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How the world sees Greece
Wednesday, April 30, 2014
Euro-Zone Inflation Picks Up
Annual inflation in the euro zone accelerated slightly in April but remained far below the European Central Bank's target, in the latest indication that the region faces a long period of super-low inflation. Spanish bar owners, Greek tourism companies and French soda producers alike are trying to adjust to the weak price environment.
Jersey Shore Greek Festival to be Held in June
Ocean Township – OPA! Be Greek for a day at the Jersey Shore Greek Festival on the grounds of St. George Greek Orthodox Church in Ocean, NJ. Traditional Greek food, music, dancing, culture and hospitality will be overflowing during the spectacular family ...
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5/2: Spring Greek Festival at St. Katherine in Chandler
5/2: Spring Greek Festival at St. Katherine in Chandlerazcentral.comCome celebrate all things Greek at the 32nd annual Spring Greek Festival of Chandler this weekend at St. Katherine Greek Orthodox Church. The festival includess traditional foods, music, imported goods and entertainment as the church transforms into a ...
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Amusement Parks Operated With Forged Certificates in Greece
Amusement Parks Operated With Forged Certificates in GreeceGreek ReporterGreek police have revealed surprising information regarding a number of amusement parks set up illegally in Greece, while the uproar surrounding the tragic accident that cost the life of a 13-year old boy in Hellenico has yet to settle. Greek ...
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Reuters: Greece to Seek 50-Year Extension on Loan Repayment
Reuters revealed Wednesday that Greece is planning to ask for a 50-year extension to its repayment of loans from its international creditors. “Greece will
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The US Must Stop Putin’s Ukraine Gambit Danger
What's on Vladimir Putin's mind about Ukraine? His words notwithstanding, we don’t know what his intentions are. Is the crisis really over and done?
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Sana Halo, Subject of “Not Even My Name” Passes Away at 105; Pontian Genocide Survivor is Mourned
Sana Halo, Subject of Not Even My Name, Is Mourned NEW YORK – A light that has burned long and bright has gone out, but will not be forgotten. Sano Halo, a survivor of the Pontinan Genocide who was immortalized by her daughter Thea Halo in her memoire, Not Even My Name, passed away on […]
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Family and Friends Bid Farewell to Voutsinas
NEW YORK – Tears of mourning but also of appreciation mingled with the late April rain at the funeral of banker and community leader Spiros Voutsinas at the Cathedral of St. Paul in Hempstead. Father Luke Melackrinos, the Dean of St. Paul’s, and Father Nikiforos Fakinos of St. Demetrios in Merrick presided over the funeral. […]
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Blue-sky approach to Greek island hopping – by seaplane
With its 3,000 or more islands, connecting Greece has never been easy. Aristotle Onassis, the late shipping tycoon, dreamed of doing it. A Canadian firm launched a seaplane business in the runup to the 2004 Olympics, and hardy entrepreneurs have tried to ...
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Under The Streetlamp and Gentleman's Rule to open season at Greek Theatre
Under The Streetlamp and Gentleman's Rule to open season at Greek TheatreLong Beach Press-TelegramIn March, PBS aired specials featuring the groups Under The Streetlamp and Gentleman's Rule, and Friday, you can see them live when they kick off the summer season at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles. “There's something arresting about music ...
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Greek State to Stop Funding Unregistered Entities
As of May 1st, the Greek state will stop funding about 500 private legal entities that didn’t register in time for its latest census. According to official figures, about 900 private legal entities employing some 32,000 people have submitted their details.
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Greek Food Fair ready for 4th year
The scene inside the Church of the Annunciation’s Mihailides Center last Wednesday night was almost as old as the Greek Orthodox parish once based in Providence. In one area of the spacious Demetrakas Hall, more than two-dozen women sat in chairs at long ...
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Tackling Tax Evasion: Bloomberg Follows Greece’s Fraud Squad
In a recent story, a Bloomberg correspondent followed Greece’s Financial Crime Unit (SDOE) performing random spot checks at several locations across Athens, unraveling step by step the Greek mentality of evading taxes, which “has its roots back in ...
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Slow growth in Greece
ATHENS, Greece (AP) – Greece will achieve better-than-expected budget figures in 2014 but unemployment will only decline slowly over the next four years, the country’s finance ministry said today. The ministry said it expects to achieve a primary ...
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Greece eyes extension of rescue loans, more bond issues
Greece will formally propose stretching the maturity of its international rescue loans from about 30 years to up to 50 as part of a push to make its debt sustainable, a senior Greek finance ministry official told Reuters on Wednesday. Bailed-out Athens has qualified for more debt relief from the European Union and IMF after topping its budget targets last year and ending its four-year exile from ...
