prime minister announced on Monday as he insisted that citizens could look to 2014 with confidence.
Antonis Samaras told long-suffering Greeks that the end of the country's financial assistance plan was in sight, after almost four years of painful austerity, and that the new year would bring the prospect of normality.
"In 2014 we will make the big step to exit the loan agreement," Samaras said in a nationally televised address. "In 2014, Greece will venture out to the markets again [and] start becoming a normal country," he added. "In the new year, Greek debt will be officially declared viable, meaning there will be no need for new loans and new bailout agreements."
Ireland left its own bailout programme earlier this month, but a Greek exit would be a major milestone in the financial crisis that began to grip the eurozone in the spring of 2010. Greece has already received two aid packages, with around €130bn (£109bn) wiped off its debt pile in 2012.
Greece is expected to finally leave recession in 2014, and investor confidence in the country has grown through the last year. The yield, or interest rate, on its 10-year bonds has fallen to around 8% – compared with 30% at the peak of the crisis – as traders regained faith that the debt would be repaid. Greek government bonds were one of the best-performing assets in 2013, returning 47%.
Analysts, though, are sceptical that Greece will not need further aid next year. It has still not reached agreement with its international lenders over the size of its fiscal shortfall in next year's budget – with troika officials pushing Athens to make further painful cutbacks.
Samaras was elected eighteen months ago, and much of his time in office has been dominated by public anger created by the unpopular austerity measures demanded in return for the country's loans. Political instability has been a constant threat, with his majority now whittled down to 153 of the 300 seats in parliament.
Record unemployment and pay cuts has pushed prices down across the country, and this punishing 'internal devaluation' may continue in next year.
"In Greece, marked deflation has been evident since March and is likely to continue for some time to come," predicted Howard Archer of IHS Global Insight.
Samaras was speaking just two days before Greece assumes the rotating presidency of the EU. There has been concern that Athens' six-month stint could be overshadowed by further bailout negotiations.
Zsolt Darvas, an economist and senior fellow at the Bruegel Institute in Brussels, has predicted that the Greek presidency could be a rough ride:
"It will be very difficult for Greece due to its (internal) problems, its public administration inefficiency and the time pressure imposed by the European Parliament elections," Darvas told AFP.
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From Gotham to Greek Assassin: BATWOMAN's HADEN BLACKMAN Steps In ...
From Gotham to Greek Assassin: BATWOMAN's HADEN BLACKMAN Steps In ...NewsaramaEarlier this year Marvel announced with aplomb that writer Zeb Wells and artist Mike Del Mundo would be taking the Greek assassin into new territory with a new ongoing series in 2014. Never fear true believers, the Elektra series is still on – but with ...and more »
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Shots fired from automatic weapons at home of German ambassador in Greece
Source: www.independent.co.uk - Monday, December 30, 2013 Gunmen opened fire on the home of the German ambassador in Greece last night, with anti-terror police recovering more 60 bullets from the scene. All Related
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Greece won't need more loans, says Prime Minister
Telegraph.co.ukGreece won't need more loans, says Prime MinisterTelegraph.co.ukGreece will exit its EU-IMF bailout agreement as scheduled in 2014 and will require no further loans, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras has said. "In 2014 we will make the big step to exit the loan agreement," Mr Samaras said in a nationally televised ...Study: Extreme Poverty Rises in GreeceGreek ReporterAnalysts wonder how Greece can take the reins of the European Union and ...Balkans.com Business NewsCrisis in Greece: Capitalism on TrialMainstreamANSAmed -GlobalPostall 13 news articles »
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Gunmen spray German ambassador's residence in Greece
Bullet holes are seen on the wall as German Ambassador in Greece, Wolfgang Dold, stands at his residence's balcony following an attack by unknown gunmen Photo: Reuters Assailants raked the German ambassador's residence in Athens with gunfire in an attack ...
