The omnibus bill needed for Greece to receive its next 1-billion-euro sub-tranche from its lenders was passed through Parliament on Wednesday ...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014
Coalition MPs approve reforms needed for Greece to receive 1-bln-euro tranche
Greece passes reform bill to unlock billion-euro aid tranche
Greek lawmakers passed a bill on Wednesday with a series of reforms to pave the way for the next, one-billion-euros ($1.3-billion) tranche of loans under the country's EU/IMF bailout. The money will help it meet bond payments later this month and precedes a major review of Athens' progress by the European Union and International Monetary Fund in September.
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Greek Parliament Approves Changes Needed for Next Phase of Bailout
ATHENS—Greece's parliament Wednesday approved legislation containing changes needed for the country to receive an installment of 1 billion ...
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Biden son goes Greek in cooking lesson
WE HEAR: Vice President Biden's son, Hunter, might soon be a kitchen aficionado, as he's poised to get a one-on-one cooking lesson from a culinary ...
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Greece Clears Way for Next Bailout Phase
Greece's parliament approved legislation containing changes needed for the country to receive the next installment in its bailout package.
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Bearcats Justin Jackson Signs With Greece Team
Per Cincinnati.com former Bearcats star Justin Jackson will be playing in Greece this upcoming season. Jackson played for the Charlotte Hornets ...
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Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank Near £300m Deal With National Bank of Greece
Dimitris Spyropoulos, a spokesman for Athens-based National Bank of Greece (ADR) (NYSE:NBG), said yesterday: “We're in the final stage, but there ...
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Industialists press issue of Greece's high energy costs
At a meeting with Prime Minister Antonis Samaras last week, the Hellenic Federation of Enterprises' (SEV) new board reportedly focused on the ...
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Bearcats Justin Jackson Signs With Greece Team
Per Cincinnati.com former Bearcats star Justin Jackson will be playing in Greece this upcoming season. Jackson played for the Charlotte Hornets ...
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Ebola Virus Outbreak: Greece Warns Against Traveling to West Africa
Fears for an epidemic by killer Ebola virus in West Africa caused Greek Health Ministry officials warned Greek citizens against traveling to West Africa, unless it is absolutely necessary. The worst Ebola outbreak in history has killed at least 932, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday. Between Saturday and Monday, 45 people died of the disease in West Africa, while the number of cases in the region rose by 108, the WHO reported. The Health Ministry officials had a meeting with representatives of the Hellenic Center of Disease Control and Prevention (KEELPNO) on Tuesday in order to discuss potential measures to avoid an outbreak of the Ebola virus in Greece. Greeks who need to travel to West Africa are advised to first seek guidance from KEELPNO and take the necessary precautions so they don’t contract the deadly virus. Furthermore, the Hellenic Center of Disease Control and Prevention also noted that any passengers arriving in Greece from countries where people have died from the virus should be screened. According to disease experts, there is minimal risk of the virus reaching Greece by migrants due to the fact that only one migrant out of 6,500 who have arrived in Greece in recent months was from West Africa. The Ebola virus has killed more than 800 people in West Africa, a number much higher than the World Health Organization expected. The warning from Greece comes only a week after the U.S. also advised its citizens to avoid traveling to West Africa.
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Greek restaurant Olive Tree Brasserie to open in Miller Arcade
Olive Tree Brasserie is expanding from Lytham to the city to open in the Miller Arcade. The restaurant has applied for a licence and is looking to open ...
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Lincoln Teams With Historic African-American Greek-Letter Groups To Aid Communities
DEARBORN, Mich., Aug. 6, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- To continue in its efforts to give back to local communities, the Lincoln Motor Company has teamed ...
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Greek classic performed at Monmouth County Library
"The Libation Bearers" is the second in a trilogy written by the Greek playwright Aeschylus, concerning the return of the Greek King Agamemnon from ...
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Greek Businessman Commits Suicide in Public
Not able to cope with the pain of his illness, a Greek businessman decided to put an end to his life by shooting himself in front of his business in Heraklion, Crete. The 62-year-old man who was at his office asked his son to go to their house and ...
