Both BRAZIL and GREECE hold particularly high growth potential. BRAZIL continues to be a fast-growing music market, as indicated by TUNECORE ...
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How the world sees Greece
Friday, October 31, 2014
TuneCore Deals Help Collect Digital Royalties In Brazil, Greece
Mercy HS student diagnosed with bacterial meningitis
A 14-year-old student who attends Mercy High School has been diagnosed with bacterial meningitis. email · print. Comment. Greece Post. Writer.
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4.5 Mln Euro Donation to Greek Hospitals
medical supplies AHEPA in collaboration with the International Orthodox Christian Charities (IOCC) have sent 4.5 million dollars worth of medical ...
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Arcturos Environmental Center
When thinking of Greece and wildlife, what’s likely to come to mind is sea creatures and sheep. But Greece, which in ancient times used to host wild lions, is today home to a number of land mammals including wild goats, foxes, wolves, deer, and bears. Based in the mountainous village of Nymfaio in northwestern Greece, […] The post Arcturos Environmental Center appeared first on The National Herald.
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In Greece, recovery starts with fast food and coffee
Graphics artist and part-time barmaid, Mariza Papasmiria struggled for years juggling her two jobs, working seven days a week for 1,600 euros ($2,200) a month, AFP reports. Then she decided to open a snack bar in Athens, one of thousands of Greeks making ...
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Eurostat: Unemployment in Greece at 26.4% in July
Greece tops the “black list” of European unemployment once again, according to seasonally adjusted figures released on October 31 by EU statistics office, Eurostat. Unemployment rates across the 28 member states was 10.1% in September 2014, while the ...
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Greek-Australian Researchers to Receive Medical Grants
Hays_ARA_2013_Feature_2 The presence of Greek-Australians on the list of scientists who will receive grants by the National Health and Medical ...
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Disposable income of households fell 10.3 pct in one year
The reduction of Greek households’ disposable incomes in 2013 compared with 2012 amounted to a total of 14 billion euros, the biggest since the start of the crisis according to data released by the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT). Disposable cash ... ...
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Airborne Toxic Event billows through the Greek Theatre
Barely one song into the popular Los Angeles quintet's exhilarating 95-minute set at the Greek Theatre, leader Mikel Jollett exclaimed, “Isn't it great to ...
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Greek God to Fan Favorite: Youk Was a Player Both Beloved and Despised
Eric Wilbur is a Boston.com sports columnist who is still in awe of what Dana Kiecker pulled off that one time in Toronto. He lives in the Boston area ...
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Greek Orthodox Church building gets new dome
POCATELLO, Idaho — A new dome has been placed on the nearly 100-year-old Assumption Greek Orthodox Church in eastern Idaho. The Idaho ...
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10 Greek Honey
10 Greek Honey, is housed in a sleek black box with a diecut window that peeks through showcasing the pure honey jar and its vibrant contrast honey ...
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Reform plan among conditions
Finance Minister Gikas Hardouvelis outlined on Friday the government’s new reform model, which will form part of the “new relationship” between Greece and its eurozone peers involving the supply of emergency credit if Athens requires it. In his address to... ...
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Turkish-Greek cooperation in Aegean helps stem flow of migrants
Closer cooperation between Greek and Turkish coast guard authorities has led to 11,000 undocumented migrants being prevented from entering Greek borders and returned to the neighboring country since the start of the year, data presented by the Merchant Ma... ...
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Police looking for dark SUV used in Athens drive-by shooting
Police were seeking two men in connection with a deadly drive-by shooting at Vathis Square in central Athens early on Friday. A 44-year-old Greek man was killed in the attack and an Albanian woman was injured. Witnesses told investigators that a dark-colo... ...
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Yields on Greek debt fall 22 basis points
Peripheral European government bond yields fell on Friday as a surprise decision by the Bank of Japan to expand its monetary stimulus saw investors pile into riskier assets. Yields on Spanish and Italian debt fell by 5 and 6 basis points respectively, whi... ...
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One of eight suspects remanded over attack on Mesolongi police station
One of eight people arrested on Wednesday night after an attack on a police precinct in Mesolongi, western Greece, was remanded in pretrial custody on Friday. Two other suspects, aged 19 and 20, were released on bail, while the other five were granted unc... ...
