A Night in Athens will play Greek music, and Hellenic dancers will perform. Children can enjoy the Athenian playground, which will have a 20-foot ...
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How the world sees Greece
Saturday, May 9, 2015
US Stocks Sell Off On Trade Data, Greece Concerns
US stocks traded lower weighed down by mixed trading data that added to US economic growth concerns and jitters that Greece would not be able to ...
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Former Chelsea star Michael Essien in talks with Greek giants Panathinaikos
Greek giants Panathinaikos have started negotiations with Ghana midfielder Michael Essien over a move in the summer when his contract expires ...
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Wolfgang Schaeuble says defaults can surprise as Greece crams for ECB talks
"European institutions plus the IMF and Greek authorities are trying to find a solution, but the solution is in the hands of Greek authorities," European ...
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Critical choices loom ahead of Eurogroup, IMF repayment
Greek officials are bracing for a difficult Eurogroup summit in Brussels on Monday after what promises to be a weekend of feverish negotiations with representatives of Greece’s international creditors as European officials increase the pressure on Athens to compromise and avert a default.
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World War II Reparations Campaign in Athens Subway
Screens across Athens subway stations are showing a government-backed film in which Greece is demanding World War II reparations from Germany. The 50-second video clip shows footage from the Nazi occupation (1941-1944) that has cost Greece hundreds of thousands deaths and hundreds of billion in damages and looting. The short film is shown in 35 metro stations of the capital. So far Berlin has acknowledged the moral obligation to compensate the families of the victims but says that the reparations issue has been settled in 1990, when the country was re-unified and a treaty was signed between Germany and the Allies — including Greece — in which they renounced all claims as the victors. “The Ministry of Defense in March met organizations working on the issue of World War II remembrance and German reparations to encourage initiatives to promote the subject, and the idea for this short was born,” Markos Charitos, who sits on the newly formed parliamentary committee that pursues war reparations, told AFP. The film shows images of German planes flying over the Parthenon and the words “World War II, resistance, we do not forget.” A series of black and white photographs shows the cost in human lives. Russia to help Greece in its pursuit of World War II reparations Moscow is to help Athens in the investigation for World War II reparations from Germany by providing access to Russian archives from the period. Following a request by Alternate Defense Minister Costas Isichos, the Russian Embassy in Athens has provided Greek authorities with a list of archives, including documents, photographs and footage.
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Greece calls on EU/IMF lenders to show political will for deal
Greece needs to pay a 750 million euro IMF loan this week and pensions and public sector wages at the end of the month, and Athens hopes for the ...
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HuffPost Editors Go Head-To-Head Over Greece's Debt Crisis
As Greece continues to struggle with debt repayments to its international creditors, there is much discussion in Europe about the cash-strapped country's financial stability and need for labor market reforms. In the video above, Huffington Post editors from around the world -- including Greece, Spain and Germany -- discuss the debt crisis and Greece's next moves with HuffPost Live's Caroline Modarressy-Tehrani. Click here to watch the full segment in which HuffPost editors discuss other news from Europe. Sign up here for Live Today, HuffPost Live's new morning email that will let you know the newsmakers, celebrities and politicians joining us that day and give you the best clips from the day before! -- This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. It may be used for personal consumption, but may not be distributed on a website.
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Ireland has Limited Lessons for Greece's Recovery
In response to Greece's more combative approach to its bailout since the anti-austerity Syriza Party came into office in January, unsympathetic ...
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Weekend Brings Risk Ahead Of Eurogroup Meeting
By Craig Erlam. Greece finds itself on the brink of default and facing a possible exit from the eurozone, banking collapse, and massive financial crisis.
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Majority of new nurses at Walsall Manor Hospital will be from Italy and Greece
Health chiefs have started the recruitment process which will see officials speak with potential recruits from Rome and Greece. If this fails they will then ...