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Appeal against acquittal of accused
The alliance will submit memorandums to the ministries of foreign affairs and expatriates' welfare, Bangladesh mission in Greece, National Human ...
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Greek weddings continue to gain international popularity
“I can’t speak with you right now.” “But... I...” “I’m swamped. There’s a Korean crew in the middle of a shoot,” and with that, the line went dead.
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Russia restricts imports of meat from parts of Greece
Citing disease outbreaks, Russia's food safety watchdog announced fresh restrictions on imports of livestock and beef from southern Europe on ...
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SSA WRAP: Greece leads peripheral sell-off
In the sovereign space, yesterday afternoon saw some selling in the periphery, led by Greece after reports that the country will not be able to complete ...
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Associate Director for Leadership Development and Greek Affairs
Specifically, the Associate Director, will advise Inter Greek Council, plan Greek week and Greek retreats, provide leadership development training and ...
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Renewable Power Testing Planned for Greek Ferry
Greece's Blue Star Ferries, a subsidiary of Attica Group, and Eco Marine Power (EMP) of Japan will deploy and evaluate renewable energy ...
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Ive got a word for Scrabble champions: mathematicians
So TE has made it into the Scrabble dictionary. It adds weight to the theory that love of language is a hindrance in this gameThe world of Scrabble is AGOG (score 24 if you managed to got one of the Gs on a double-letter score and the whole word on a triple-word score; give up if youve used it without the multipliers). The word TE has just been added to the revised edition of the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary. For Scrabble addicts, this is the HOLY (H on a triple-letter square to score 18, of course) grail. Being able to hook an E underneath T means that I can play far more words, says Robin Pollock Daniel, a Canadian Scrabble expert. I call those the amino acids of Scrabble. The more two-letter words we have, the more possibilities a word will fit.TE, as you will know, is a variant of TI, the seventh tone on the musical scale. It joins AA, AG, AI, AL, EL, ES, FY, KI, KO, KY, MI, MM, MU, NU, OE, PE, XI, XU, YU and ZA on the approved list, although you could go through several lifetimes and never hear this motley collection of abbreviations, archaisms and Greek and Hebrew letters in everyday speech. These may be the amino acids of the quasi-professional Scrabble players tragically circumscribed life, but they are not real words. Can you define a single one of them? Continue reading...
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Destruction of Syria’s Chemicals Continues Off Crete
According to an official announcement by the UN Security Council, more than 60% of Syria’s chemical weapons have already been destroyed. The destruction of the chemicals takes place in international waters off the coast of Crete, between Greece, Italy and Malta, causing widespread protests among local authorities of Crete and Greek residents. Scientists have expressed serious concerns about the possibility of an accident that would turn the entire sea area into a dead zone. According to the UN Security Council, neutralization of the chemicals will be completed by the end of the week. Syria agreed to surrender its chemical arsenal last year when the US threatened missile attacks in retaliation for a chemical attack on a suburb of Damascus which is believed to have killed more than 1,000 people. In early July, 600 metric tons of Syria’s most toxic chemicals were transferred onto the US cargo vessel MV Cape Ray in the Italian port of Gioia Tauro. The ship later moved into international waters and began the two-month process of destroying the chemicals. Syria’s chemical arsenal includes sarin nerve gas and mustard gas. After the destruction, hazardous byproducts will be transferred to special installations in Germany and Finland for further processing.
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Greek Armed Forces Protest Merging of Pensions; Prepare For Strike
Members of the Greek armed forces protested in Athens on Wednesday morning against the Greek government’s plans to merge their auxiliary pension funds with others. According to the president of the Panhellenic Federation of Police Officers, Christos ...
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Former Athens Olympics chief to commission Games cost study
A leading Greek think-tank on Wednesday said it had accepted a commission from the former chief of the Athens 2004 Olympics to study the event's ...
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Roma and Juventus compete for Greek defender
Kostas Manolas Olympiakos Juventus and Roma will have to battle it out for Olympiacos' 23-year-old defender Kostas Manolas after the Giallorosi ...
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Wake Up Call: Yoga Girl in the Greek Islands
Wake Up Call: Yoga Girl in the Greek Islands. Yoga woman of the world, Rachel Brathen, shows us how she do in the AM. Posted in Wake Up Call ...