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Greek prison system labelled 'inhumane' by European court
Greece suffers the worst prison overcrowding in the European Union, according to figures in the Council of Europe's latest annual prison report, published in May. Inmate numbers reached a record high this year, and many prisons simply refuse to accept new arrivals.
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Greece eyes return to bond markets in 2nd half of 2014
Bailed-out Greece is hoping to return to bond markets in the second half of 2014 -- but only if growth and a primary budget surplus permits, its finance minister said Sunday. "We are preparing a return to the markets in the second half of 2014," Yannis Stournaras said in an interview published in the Realnews weekly. But he stressed that was conditional on economic growth and a budget surplus ...
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Greece 'won't require new aid after bailout exit': PM
Greece will exit its EU-IMF bailout agreement as scheduled in 2014 and will require no further loans, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said on Monday. "In 2014 we will make the big step to exit the loan agreement," Samaras said in a nationally televised address. Greece was first bailed out by the European Union, the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank for 110 billion euros ...
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Greek Ex-Minister Gets Suspended Jail Term
Greek ReporterGreek Ex-Minister Gets Suspended Jail TermABC NewsGreek Ex-Minister Gets Suspended Jail Term. ATHENS, Greece December 30, 2013 (AP). Associated Press. A former transport minister in Greece has received a four-year suspended sentence for driving an uninsured luxury car with fake license plates in an ...Greek ex-transport minister given 4-year suspended jail sentence over fake car ...Fox Newsall 27 news articles »
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Greek Prison System Collapsing _ Labeled 'Inhuman'
Washington PostGreek Prison System Collapsing _ Labeled 'Inhuman'ABC NewsThe Greek government says it is trying to improve the situation. During a recent parliamentary debate, Justice Minister Haralambos Athanasiou said the government is trying to build new prisons and reduce crowding. And earlier this year, Costas ...Greek prison system collapsingWashington Postall 35 news articles »
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Our 10 Most Read in 2013: Greece, Cyprus, Tourist Tips and Belgium
Our 10 Most Read in 2013: Greece, Cyprus, Tourist Tips and BelgiumWall Street Journal (blog)In 2013, as the intensity of the euro-zone crisis abated, so the subject matter of our Real Time Brussels blog shifted. In terms of our most-read posts, Greece is still represented, as it was in 2010, 2011 and 2012, but it has slipped down our most ...
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Where in the world to invest for a happy new year
Opinions vary, but the economic forecast for 2014 is generally optimistic. We ask the experts for tips on the growth areas
The start of the new year is a time to focus on making a few changes in your life. And for savvy investors that should mean an opportunity to rejig your portfolio. The past year has been good for stock markets, with the FTSE 100 rising by 15%; the wider FTSE All-Share going up by 17%; and the US S&P 500 soaring by 27%. Predicting how markets will perform in 2014 is difficult. "But there are plenty of optimists who believe further gains can be made by picking the most promising regions as economic recovery takes hold," says Adrian Lowcock from financial adviser Hargreaves Lansdown. Here are some expert tips.
The UKMost analysts and fund managers believe there is still potential to make money from UK shares as economic conditions improve. Some are even predicting that the FTSE 100 will hit a new all-time high in 2014, surpassing the 6950 it reached at the height of the dotcom boom in December 1999.
Guy Foster from stockbrokers Brewin Dolphin forecasts that the FTSE 100 will reach 7400 by the end of 2014. Capital Economics, meanwhile, says that the FTSE 100 could hit 7200, while analysts at Citigroup expect the index to reach 8000 next year as fears about a break-up of the eurozone recede while conditions for companies improve. However, not all experts share this optimism.
Jason Hollands from investment adviser Bestinvest sounds a note of caution. "Household debt has been rocketing while the amount people are saving has slumped against a backdrop of ultra-low interest rates," he says. "Even a small rise in interest rates could prove a shock for the economy and the market." Brian Dennehy of FundExpert.co.uk adds: "If the over-valued US stock market slumps it could bring most, if not all, global markets down with it. Also, if bond markets end a 30-year bull run, then all markets could take fright."