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Greeks Stampede For Free Produce
A free food distribution by open-air market producers who are on strike turned into a free-for-all rush for fruits and vegetables on April 30.
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Greek denial of vote to targets of racism increases Golden Dawn's EP chances
Greek denial of vote to targets of racism increases Golden Dawn's EP chancesEUobserverThis dire economic and social situation and the failures of Greek policies towards migrants, refugees and asylum seekers have been exploited by country's far-right. As a result, Greece's old party system collapsed in the 2012 national elections.Greek Parliament clears way for 4 more far-right Golden Dawn lawmakers to be ...Fox NewsRetired generals to fight Euro election on Golden Dawn ticketEnetEnglishall 5 news articles »
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Greece considers new bond sale
Greece is considering a bond sale to raise 3.0-6.0 billion euros ($4.2-8.3 billion) after a successful five-year issue earlier this month, the finance ministry said on Wednesday. "The finance ministry ... is already processing and preparing a programme for the possibility of a new recourse to markets for a sum of 3.0-6.0 billion euros," the ministry said in a budget presentation. The bond issue ...
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Greek Parliament clears way for 4 more far-right Golden Dawn lawmakers to be prosecuted
Greece's Parliament has cleared the way for charges to be brought against the last four lawmakers from the Nazi-inspired Golden Dawn party who have not yet been prosecuted or jailed for alleged criminal activities.
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Greece: 4 more far-right lawmakers to be charged
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece's Parliament has cleared the way for charges to be brought against the last four lawmakers from the Nazi-inspired Golden Dawn party who have not yet been prosecuted or jailed for alleged criminal activities.
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Greek Org of Football Prognostics : Combine Solicitation
It is the policy of the Coast Guard to issue solicitations and make contract awards in a fair and timely manner. The Ombudsman Program for Agency Protests (OPAP) was established to investigate agency protest issues and resolve them without expensive and ...
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Greece Banking System Outlook Changed To Stable: Moody’s
Moody’s Investor Service raised its outlook for the banking system of Greece from negative to stable. According to the rating agency, its revised outlook reflects its expectations of return to growth of its domestic economy in 2014 to 2015 after ...
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Time to Prove or Disprove the Holy Sepulchre Fire Mystery
Dan Georgakas and Constantinos E. Scaros discuss the mystery of the Holy Fire at the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. Is it a hoax or is it “the greatest story never told?” SCAROS PRESENTS HIS POINT OF VIEW Dan, I’m going to shift gears this time and move beyond our usual arena of American politics, because […]
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Greek companies draw on Samaras confidence with return to bonds
A recovery in the nation that set off the euro region’s debt crisis is allowing Greece’s largest electricity company to return to the bond market for the first time since 2000.
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Greece Moves to Prevent Mobile Phone Theft
A new regulation concerning the operation of telecommunications providers attempts to stem the tide of mobile-phone theft in Greece. Henceforth, a stolen mobile phone will be useless and the thieves won’t be able to resell it on the black market as it ...
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Greece to seek to stretch maturity of rescue loans to up to 50 years -source
Greece will formally propose stretching the maturity of its international rescue loans to up to 50 years as part of measures to make its debt sustainable, a senior Greek finance ministry official said ...
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Greek Miner Killed in Ludlow Massacre, Honored
The Greek immigrant Louis Tikas born in Crete, Greece as Elias Spantidakis was the main labor union organizer at the Ludlow camp during a 14-month coal strike in southern Colorado from 1913–1914. On April 20, 1914, Tikas along with 19 other Greeks ...
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The National waxes poetic at the Greek
The National waxes poetic at the GreekDaily CalifornianDespite the morose, despairing lyrics sung poetically by lead singer Matt Berninger, the energy was surprisingly positive and enthusiastic at the band's Saturday show at the William Randolph Hearst Greek Theater. Progressive-rock band Portugal. The Man ...
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Venizelos Submits To The Olive Tree
PASOK Socialist chief Evangelos Venizelos says it will survive May municipal and European Parliament elections by tying itself to the political group Olive Tree.
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Brazil Olympic Pace Worse Than Athens
In a public warning, a vice president of the International Olympic Committee called lagging preparations for the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro "the worst I have experienced."
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Greek Surplus Up, Joblessness Lingers
Greece's finance ministry said a primary surplus will be bigger than expected but the country's record jobless rate won't go down markedly for at least four years.
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Greece Sees Bigger Surplus, Long-Lasting Unemployment
There’s good news and bad news for the Greek economy: a primary surplus will be bigger than expected but the country’s record jobless rate won’t go down markedly for at least four years. That was the assessment from the finance ministry which said ...
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Samaras: Greece’s Signs of Energy Find “Extremely Auspicious”
Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said “indications of the country’s energy resources are extremely auspicious” at a conference Tuesday Addressing a conference concerning “The Future of Greek Gas and Power Markets: Looking Ahead with ...