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US calls on Greece to build gas pipeline to Azerbaijan
The United States urged the Greek authorities to abandon the "Turkish Stream" gas pipeline project in favor of the Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP), which ...
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US urges Greece to go for Azeri-Turkish pipeline against Russia
Cash-strapped Greece has been making overtures to Russia since a leftist ... That is what's on the table for Greece today," Amos Hochstein, the U.S. ...
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Continuous Meetings Within Greek Gov't for Monday's Eurogroup
The Greek government is in a series of feverish meetings ahead of Monday's Eurogroup and after technical discussions with lenders' representatives ...
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Turkish President to Bargain Halki Theological School for Mosque in Thessaloniki
According to the report, Erdogan wants the Greek government to allow the opening of a mosque in the northern city Thessaloniki, which is the ...
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More than 6 in 10 want compromise
Most Greeks want the government to reach a compromise with its creditors while public support for the method of negotiation being pursued is waning, a new opinion poll shows.
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Mayors hold firm against donating reserves
With the country’s cash reserves running dangerously low, the union representing Greece’s municipalities voted over the weekend against handing over their cash reserves in line with a decree issued by the government last month obliging state entities to transfer their spare money to the Bank of Greece.
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Samaras warns memorandum back on the cards
Amid growing upheaval within his own party, New Democracy leader Antonis Samaras lashed out at the SYRIZA-led government over the weekend, claiming that the leftists had lied to the Greek people and were leading the country into a new memorandum.
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Migrants intercepted off Cape Tenaro taken to Kalamata
Greek coast guard officers intercepted a group of 170 undocumented migrants on a vessel about 60 nautical miles off Cape Tenaro, in the western Peloponnese, last Friday.
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Varoufakis’ book in Madrid airport bookstore – PHOTO
For all those interested in reading Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis’ book titled ‘Talking to my daughter about the economy’, they can find it at a Madrid airport bookstore, newspaper Ethnos reported. The book, translated in Spanish, titled ‘Economy ...
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Eurogroup President: ‘We are Not Very Close to an Agreement With Greece’
“A solution will be found for Greece” stated Eurogroup president Jeroen Dijsselbloem in an interview with the Saturday edition of Corriera della Sera newspaper. “On financial terms we are now more powerful than three years ago when the Athens crisis hit and now there is more trust regarding the recovery. Politically however, we must prove that we are united over the solution of the problems. The currency union is strong but it must face the lack of the political union” stated Dijsselbloem. He also added that “all Eurogroup members are determined to keep Greece in the eurozone and to help the country return to growth and sustainability.” To a question if a plan B is ready, Eurogroup president explained “we are ready for everything but as politicians, as I said, we are determined to work in order the financial condition in Greece to become sustainable in the eurozone.” Regarding the ongoing negotiations he said “we have made progress but we are not very close to an agreement. An agreement will not be reached at the Eurogroup meeting on Monday. More time is needed but I do not know how much time. There is no deadline for the agreement with Athens.” Asked if the Greek government has cash only for a few days, Dijsselbloem said “nobody knows or maybe only the Greek government knows.” On the Greek government’s proposals, he said that “I know that a series of proposals were tabled but they must be evaluated. We at the Eurogroup are only interested in the final targets. Meaning, Athens to state the course in order to reach a fiscal sustainability with the success of primary surplus, the return to growth through the necessary reforms and to the financial stability of the banking system. These are the three pylons of the plan.” (source: ana-mpa)
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First Cannabis Festival in Greece
The first cannabis festival in Greece is taking place today at Syntagma Square in Athens with the participation of the organized SYRIZA youth and the human rights department of the party. The advocates of legalization of cannabis who have organized the festival call it Athens Cannabis Protestival and they ask for legalization of cannabis and soft drugs and the decriminalization of users. The festival organizers say that such an act would benefit the Greek economy. It would bring sizeable revenues to the state through a state-run cannabis production industry that would also create 40,000 employment positions. Such a prospect would bring 2.5 billion euros a year and help the Greek economy come out of the slump, they say. Festival organizers have called on Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to attend the festival since in the past he had supported the movement to legalize cannabis and soft drugs. What they are asking is the legalization and cultivation of cannabis for personal use for therapeutic and entertainment purposes. The protest part of the festival is to ask for the “right of an individual to use the euphoric substance of their choice.” The poster of the festival depicts ancient goddess Athena cultivating the cannabis plant. The two main sponsors of the festival are two Spanish websites selling cannabis seeds. The festival organizers propose that Greece adopts the Uruguay model, according to which each citizen has the right to cultivate up to six plants for personal use, the forming of non-profit cannabis social clubs, and the state selling certain quantities per year to adults at low prices. They believe that with the current government in Greece the time is ripe for such a radical move.