To spread risk you could invest through a pooled fund holding a variety of UK shares and sectors. Hollands recommends Liontrust Special Situations, which invests across a range of small, medium-sized and large companies, while Patrick Connolly from financial advisers Chase de Vere favours Cazenove UK Opportunities, Investec UK Special Situations and Rathbone Income.
EuropeEurope is the region most widely tipped to outperform in 2014, according to a survey by the Association of Investment Companies, despite it including plenty of out-of-favour countries such as Greece and Ireland. "All of the negative sentiment surrounding the eurozone doesn't change the fact that many of its companies are performing well, making profits and have large amounts of cash on their balance sheets," says Connolly.
He adds that 50% of European company revenue comes from outside of Europe. Lockcock says: "As the fear of euro-collapse recedes, European fund managers have been increasingly turning towards companies which are more likely to benefit from a recovery in Europe."
However, Connolly warns that European shares are the most vulnerable to shocks in the global economic recovery, and a huge debt burden remains. If you want to take a punt on Europe in 2014, Mike Green, Investment Service Manager at Cavendish Online, says a good pick is Ignis European Smaller Companies. "This has performed consistently well," he says. Meanwhile Lowcock likes Threadneedle European Select and Henderson European Special Situations.
Emerging marketsSome emerging markets could stage a comeback, say experts. Thomas Becket, chief investment officer at PSigma investment managers, points towards China as offering opportunity for investors next year, as it is "under-valued, under-appreciated and under-owned".
India is the favourite for Dennehy. "There is an election next year, and a sense that a pro-business government might take power, a unique positive.
"Also, the new boss of their central bank has pleasantly surprised observers with an outline of much-needed reforms, and India has a huge youthful population which can spur economic growth over the long term."
Edward Bland, director and head of research at Duncan Lawrie Private Bank, also picks India for 2014. "It will be a very interesting year that could potentially set the course for the next decade," he says.
However, Darius McDermott, from execution-only brokers Chelsea Financial Services, favours Brazil, believing it could benefit from hosting the World Cup. "The feelgood factor may lift both spirits and the market in the short term," he says.
Investors should see all emerging markets as a long-term growth story rather than offering potential for swift gains, stresses Kerry Craig, global market strategist at JP Morgan Asset Management. "The next year might still be rocky for many of these economies, but there is no denying their importance in global growth," he says.
To spread your bets among different emerging market economies you could opt for a fund such as Schroder Global Emerging Markets or JP Morgan Emerging Markets, says Connolly.
JapanIts market stormed ahead in 2013 and many experts believe it will continue to thrive. Last month marked the first anniversary of Shinzo Abe's election as prime minister, and it was his economic recovery plan, dubbed Abenomics, that put Japanese shares among the best performers over the past year.
However, shares remain about 50% below their peak in December 1989, suggesting there is further room for growth. Becket says: "Next year we think it could be the year of the Asian equity; a continuation of Japan's stock market renaissance.
"You almost certainly won't get the fireworks that we enjoyed in 2013, but there is absolutely no reason that markets can't appreciate by a further 15%." McDermott also favours Japan and likes GLG Japan Core Alpha, while Becket likes Lazard Strategic Japanese Equity.
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Schaeuble: Greek EU presidency is an opportunity for Greece and for Europe
Greek ReporterSchaeuble: Greek EU presidency is an opportunity for Greece and for EuropeFXstreet.comFXstreet.com (Łódź) - German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said on Monday in an interview for the Bild newspaper that Greece would get all the support it needs from the European Union and that taking over the EU presidency will be a "huge ...Schaeuble: 'Europe Won't Abandon Greece'Greek ReporterEurope won't turn its back on Greece: SchaeubleBusiness RecorderEurope Won't Let Down Greece, Says German Finance Minister -ReportWall Street Journalall 13 news articles »
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Greek Companies Anxious About Turkish Political Instability
The radical developments on the political scenery of Turkey lately have ... They added that there is no problem with their investments in Turkey, but they do not deny that the continuous “fall” of the lira has a negative impact on Greek ...