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Greece's Orthodox Church bans funeral services for members who plan to be cremated
by Associated Press Greek Church: No funerals for cremated members Associated Press - 31 October 2014 14:22-04:00 ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece's Orthodox Church has instructed its priests not to conduct funeral services for members of the church who plan to be cremated in violation of church tradition, an angry response to recent legislation that makes it easier for Greeks to choose cremation over burial. Greece currently has no cremation facilities although the practice was legalized years ago. Parliament this year gave governments the authority to approve crematoriums, and the City of Athens has promised to license one in the next two years. The church's governing Holy Synod on Friday said the law was part of effort to "remove faith from every aspect of life." The Orthodox Church, which represents about 98 percent of country's population, considers cremation as being disrespectful to the body. News Topics: General news, Funerals and memorial services, Eastern Orthodox Church, Orthodox Christianity, Christianity, Religion, Social affairs People, Places and Companies: Greece, Athens, Western Europe, Europe Copyright 2014 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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Greece to define post-bailout relationship with EU, IMF by early 2015-finmin
ATHENS Oct 31 (Reuters) - Greece will have a new relationship with its EU and IMF lenders from next year, when it will fund itself from markets but ...
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Karen Carberry who lied about qualifications to get job at Reed then swindled £300k
Karen Carberry, of Epsom, Surrey, plundered the company accounts to spend money in high street stores and on trips to Greece. She was found guilty of fraud at the Old Bailey
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When the Greeks Ruled Egypt
The Ptolemies' palace complex, staffed by a European elite, stood in Alexandria, one of the world's original Green Zones, a Greek-style city founded ...
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Greece to auction 875mn euros of 6 month T-bills on Nov 5
ATHENS: Greece will auction 875 million euros (1.10 billion US dollar) six-month treasury bills on November 5 to refinance a maturing issue, the ...
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Turks, Greeks gather to discuss 1964 expulsions
Greek and Turkish scholars came together on Friday for a conference at İstanbul Bilgi University titled “1964 Expulsions: A turning point in the ...
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MGK vows to protect northern Cyprus' rights on drilling row
Greek Cyprus, a member of the European Union, has become particularly keen to develop offshore gas reserves as a potential source of revenue ...
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When the Greeks Ruled Egypt
The Ptolemies' palace complex, staffed by a European elite, stood in Alexandria, one of the world's original Green Zones, a Greek-style city founded ...
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Antirrio-Ioannina in Less Than 100 Minutes
Motorway 5 or ‘Ionia Odos’ that connects Antirrio to Mesologgi, Agrinio, Amphilohia, Arta and Ioannina in western Greece, is a long anticipated roadworks underway that will change Western Greece, Epirus and Peloponnese when completed. Ionia Odos is considered one of the most difficult roadworks projects of Greece. The motorway passes through the Pindos sierra. Its start is at the Rio-Antirrio bridge and after passing through most major Western Greek cities of Mesologgi, Agrinio, Amphilochia and Arta it reaches Ioannina, the capital of Epirus where it is connected with Egnatia Odos in Northern Greece. The total length of Ionia Odos will be 196 km. It is part of the European route E55. Construction that began in 2010, has been delayed significantly due to severe economic problems concerning the construction companies, slow progress of expropriations, archaeological investigations, lawsuits and environmental issues. However, by mid-2013 works throughout the motorway had resumed and are expected to wrap up by December 2015 or in early 2016. The first sections to be completed were the bypasses of Patras, Arta and Agrinio, and the Rio–Antirrio bridge. In late 2006, Greece signed a €1.4 billion deal with a Greek-Spanish consortium consisting of construction firms GEK Group of Companies SA, Terna SA, Cintra SA, and Grupo ACS. The consortium, now operating under the name “Nea Odos,” will build and operate the road, receiving toll fees for 30 years, while investing a combined €1.15 billion in the project. The rest of the funds will be provided by the European Union and the Greek government. Construction, undertaken by the Euroionia Joint Venture (Terna SA, Dragados SA and Ferrovial SA) finally began in 2008 with a completion date of 72 months. Construction of the motorway stopped in 2011 because of the consortia’s economic problems and no works had been under way until April 2013. Then, it was decided that the motorway (along with some other Greek motorways under construction) would finally be constructed by December 31, 2015.
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Greek Church: No funerals for cremated members
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece's Orthodox Church has instructed its priests not to conduct funeral services for members of the church who plan to be cremated in violation of church tradition, an angry response to recent legislation that makes it easier for Greeks to choose cremation over burial.
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Greek Church: No funerals for cremated members
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece's Orthodox Church has instructed its priests not to conduct funeral services for members of the church who plan to be cremated in violation of church tradition, an angry response to recent legislation that makes it easier for Greeks to choose cremation over burial.