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Greek Cypriot archbishop casts doubt on peace talks
Turkey has maintained a military presence in the island's north as a constitutional guarantor of peace after Greek extremist militant group EOKA, which sought to unite the island with Greece, conducted a coup on the government in July 1974 after having ...
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Experts Weigh in on Greece Bond Sale
All hail Greece? Well, considering that the total return on the Greek 10-year note is up 400% since June 2012, it’s definitely time to consider the nation’s comeback more seriously. The super-spike in price is greater than any technology stock in the ...
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Greek Public Power Markets Bonds in First Sale Since 2000
Public Power Corp SA (PPC) , Greece’s largest electricity company, is returning to the bond market for the first time since 2000 as recovery takes hold in the nation that set off the euro region’s debt crisis.
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Greek retail sales rise 0.6 pct y/y in February
Greek retail sales by volume rose 0.6 percent in February compared to the same month last year, statistics service ELSTAT said on Wednesday. The reading had dropped at a revised annual pace of 0.4 percent ...
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Greece forecasts higher budget surpluses, but sees slow decline in unemployment
ATHENS, Greece - Greece's finance ministry says the country will achieve better-than-expected budget figures this year, but conceded that high levels of unemployment would likely only decline slowly over ...
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Putting the chaos in order
A major effort is under way to streamline Greece’s broader state sector. Hopefully the work being done will eventually lead to results.
We should not forget that, until very recently, officials at the top echelons of power had no idea of the exact number ... ...
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The absence of a genuine middle class
We often wonder what went wrong, look for the reasons behind the country’s decline. Again and again we have analyzed the phenomenon of populism, the poverty of Greece’s political personnel and the erosion of its institutions. However, behind many of the c... ...
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Greece expects higher budget surpluses
Greece's finance ministry says the country will achieve better-than-expected budget figures this year, but conceded that high levels of unemployment would likely only decline slowly over the next four ...
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Fernando Santos Ends his Career with Greek National Team
Portuguese football coach Fernando Santos will terminate his four-year tenure with the Greek national team as he decided not to renew his
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Greece expects to beat 2014 budget target, may issue more bonds
Greece expects to beat 2014 budget target, may issue more bondsReutersATHENS (Reuters) - Greece said on Wednesday it expected to beat a 2014 budget target set by its international lenders and may tap bond markets again with an issue of between 3 and 6 billion euros to plug any potential funding gap over the next 12 months.Greece sees beating budget target this year, may issue more bondsMSN Moneyall 2 news articles »
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Greek Tax-Evasion Crackdown Focuses on Nightclub Basements
It's Saturday night going on Sunday morning at a club near the gated homes of the Greek elite in northern Athens as two men and a woman in business suits push through the crowd and demand to see the cash register. Government income in the first quarter was 12.7 billion euros, 3.1 percent higher than the year earlier period.
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Magnitude 4.8 Earthquake Hits Aegean; Rattles Athens
A 4.8 magnitude earthquake rattled Greece at 7.03 am, April 30th, 2014. The quake that was felt in Athens, woke up Greek
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Greek Nightclub Basements Focus of Tax-Evasion Dragnets
It’s Saturday night going on Sunday morning at a club near the gated homes of the Greek elite in northern Athens as two men and a woman in business suits push through the crowd and demand to see the cash register. The manager sighs. It’s the tax man.
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Piano Magic Will Help Greek Children
NEW YORK – Pianist Athena Adamopoulos will be the featured performer at a special fundraising concert in support of the Greek children’s charity Mazi gia to Pedi – Together, for the Child,” at the Greek Consulate in New York on May 2. The program will consist of a mix of classical and her own arrangements […]
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Arnold 'Greek' Barkema
Arnold 'Greek' BarkemaMason City Globe GazetteBELMOND | Arnold “Greek” Barkema, age 96, of Belmond, passed away Saturday, April 26, 2014, at Rehabilitation Center of Belmond. Funeral services for Arnold “Greek” Barkema will be held at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, April 30, 2014, at the Immanuel ...
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Greek island holiday guide: the Sporades and Evia
The Sporades, which stretch out into the Aegean off Greece's eastern coast, consist of 24 islands, but only four of these are permanently inhabited: Skiathos, Skopelos, Alonissos and Skyros. Skiathos is the most-travelled of the islands thanks to its ...
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Aussie tourists opt for Greece
Almost 130,000 Australians travelled to Greece in 2013, a rise of 9.6 per cent of tourists, while Australia gets set to welcome Greece's Minister for Tourism Olga Kefalogianni next month. Ms Kefalogianni will visit Australia to promote Greek tourism but ...
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