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NCH Capital Gets Green Light to Develop Greek Island Resort
NCH Capital Inc., a U.S. private- equity firm, won permission from the Greek government to build a tourist resort on the island of Corfu.
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Greek gov't condemns attack on German ambassador's house
Greek government on Monday strongly condemned the attack on the German ambassador's residence here, calling it an act of terrorism aimed at damaging Greece's image ahead of it assuming the rotating EU presidency.
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Shots fired at German envoy's residence in Athens; no injuries
ATHENS, Greece, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Nearly two-dozen shots were fired at the gate of the German ambassador's residence in northeastern Athens, Greece, Monday, officials said. No one was injured.
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Britain's smashing of Greek democracy
Socialist ResistanceBritain's smashing of Greek democracySocialist ResistanceIn 1944, the communist-led resistance movement was poised for victory. The Greek ruling elite was tainted by passivity and collaboration with the Nazi occupation. Backed first by Britain and then the USA, it launched a prolonged civil war culminating ...
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Greek Drivers to Pay 58 Euros in Tolls From Athens to Thessaloniki
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Greece: Former minister sentenced to 4-year suspended imprisonment
euronewsGreece: Former minister sentenced to 4-year suspended imprisonmenteuronewsFormer Transport Minister Michalis Liapis was sentenced to four year suspended imprisonment, redeemable for 50 euros a day, after being arrested for driving an uninsured vehicle with fake number plates. The former minister, who did not attend the trial ...Liapis Gets Suspended Term For Fake PlatesGreek Reporterall 3 news articles »
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Europe Won't Let Down Greece, Says German Finance Minister -Report
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Greece gunmen target German ambassador's home
The home of Germany's ambassador to Athens was sprayed with gunfire early Monday, in an attack that prompted both governments to declare it would not strain ties between bailed-out Greece and its leading lender. No one was hurt in the pre-dawn attack when ...
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Gunmen open fire with assault rifle at German ambassador's home in Greece with as more Greeks blame the country for their economic woes
Attackers wielding assault rifles have opened fire on the German ambassador's residence in Athens. At least four shots hit the metal gate of the high-security residence in the busy northern suburb of Halandri. Sixty spent bullet cases have been ...
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Assailants open fire on home of German ambassador to Greece
December 30 – Unidentified assailants opened fire on the German ambassador’s residence in Athens with a Kalashnikov assault rifle early on Monday in an attack seen as an attempt to sour relations between debt-laden Greece and its biggest creditor ...
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German ambassador's Greek home attacked
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Europe won't turn its back on Greece: Schaeuble
Business RecorderEurope won't turn its back on Greece: SchaeubleBusiness RecorderFRANKFURT: Europe will not turn its back on Greece and the assumption of the rotating EU presidency offers Athens a great opportunity, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said Monday. In a pre-release of an interview to be published in the ...and more »
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Germany's inflation angst eases, makes it easier for Merkel to offer Greece debt relief
When Walter Baltes was five years old, he thought money came in bundles of banknotes. His grandmother carried them in her arms to the bakery to pay for bread. It was 1923, in the German town of Witten.
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Long queues at tax offices for final installments and road tax
Long queues formed from early on Monday morning at tax offices around the country as Greeks sought to hand back car and motorcycle license plates and take care of outstanding tax obligations before the end of the year.
Taxpayers have today and Tuesday to ... ...
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Greek, German gov't officials condemn shooting outside ambassador's home
Prime Minister Antonis Samaras telephoned German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday shortly after a pre-dawn shooting at the German ambassador’s residence in Halandri, northeastern Athens, an assault which German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier d... ...