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German FinMin: No Bilateral Agreement on Further Support to Greece
Greece and Germany have not concluded to any new bilateral agreement on further support to Greece after the recent meeting of the Greek Finance Minister, Gikas Hardouvelis, with his German counterpart Wolfgang Schaeuble on Wednesday, clarified the Ministry ...
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Piraeus Bank paves way for share capital increase
Piraeus Bank SA on Thursday approved the repurchase of its preferred shares from the Greek state and approved cancellation of these preferred shares in order to decrease its share capital by 750 million euros. [Reuters]... ...
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Technical Chamber of Greece: True Value of ‘Elliniko’ Is 3 Billion Euros
Elliniko was sold for a whopping three times less than its true value, according to a report published by the Technical Chamber of Greece (TEE) at a special open event. The value of the 6,200 acres of the former Athens international airport in Elliniko, Agios Kosmas, is considered to be about 3 billion euros, but it was sold by Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund (TAIPED) to Lamda Development for only 915 million euros last year. The highly valued property — characterized as one of the most profitable in the southern suburbs of Athens — was sold by TAIPED, in accordance with the Greek government, 222% less than its assessed value, while TEE underlines that the average price of 92 euros per square meter was similar to less affluent areas such as Vrachati in Corinth. This value does not correlate with the surrounding upscale areas of the southern suburbs of Athens. In addition, the report argues that the 955 acres of buildings in Agios Kosmas alone, should have been sold for at least 1.5 billion euros, exceeding the agreed deal by a landslide. In terms of the evaluation revealed by the report undertaken by TEE members, president of the Chamber, Christos Spirtzis, underlined that “TAIPED is a poor auction house, without starting values and with only an offer. There is a big issue for the operation of the Asset Development Fund.” In a severe attack against the government, Mr. Spiritzis said, that “with today’s assessment we are doing what the TAIPED should have normally done. It is obvious that the political responsibilities are huge for this step by step approach of selling out Elliniko.” Finally, he invited opposition and government party representatives in a battle to “protect the public interest, wherever any of us belongs politically or ideologically.”
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Amphipolis Dig Reveals Vault
Archaeologists digging at a tomb dating to the era of Alexander the Great in ancient Amphipolis in northern Greece found an underground vault. The post Amphipolis Dig Reveals Vault appeared first on The National Herald.
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ENERGY: Foreign Ministers of Cyprus, Greece, Egypt to meet again
Minister of Energy Giorgos Lakkotrypis said that a tripartite ministerial meeting between Cyprus, Greece and Egypt on energy issues will take place at ...
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Hold Your Own review powerful poetry from Kate Tempest
She may have been pipped to the Mercury prize, but her latest collection is a winnerAt the heart of Kate Tempests latest work is a captivating dichotomy. On the one hand, she is the soul of modernity: now 28, she began her professional career as a rapper at 16; became the youngest-ever winner of the Ted Hughes prize for innovation in poetry for her spoken story, Brand New Ancients, last year; was named by the Poetry Book Society as one of its 20 Next Generation poets in September; and, this week, was tipped to win the Mercury prize for her debut album, Everybody Down, in which she lays out the lives of three friends struggling with loneliness and insecurity in 21stcentury London, over the course of 12 densely plotted, dashingly articulate tracks. By the notoriously fusty standards of the poetry world, in which performance poetry can still be regarded as daringly outre, she is beyond modern; shes practically science fiction.Then, intriguingly, theres the other hand. When it comes to straight poetry (and this, her first full-length collection with Picador, is the straightest thing she has done by far: looking and sounding like a traditional slim volume; conforming unselfconsciously to time-honoured conventions of line length and layout), Tempests focus is firmly classical. She is fascinated by the deep past. Hold Your Own, like Brand New Ancients before it, takes for its subject the lives of the gods and monsters of Greek mythology not, perhaps, what you would expect from an urban former rapper who cites Roots Manuva and the Wu Tang Clan among her other key influences. What makes her work so irresistible, then, is her method of synthesis; the manner in which she brings her hands together. Her poems arent simply routine retellings of time-worn tales; rather, she picks up the fabulous, familiar characters, dusts them down and hauls them into the present. In Brand New Ancients, the gods were recast as two warring, intergenerational south London families; here, the update is more sophisticated and, if anything, more compelling. Continue reading...