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German FinMin: No Deal for Greece at Monday’s Eurogroup
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said that he doesn’t expect a deal between Greece and its creditors at Monday’s Eurogroup session. Speaking to German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung on Saturday, Schaeuble said that it is very unlikely that Greece will get any funds in exchange of proposed reforms on Monday’s meeting of euro zone finance ministers. “I don’t see that everything will be solved by then,” the German finance minister said. When asked whether the German government was prepared for a Greek default, Schaeuble said: “There are questions that a responsible politician may not answer.” Schaeuble also said enigmatically that, “Experience elsewhere in the world has shown that a country can suddenly become unable to pay its bills.” However, the finance minister added that Germany would do everything to keep Greece in the euro zone “under responsible conditions.” Speaking of his Greek counterpart Yanis Varoufakis and the friction they had in the past, Schaeuble said that they are both finance ministers and carry responsibilities, but they have a good cooperation.
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ND Leader Samaras: The Country Is Being Led to a New Memorandum
Main opposition New Democracy (ND) leader Antonis Samaras estimated that the country is being led to a tax storm raid and to a new memorandum resulting into the creation of recession and new deficits, speaking on Saturday to a party event in the northeastern Greek city of Xanthi. Samaras in his address sternly attacked the SYRIZA government underlining that they received a Greece with surpluses and has conducted it to deficits adding that “the country is led to a new memorandum. Despite the name they will give to the new agreement, and this will have prior conditions in order for the country to borrow money — it will have supervision and a strict one. It will have a troika.” ND leader appeared self-critical on the measures his government had implemented underlining “It was not in our ideology to impose taxes. Unfortunately, we were forced to impose them. Our biggest mistake was that we did not succeed to pass to the people the temporary character of these measures and of the taxes imposed in order for the country to exit from the financial impasse.” Samaras also referred to a series of other measures that undertook the government in several sectors of the society such as education, public administration as well as on migration noting that it cancelled all the reforms that had started to be implemented. (source: ana-mpa)
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Dijsselbloem: 'Greece not done enough to earn more aid'
Dutch Finance Minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem, who leads the euro-area finance ministers’ group, told Corriere della Sera on Saturday Greece hasn’t yet done enough to earn more aid. “We have made progress, but we are not very close to an ...
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Outside No 11, the world remains as uncertain as ever for the chancellor
Election victory puts George Osborne back in the hot seat, but doesn’t give him any more influence than before over the global economy’s upheavalsWhen George Osborne was offering his post-match analysis in the bleary aftermath of the Tories’ stunning victory on Friday morning, he singled out the Greek debt crisis as the first challenge he will face on returning to No 11.Both Osborne and Balls, his Labour opposite number, fought the general election campaign as though whoever won would be entirely the master of Britain’s economic destiny. Yet chancellors are always to some extent the prisoners of outside events; and the new government, with its slim majority, could be buffeted by any of a series of threats in the global economy. Continue reading...
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EU to try hard to avoid Greek pullout: Analyst
Press TV has conducted an interview with Paolo Raffone, the secretary general of the CIPI Foundation in Brussels, about Greece's Prime Minister ...