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The 20 Most Fun Colleges In America
Higher education is certainly an opportunity to study and learn, but college can also be the most fun four years in someone's life. There's good reason for this — college is a time of seemingly endless parties, a constant supply of alcohol, and cherished sports teams to cheer on with fellow students. In order to find the most fun colleges in the country, we looked at 12 categories from The Princeton Review's 2015 college rankings, combining the rankings to determine the most overall fun schools in the country. Click here to read our complete methodology. Many of the schools that made our list share common traits. The typical "fun" school, based on our results, is a large public university with a strong Greek life and competitive athletics. This is not to say that these colleges are all play and no work. Many of these schools were nationally ranked for their academics as well. Clemson University was our number one most fun college, but only appeared on five of the 12 Princeton Review lists we considered. However, while not the number one school in any category, Clemson placed in the top three on every list it was included on, including Students Love These Colleges, Happiest Students, and Students Pack The Stadiums.#20 Miami University Oxford, Ohio Miami houses the founding chapters of several now-national fraternities and still maintains a large and active Greek life. One of Princeton Review's top Party Schools, Miami students always have somewhere to party, either at a frat house or a local bar. #19 Auburn University Auburn, Alabama The Princeton Review's top Jock School, Auburn Tiger football games are packed with students shouting "War Eagle" — the school's battle cry — especially during the annual Iron Bowl against rival the University of Alabama. The most recent matchup between the two SEC powerhouses was named "Game of the Year" by ESPN following an unbelievable last minute upset by Auburn. #18 Bucknell University Lewisburg, Pennsylvania A small school with a large Greek scene, more than half of Bucknell's students are in a fraternity or sorority. With not much else to do in the surrounding area, students' social lives are pretty much restricted to campus — where there is always a lot of alcohol and someone throwing a party. See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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Another Do-Nothing Clergy-Laity Congress Passes
Another Clergy-Laity Congress is over and it looks once again as if Greek Education was “thrown under the bus.” The post Another Do-Nothing Clergy-Laity Congress Passes appeared first on The National Herald.
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Greek Word Study Tool
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Our Methodology For The 20 Most Fun Colleges
We recently released a list of the most fun colleges based on a compilation of several rankings from The Princeton Review's 2015 Best Colleges book. In order to determine the lists that were included in our ranking, we looked for categories that would show a strong social life, high student investment in athletics, and lots of alcohol. Once we identified these Princeton Review categories, we inverted the lists in order to award a larger amount of points to the schools ranked higher. For example, 20 points went to the #1 school on a list, 19 points to the #2, 18 to the #3, and so on through #20, which received a single point. We then added up all the points we designated to each school to determine an overall ranking. Although no school appeared in all the lists we surveyed, every college in our top 20 was featured in three or more Princeton Review rankings. Our highest ranked school — Clemson University — recieved 94 overall points. Our lowest ranked school in the top 20 — Miami University — recieved 36 points. We broke any ties in our list by giving the advantage to the school with the higher ranking in a common category. In some cases, we used editorial discretion to award a school a higher position on our list based on which categories they were included in. We also removed any schools that were only included on three more general rankings — Their Students Love These Colleges, Happiest Students, Best Quality of Life. Here are the Princeton Review rankings we compiled for our list: Their Students Love These Colleges Students Study the Least Everyone Plays Intramural Sports Best Athletic Facilities Party Schools Jock Schools Lots of Hard Liquor Lots of Beer Lots of Greek Life College City Gets High Marks Happiest Students Best Quality of Life Read the entire list here FOLLOW US! Check Out BI Colleges On Facebook Join the conversation about this story »
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Why A Black Greek Organization Sued Lil TerRio
Lil TerRio done messed up with the Greeks! Special K reports the Vine sensation is being sued by Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity! Listen to this edition of ...
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Failing Workers Get Job Guarantees
Greek workers who can't do their jobs and fail evaluations won't be fired or have further pay cuts but will undergo re-training. The post Failing Workers Get Job Guarantees appeared first on The National Herald.
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Preview: Asteras Tripolis vs 1. FSV Mainz 05
FSV Mainz 05 in the 2nd leg of their 3rd qualifying round for the Europa League tonight in Tripolis, Greece. The German side hold a 1-0 advantage ...