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Shots Fired at German Ambassador’s Home, Police Suspect Terrorists
ATHENS – The home of Germany’s ambassador to Greece was sprayed with gunfire from automatic weapons early Dec. 30, in a suspected terrorist attack the government said was aimed at hurting the country’s image before it takes over the presidency of the European Union. No one was hurt. Anti-terrorism police cordoned off streets around the […]
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Half of Greeks Want to Leave
Weary of crushing austerity, record unemployment, deep poverty and a future that promises long-term, low-paying jobs and continued high taxes, more than half of Greeks want to leave their homeland to find a better life in other countries. That was the finding of a poll conducted by Kapa Research for the newspaper To Vima that […]
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10 Obscure but Awesome Greek Gods & Monsters Fit for Film
Most movie lovers are familiar with the standard gods, demigods and monsters from Greek mythology. Writers like Homer and Hesiod once told stories of these characters through epic poems, but now modern audiences hear these tales in theaters. Percy Jackson ...
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Greece: shots fired at German ambassador's house in Athens
(ANSAmed) – ATHENS, DECEMBER 30 – Almost 50 shots were fired at the gate of the German ambassador’s residence in Halandri, northeastern Athens, in a pre-dawn attack on Monday, as Kathimerini online reports. The raid took place at around 3.30 a.m. but ...
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A Different Greek New Year's Celebration
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Greece hopes to return to bond market: Minister
Press TVGreece hopes to return to bond market: MinisterPress TVGreece's finance minister says the austerity-hit country is hoping to return to bond markets in the second half of the year 2014. "We are preparing a return to the markets in the second half of 2014," Yannis Stournaras said on Sunday. The minister ...Greece eyes return to bond markets in 2nd half of 2014The West AustralianGreece eyes 2014 return to bond marketsTVNZStournaras Sees 2014 Greek Market ReturnGreek ReporterHong Kong Standardall 17 news articles »
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Shots fired at residence of German ambassador in Athens
Sixty spent bullet cases have been collected so far. Anti-German sentiment has grown during Greece's prolonged economic crisis, and many of those struggling with record unemployment and plummeting living standards blame Germany's insistence on fiscal ...
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Ski Conditions at Greek Peak
WBNG-TVSki Conditions at Greek PeakFOX 40 News WICZ TVAs we saw yesterday, many area locals are heading to nearby Greek Peak to get some time in on the slopes. But with upcoming changes in the weather will change mountain conditions. Right now the powder is packed down on the mountain, making a great ...Greek Peak spends million to ready for ski seasonWBNG-TVall 3 news articles »
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George T. Mason's opinion: Greek chi (X), 'Christ' share same meaning
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Greece: dozens of hotels on sale despite record tourism year
(ANSAmed) – ATHENS, DECEMBER 30 - Although 2013 has been a record one for Greek tourism, a high number of hotel owners, including some on popular resort islands, put their units up for sale at the end of the season. A Kathimerini newspaper survey ...
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Recipe: Going Greek spinach pie
Recipe: Going Greek spinach pieNJ.comThe Greeks have this amazing way with lemon and herbs and greens. Their spanakopita is my all-time, hands-down favorite thing to eat that involves greens. Here, I've taken a bit of poetic license and added golden raisins and pine nuts for variation ...
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Greek bonds' 47 pct return beats rest of world on brighter outlook
KathimeriniGreek bonds' 47 pct return beats rest of world on brighter outlookKathimeriniGreek bonds returned almost four times as much as any other government securities this year as the nation that sparked Europe's sovereign debt crisis moved toward economic recovery after six years of contraction. Greece's 47 percent year-to-date return ...
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Greece: Shots Outside Home of German Ambassador
Greek ReporterGreece: Shots Outside Home of German AmbassadorABC NewsPolice in Greece say the home of Germany's ambassador to Athens was sprayed with gunfire from automatic weapons in an overnight attack that caused no injuries. Anti-terrorism police cordoned off streets around the official residence of Ambassador ...Shots fired at German ambassador's residence in GreeceThe HinduShots Fired at Residence of German Ambassador in GreeceGreek Reporterall 16 news articles »
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