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Greece's Paddy Hill School marks milestone
For 175 years, there's been one constant feature at the intersection of Latta Road and Mount Read Boulevard in Greece: a school atop what's long ...
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Greek Bond Holders Protest Big Losses, Bakoyianni Backs Them
Victims of a 2012 Greek decision to stiff investors, which hit the Diaspora too, with 74 percent losses protested outside the Finance Ministry and got the support of New Democracy lawmaker Dora Bakoyiannis who said they should get their money back. The post Greek Bond Holders Protest Big Losses, Bakoyianni Backs Them appeared first on The National Herald.
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Elena Ferrante: the global literary sensation nobody knows
She shuns publicity and her identity is a mystery. Yet, as the last in her acclaimed series of novels about two friends in Naples is published, Elena Ferrantes reputation is soaring, with Zadie Smith, James Wood and Jhumpa Lahiri among her fans. Meghan ORourke on a literary mysteryElena Ferrante is an Italian novelist who was born in or near Naples. She seems once to have been married; she may have lived in Greece; she appears to be a mother. Or so we think. In our self-promoting, Twitter-saturated age, Ferrante is an outlier, an author who wishes to remain totally private. She refuses face-to-face interviews, has only given a handful of written ones (a few of her letters have been published), and makes no personal appearances; no photographs of her have been published. In 1991, shortly before the publication of her style-defining first book, Troubling Love, Ferrante sent a letter to her editor, explaining that she would not be promoting it: I believe that books, once they are written, have no need of their authors. If they have something to say, they will sooner or later find readers; if not, they wont. Anonymity, she thought, would preserve a space of absolute creative freedom, a freedom all the more necessary because her books stick a finger in certain wounds I have that are still infected.That absolute creative freedom has resulted in a series of brilliant novels. (Six are now available in English, all exquisitely translated by Ann Goldstein, an editor at the New Yorker.) Ferrantes project is bold: her books chronicle the inner conflicts of intelligent women (professors, novelists) who, having made their way to Florence or Rome and to good jobs, find themselves confronting memories of the crude violence and misogyny of their youth. Shaken by a surprising event, they lose their grip on reality, lapse into a Neapolitan dialect full of obscenities, and are drawn into hallucinatory quests to heal old emotional injuries. The books taglines might be No self can be left behind: in Ferrantes world, no character can escape her past.When my daughters moved to Toronto, where their father had lived and worked for years, I was embarrassed and amazed to discover that I wasnt upset; rather, I felt light, as if only then had I definitively brought them into the world. For the first time in almost twenty-five years I was not aware of the anxiety of having to take care of them. The house was neat, as if no one lived there, I no longer had the constant bother of shopping and doing the laundry.I touched it with the hem of my bathrobe, it moved and became immediately quiet. Male, female. The stomach of the females doesnt have elastic membranes, it doesnt sing, its mute. I felt disgust. One April afternoon, right after lunch, my husband announced that he wanted to leave me. He did it while we were clearing the table; the children were quarrelling as usual in the next room, the dog was dreaming, growling beside the radiator. He told me that he was confused, that he was having terrible moments of weariness, of dissatisfaction, perhaps of cowardice. He talked for a long time about our fifteen years of marriage, about the children, and admitted that he had nothing to reproach us with, neither them nor me. He was composed, as always. Then he assumed the blame for everything that was happening and closed the front door carefully behind him, leaving me turned to stone beside the sink.You wounded me, you are destroying me, and Im supposed to speak like a good, well-brought-up wife? Fuck you! What words am I supposed to use for what youve done to me, for what youre doing to me? What words should I use for what youre doing with that woman! Lets talk about it! Do you lick her cunt? Do you stick it in her ass? Do you do all the things you never did with me?They were magnificent hours of play, of invention, of freedom, such as we hadnt experienced together perhaps since childhood. Lila drew me into her frenzy. ... With extreme precision (she was demanding) we attached the black paper cutouts. Continue reading...
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Kroger Friday freebie: Yoplait Greek yogurt
Kroger is back this week with a Friday freebie -- a 5.3 oz. cup of Yoplait Greek yogurt. The coupon is valid through Nov. 15 but you must download it ...
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Gamesa Sells Two Greek Wind Farm Developments
Gamesa has sold two wind farm developments totaling 82 MW to EMV, a Greek subsidiary of EREN. Gamesa will build the projects under a turnkey ...
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Gamesa Corporación Tecnológica SA: Gamesa sells two wind farm developments in Greece with ...