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The Italian Conundrum
Italy's economic plight might be less obvious than Greece's epic bust of the past few years, but it's no less tragic. And potentially more dangerous.
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Judge denies motion to lift prayer injunction against Pittsylvania County
Stanley cited Town of Greece, N.Y. v. Galloway, in which the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that Christian prayer at government meetings does not violate ...
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Greek government red-faced over property tax error
Crisis-hit Greece's government was scrambling on Wednesday to correct errors in a new property tax that forced homeowners to pay vastly inflated sums. Property owners across the country were in uproar after the values used to calculate the tax increased tenfold compared to last year, while even incomplete buildings were charged the full levy. In parliament, lawmakers from both parties in the ...
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Farney: Greek dessert a snap with shredded phyllo dough from store
My introduction to kataifi (pronounced kah-tah-EE-fee) came at a Greek restaurant. This dessert, so tasty and rich, is made from fine shreds of phyllo ...
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Students get firsthand view of world history
A group of 30 Dublin City Schools students ages 13 to 16 visited Greece and Italy this summer as part of the district's new Global Education program.
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New Fox-Sized Dinosaur Unearthed In Venezuela
The fossil of a new two-legged, fox-sized dinosaur relative of both Stegosaurus and Triceratops, which dates back about 200 million years, has been discovered in Venezuela. The find suggests that dinosaurs advanced quickly across the globe after a mass extinction claimed at least half of all species on Earth, researchers say. This new fossil, the first named dinosaur unearthed from northern South America, also provides evidence that dinosaurs lived in herds early on in their evolution, and were able to dwell in regions previously thought too inhospitable for dinosaurs to survive. The new dinosaur is named Laquintasaura venezuelae. Laquintasaura is Greek for "lizard of La Quinta," the rock formation where the reptile was discovered in the Andes, while venezuelae refers to the country of Venezuela, where the dinosaur was unearthed. [See Images of the Newfound Little Dinosaur] The dinosaur was about 3 feet (1 meter) long and only stood up to about 1 foot (0.3 m) high. Judging by its teeth, it was an omnivore. "The teeth are very unusual, with a tall, narrow triangular outline, tips that are slightly curved backward, coarse serrations along the margins and thin ridges that extend up and along the crown," said lead study author Paul Barrett, a vertebrate paleontologist at the Natural History Museum in London. "This combination of features is unknown in any other dinosaur. Although the triangular shape and coarse serrations suggest that plants made up most of the diet, the tall outline is reminiscent of meat-eating teeth, as are the slightly curved tips, so it is possible that Laquintasaura took small prey such as large insects some of the time." Laquintasaura was an ornithischian or "bird-hipped" dinosaur, an early relative of titans such as duck-billed hadrosaurs, the armored stegosaurs and ankylosaurs, and three-horned Triceratops. The other major dinosaur lineage were the saurischian or "lizard-hipped" dinosaurs, which included giant long-necked sauropods such as Brachiosaurus and predatory theropods such as Velociraptor and T. rex. (Birds actually evolved from saurischians, not the so-called bird-hipped ornithischians.) Laquintasaura lived about 200 million years ago, "placing it in the earliest part of the Jurassic period, a time when dinosaurs were just starting their ascent to global dominance," Barrett told Live Science. This dinosaur was alive soon after the end-Triassic mass extinction event. This mass extinction was one of the big five mass extinctions to affect life on Earth — the most recent one, the end-Cretaceous, which was about 67 million years ago, ended the age of dinosaurs. Dinosaurs originated about 230 million years ago, in the late Triassic, but only achieved global dominance beginning 30 million years later, after the cataclysmic end of the Triassic. [Wipe Out! History's 7 Most Mysterious Extinctions] "In many ways, this extinction was a major help to dinosaurs, as it killed off a number of other reptile groups that might have been competitors," Barrett said. "Laquintasaura is known only 500,000 years after the extinction, and shows that ornithischians were quick off the mark during this recovery period." Recently, scientists have unearthed a trove of early saurischian dinosaurs, such as meat-eating Eodromaeus and plant-eating Eoraptor. However, early ornithischian fossils have proven quite scarce — this new discovery helps fill a major gap in what scientists know of dinosaur evolutionary history. At least four specimens of Laquintasaura were uncovered together. This finding suggests that ornithischians may have practiced herd behavior early in their