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FM Kotzias: Greece Remains Dedicated to the European Framework
“Greece’s active participation in the dialogue for the improvement and deepening of the European Union is the guarantee for a better and more just future for all Greek and European citizens in a Europe of peace, stability, prosperity and humanity” noted Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias in his message on Saturday May 9, Europe’s Day. Today marks the passing of 65 years since Robert Schuman’s historic Declaration, which laid the cornerstone of the European edifice. With the scars of the destruction of World War II still fresh throughout Europe, the vision of the pioneers of the European idea brought countries divided by centuries of conflict to the table of understanding and cooperation. Despite the difficulties encountered from time to time, the cooperation of the member states gradually grew in strength on an institutional and political level, in parallel with the successive enlargements that widened the Union’s embrace to include the greater part of the continent’s population. The current state of affairs renders it imperative that we bear in mind Europe’s role – and Greece’s role in Europe – within a world being shaken by economic instability and major geopolitical challenges. Greece’s experience of the crisis in the Eurozone – a crisis that impacted millions of Europeans’ standard of living – was particularly harsh. However, it is moving ahead with responsibility and dignity in the negotiations with the European institutions to find a mutually beneficial solution that ensures an exit from the economic crisis and a better future for its citizens. Greece is developing a multifaceted and proactive foreign policy, with total dedication to international law, contributing substantially both to the confronting of the very acute crises being faced by the European Union and the world, and to the strengthening of regional stability. Greece also remains firmly dedicated to the European framework – the foundation of which is dialogue, deliberation and honest compromise – as well as to the common European values of institutional equality, dignity, democracy and social justice. (source: ana-mpa)
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Weighing education
The comments made in Friday’s Kathimerini by the Education Ministry’s general secretary for lifelong learning, Gerasimos Spathis, must surely be a joke. Spathis suggested that Greek universities have “demanding courses and long hours” and as such, the Greek teaching system as a whole, and students in particular, would benefit from pegging performance to class hours rather than total workload.
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Schaeuble warns of possible default by Greece
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble warned of the possibility of a surprise default by Greece, German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung reports in a pre-release of its Sunday edition. "Experiences elsewhere have shown that a country can suddenly slip into ...
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UK weather: Britain hotter than Greece as 1000-mile wide African hot air plume brings 4-day warm ...
Britain will be hotter than Zakynthos, Greece, which will be 21C and will bring temperatures close to the UK's hottest day of the year, which reached ...
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Greece bailout sinks further into jeopardy as government slashes growth forecast to just 0.8%
The international bailout that Greece is relying on to stay solvent was thrown into jeopardy today when the Government revealed that it expects its economy to grow at just 0.8 per cent this year. That is well below the 1.4 per cent Greece told its ...
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Germany sees no Greek debt deal on Monday, warns against default
The minister, a close ally of Chancellor Angela Merkel, said Athens' financial situation did not seem very good and he did not know if the Greek ...
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Greek workers bear brunt as EU, gov't argue over debt payments
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, leader of the Coalition of the Radical Left party, known by its acronym Syriza, won the Jan. 25 elections promising ...
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Viewfinder: Greek Independence Day at Boston Common
Greek Independence Day commemorates the start of the revolt against the Ottoman Empire in 1821. The revolution ended eight years later with the ...
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New Study Shares Health Benefits of Greek Mountain Tea
A growing body of research published in a new report by bioanalytical testing firm, Brunswick Laboratories, reveals that Greek mountain tea has ...
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MKR twins are set to rule Greek food
“A lot of the dishes are Greek inspired, so mixing in a bit of Greek won't hurt and all the Greek recipes are out of our cookbook Taking You Home,” says ...
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Outdoor movie series gets them to the Greek
And since kicking off the inaugural series with “Anchorman” at the Greek three years ago, they've held movie screenings at the local venue every year ...
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MarketsNext week: Greece, BoE Inflation Report, US sales
A UK general election that delivered an unexpectedly decisive outcome sent the pound soaring this week, but investors will switch their attention ...