Gamesa, a global technology leader in wind energy, has sold to EMV, a Greek subsidiary of EREN, two wind farm developments in Greece with ...
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Belarusian senators ratify Belarus-Greece road transport agreement
MINSK, 31 October (BelTA) - Belarusian senators approved the international road transport agreement between the governments of Belarus and ...
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EU Subsidy Keeps Russian Gas Coming to Ukraine
by Kostis Geropoulos Vouliagmeni, Greece – The morning sun was shining at a seaside resort south of Athens where a geopolitical conference was taking place on October 31, focusing on energy security. Despite the relatively warm weather, the news of a last minute gas deal between Russia and Ukraine reached in Brussels overnight eased fears that a gas crisis could disrupt gas supplies to the Mediterranean country this winter. Ukraine, Russia and the European Union signed a deal late on October 30 in Brussels that will see Moscow resume much-needed gas supplies to its freezing ex-Soviet neighbour over the winter in return for payments funded in part by Kiev’s Western creditors. The deal will also ensure gas supplies to EU countries via Ukraine are secure. “It’s only for the winter. But the winter is the most challenging period for Ukraine to go through the cold weather and for Europe as well. So it was crucial to reach this agreement now to resume Russian deliveries to Ukraine,” Alexey Grivach, Deputy Director of Moscow’s National Energy Security Fund (NESF), told New Europe on the sidelines of the conference “The Security of Europe: A new Geopolitical Dimension” by Greece’s Institute of Geopolitical Studies “National Generation” (IGMEA). Ukraine is still a very important transit country for deliveries of Russian gas to the EU, especially to southeastern Europe, he said. “If Ukraine would have problems with warming their houses, heating, electricity, etcetera, they, of course, will take gas from the transit pipelines,” Grivach said. “They will not meet their obligations in transit and suffer from cold.” Grivach said he hopes that following the agreement reached late on October 30 “this winter we will not face such actions from Ukraine”. Asked if a gas crisis was averted, he said, “We gained a base to avoid it. But still there is a question about the implementation of these agreements”. The EU has agreed to serve as guarantor for the gas price Kiev would pay to Russia. Kiev has agreed to pay a total of $1.45 billion immediately from its own funds and another $1.65 billion by the end of the year. Grivach said Ukraine doesn’t have enough money to pay $1.65 billion by the end of 2014. “There are some signs that during November and December, EU and international financial institutions will provide some additional financial aid to Ukraine,” he said, adding that still if it’s not in place or Ukraine does not meet EU and IMF obligations, “these funds may not come to Ukraine so we can meet another gas crisis in January”. The Russian energy expert said he saw in the agreement a sign of improved relations between Moscow and Kiev. “Ukraine’s transit is kind of a bomb which can explode at any time and harm the Russian-European gas relationship. Because if gas is not flowing many people don’t want to hear about Ukraine and think that Russian gas is an unreliable partner for the EU. So there is the potential of using Ukraine as kind of transit weapon against Russian gas in Europe,” Grivach argued. “Even before the sanctions and before the Ukraine crisis, the main issue in the European energy policy is reducing Russian gas share in the European market. There are no alternatives but anyway this aim is still in place,” he quipped. follow on twitter @energyinsider Previously on Energy Insider: Gazprom Sees Bigger Role in Austria Putin Pushes South Stream In Belgrade, Milan Gazprom Neft Well-Prepared For US-EU Sanctions
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Greece witnesses remarkable decline in racist attacks
ATHENS, Oct. 31 (Xinhua) -- The number of racist attacks recorded across Greece has declined in recent months following judicial crackdown against ...
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Growth The Only Option For Greece?
ATHENS, Greece – Even the cycling market cannot escape the reality of the Greek economic situation. Low purchasing power results in roughly 40% ...
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Greek PM appoints new defense minister to replace Avramopoulos
ATHENS, Oct. 31 (Xinhua) -- Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras appointed Current Development Minister Nikos Dendias on Friday as new ...
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Significant increase of Greek vegetable exports to North-Rhine Westfalia
According to the Statistical Office of the German State of North-Rhine Westphalia, overall Greek exports increased slightly by 0.2% in the period ...
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#!#@!# greek casino
Besides fun and entertaining games, electronic games. One of her cards is face up and the other placed down. Even worse for Atlantic City, according ...