evolution. Until now, complex social behavior among ornithischians was confirmed only in dinosaurs of the Late Jurassic onward, dozens of millions of years after Laquintasaura was alive. In addition, Laquintasaura apparently lived near the equator, which past research suggested was inhospitable to dinosaurs. "Climate models had suggested that the equatorial regions may have been isolated from other regions by extensive deserts on either side, which may have acted as a barrier to prevent large animals reaching this region," Barrett said. "However, plant fossils from the area, and the discovery of Laquintasaura, suggest that the climate must have been capable of supporting at least some animals for at least part of the year, though it's unclear just how hospitable the area was all year round." A couple of fossil teeth the researchers discovered from another species "demonstrate that a meat-eating dinosaur was also present, but these teeth are the only evidence that we found for such an animal. No other fossils from other animal groups have been found," Barrett said. Many other details remain unknown about what the area was like when this dinosaur lived. "Some of the rocks in the general area of the discovery represent semiarid environments, while others indicate more swampy environments," Barrett said. "The climate would have been hot, but the amount of water would have varied through time." In the future, "it would be interesting to do more work on the specific environment that the bones come from, as well as the processes that concentrated the bones into the rich jumbled layer that was found," Barrett said. The scientists detailed their findings online Aug. 6 in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Follow us @livescience, Facebook & Google+. Original article on Live Science. Image Gallery: Dinosaur Daycare Paleo-Art: Dinosaurs Come to Life in Stunning Illustrations 5 Fossil Hotspots: National Parks to Visit Copyright 2014 LiveScience, a TechMediaNetwork company. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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TV Boyfriend Smackdown: Cappie vs. Evan from 'Greek'
This week, we're heading back to college to hang out with the two kings of campus (at least, in their minds) in ABC's Family's once-amazing Greek.
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Hercules: Out with the demigods and in with the mortals
Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson is seen cladded in leather attire while swinging his swords and clubs at his enemies with Greek conviction. PHOTO: FILE.
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Island Spirit: My Greek yoga retreat
Silver Island comprises 60 acres of olive groves and cypress trees rising out of the sea The classes take place in the great outdoors The classes take place in the great outdoors My journey from Dublin to Silver Island was something of an expedition.
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Self-organized Factory VIOME in Thessaloniki, Greece
“The workers of Vio.Me., a building materials factory in Thessaloniki, Greece, which was abandoned by its owners, have been unpaid since May 2011.
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Market rout continues; Greek stocks lose 4%
Any brief respite at the start of the trading week looked increasingly like a "dead cat bounce" on Wednesday, with global investors continuing to shun ...
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Greek ferry to employ renewable energy technology
Greek ferry Blue Star Delos, owned by Blue Star Ferries (BSF), will be upgraded with renewable energy technology through a joint project with a ...
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Greek Goddess Inspired Hairstyles
Greek Goddesses were considered to be among the most beautiful women in the world from Aphrodite, the goddess of love, to Hera, the goddess of ...
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Attica Parks’ Access Banned
In an attempt to keep out drug addicts and the homeless, Greece is restricting access to public parks in the Athens area. The post Attica Parks’ Access Banned appeared first on The National Herald.
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The Dynamics Of Aregbesola's 'Stomach Infrastructure' And Their Greek Gift
'Stomach Infrastructure' is the lesson we are supposed to take away from the recent Ekiti Gubernatorial election. Stomach infrastructure is what it says, ...
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Greek Media Merger Law Passes During Strike
An amendment allowing easier mergers of Greek media companies swept through a summer session of Parliament on Aug. 5 although two parties walked out in disgust, saying it was designed to buy good publicity for the struggling coalition government led by Prime Minister Antonis Samaras' New Democracy Conservatives. The post Greek Media Merger Law Passes During Strike appeared first on The National Herald.
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Gas exploitation demands a stable framework
The priority now is for Greece to establish a stable framework so that foreign companies that express an interest in exploiting possible energy sources ...
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