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German Finance Minister Warns of Possible Default by Greece -- Report
FRANKFURT--German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble warned of the possibility of a surprise default by Greece, German newspaper ...
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Greek Migration Policy Minister: Lesvos Must be ‘Emptied’ of Refugees, Migrants
Visiting Mytilene, the main town on the island of Lesvos, Greek Migration Policy Minister Tasia Christodoulopoulou underlined that a way must be found to “evacuate” the island of the hordes of migrants and refugees arriving there on a daily basis from the nearby Turkish coast. According to the minister, who arrived in Mytilene late on Thursday night with SYRIZA MP Vasiliki Katrivanou and other associates, the situation she met was one of “shame for human civilization, Greece and its traditions.” The minister took part in a meeting at the General Secretariat for the Aegean and Island Policy on Friday afternoon, where it was decided that Mytilene’s port will stop being used by the coast guard as a temporary detention area for arriving migrants and that they will be transferred to a currently underworking reception facility on the island at Moria. Earlier, Northern Aegean Region governor Christina Kalogeropoulou had relayed the complaints of cruise operators and travel agencies about the spectacle presented at Mytilene’s port, warning that they would stop visiting the island if the port continued to be used as a temporary detention center. In comments on the situation, the minister said she had been “marked” by the sight of an 81-year-old woman in a wheelchair surrounded by members of her family, as well as a group of unaccompanied children aged between six and eight years old, whose parents were missing and unaccounted for. On Friday she visited the island’s port and then facilities at an old army camp that had been converted into a reception and transit center, where she found that a large part was currently not in operation due chiefly to bureaucratic reasons and a lack of “basic organization” on the part of those in charge. The minister announced plans to use former municipal police — if they did not wish to use an option to return to their previous jobs afforded under a recent law — in order to man asylum and reception facilities on the Greek islands. There is also a plan for emergency hiring due to the urgent needs created by the flow of migrants and refugees arriving from the Turkish coast, especially on Lesvos, Greece. Christodoulopoulou later met with groups in Mytilene involved in the reception and care of the refugees and migrants. (source: ana-mpa)
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Greek municipalities leave room to review refusal to lend cash to government
In such an event and "to save the country", mayors would also offer their wages and urge Greek politicians to do the same, the union said. Last month ...
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Baruch College Bans Rushing And Pledging After Student Death And Lawsuit
All Greek rush and pledge activities have been banned for three years at Baruch College in New York City, The Washington Post reported Friday.
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The Miracle on Fifth Avenue in Brooklyn, Where Anyone Walks in and Leaves a Greek
The majority of these kids aren't Greek— but come from the diverse ethnic fabric of this great city. African, Hispanic, South American and other Latino ...
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Greece slashes economic growth forecast again in latest reform plan
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece expects its economy to grow at little more than a third of the pace it originally targeted in its 2015 budget, a reform plan drafted by the finance ministry and released on Saturday suggested, raising fresh questions about its bailout.
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Nobel Prize winner says further austerity is not the answer for Greece
“Austerity for Greece doesn't really work,” said Mr Scholes, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1997 for his work on options and derivatives pricing, ...
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Why Germany should pay war reparations to Greece
In 1960, the then Federal Republic of Germany paid Greece DM115mn Deutschmarks on account of compensation for Nazi crimes.
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The Greek debt writedown and Merkel's role in it
The Greek problem was turning into a hydra for Merkel. The initial bailout of 110 billion euros – 22.4 billion of which came from Germany – had failed ...
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Many local Greek families fled Turkish atrocities
However, being of Greek heritage, I grew up ardently aware of the genocide that occurred in Asia Minor, involving both the Armenians and the Greeks.
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Germany does not expect Greek debt deal at Monday's Eurogroup meeting
When asked whether the German government was prepared for a Greek default, Schaeuble said: "There are questions that a responsible politician ...
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