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Dendias to Replace Avramopoulos in Ministry of National Defense
Nikos Dendias is going to be the new National Defense Minister, replacing Dimitris Avramopoulos who will assume his duties at the European Commission this coming Monday, November 3. Mr. Dendias was previously appointed to the Ministry of Growth, and after his government shift, his post will be replaced by MP Kostas Skrekas, from the election district of Trikala. The Prime Minister, Antonis Samaras, had a scheduled meeting with the departing Minister of National Defense, Dimitris Avramopoulos, at 2:30 p.m. today and their discussion was focused on the replacement of Mr. Avramopoulos. In previous weeks, there were rumors in Athens, that the ministerial role would be assumed by the Prime Minister himself, however this scenario was later abandoned after yesterday’s meeting of Mr. Samaras and Vice Prime Minister Evangelos Venizelos. Scenarios of a new cabinet reshuffle, only four months after the second reshuffle which took place in early June. According to sources close to the governmental cadre, Mr. Samaras and Venizelos agreed to the appointment of Nikos Dendias, as they both desired the next Minister of National Defense to be a New Democracy MP close to ex Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis. Mr. Avramopoulos is expected to resign from his ministerial post by Saturday, while Mr. Dendias will be sworn in on Monday, following the return of President Karolos Papoulias from Giannena. Dimitris Avramopoulos’ seat in the Greek Parliament will be taken up by New Democracy’s first runner-up in the election district of Athens A’, Thanos Plevris. Nikos Dendias, apart from his post in the Ministry of Growth, has served as a Minister of Public Order, from June 2012 until June 2014, and as a Minister of Justice in 2009, under Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis.
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New Restaurant Offers Opportunity for Disabled
Thirty-three-year-old Dionysis-Nectarios Daloukas, plans to open up a restaurant in the Greek port city of Volos, Thessaly, and will be exclusively hiring disabled employees. He hopes that his outdoor restaurant, due to open its doors next May, will help build bridges for his city’s disabled people. Dionysis-Nectarios Daloukas, who suffered from a stroke at the young age of 18, decided to open a restaurant that gives disabled persons the opportunity to be productive. The stroke he suffered, left him with 80% disability, and at the same time, a great appetite to fight for a better life. Learning to cope with heart problems — that force him to live with a machine connected to his heart — he became acquainted with all the obstacles the disabled live with on a daily basis. Instead of allowing his disability drag him down, Dionysis found inspiration in creating a restaurant named ‘La Petite Cantine,’ an outdoor restaurant run exclusively by people with special needs in Volos, where he resides. The restaurant offers those with disabilities — who can and want to work — the opportunity to integrate themselves in the workforce. It is an innovative concept, not only for a small city in the Greek periphery, but in Greece in general. Although the idea of integrating disabled persons in society has been embraced throughout Europe, in Greece it has not been so. The country ratified most of the major international conventions in terms of access to education and employment for people with special needs and disabilities in 2009. “The idea is to develop a serious understanding of disabled people and support through employment as well. Our carefully developed plan is to start a business combining and establishing regular customers in our city who will enjoy quality food with fresh local products and offer work to people with special needs who face a myriad of barriers,” he said at an interview. Disabled people who can work and who want to work face many obstacles so we want to support their need to find employment,” he added.
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‘Athens. The Spirit of the ’60s: A Changing Capital’ Exhibition
Hellenic American Union with the cooperation of the Hellenic American College presents an exhibition on the architectural boom of Athens in the 1960s. The exhibition will take place at the Kennedy Gallery of the Hellenic American Union from November 3 until December 13. The subject matter of the exhibition “Athens. The Spirit of the ’60s: A changing capital” is the modern Athens that was built during the economic boom of the 1960s. The exhibition features photographs from private and public archives, postcards of the metropolis, magazines of that era and other materials. Photographs of emblematic buildings, such as the Athens Hilton Hotel, are prominent. Emphasis is given on the social changes that took place between the late 1950s and the onset of the military junta in 1967. Author and journalist Nikos Vatopoulos who curated the exhibition says he wanted to capture the aura of the ’60s in a city that was changing rapidly and was full of contradictions. He also aims to present the social, political, economic, cultural and psychological parameters that contributed to the birth of this modern metropolis. Tourism, consumerism and the new social mores are also viewed as important contributing factors in the birth of modern Athens. Vatopoulos says the visitor should also try to see how Athens progressed from the 1960s to what it is today, viewing the continuity of the capital of Greece. On Friday, November 21, there will be a talk by Nikos Vatopoulos entitled “Athens during the 1960s” at the Hellenic American Union Theater. Also, a guided tour of the exhibition will take place on Friday, December 5.
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