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Thursday, August 27, 2015

Greece’s Debt-Reduction Red Herring

Greece’s third bailout program could underpin a swift recovery in the country, provided of course that the hastily scheduled election in September does not derail the program once more. While the new bailout and reform package is being passed, the debate ...


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Top judge Thanou becomes Greece's first female prime minister

Greece's caretaker prime minister Vassiliki Thanou (l) escorts outgoing Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras following a handover ceremony at the prime ...


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China: The new Spanish Empire?

The Chinese turmoil roiling markets right now presents a fresh and profound challenge to the world economy: For the first time, a giant, non-European superpower threatens world financial stability and the powers that be seem at a loss. If the IMF and World Bank have stumbled with Greece, how are they going to get a […]


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What's next for Greek Isles after closing South End eatery?

The owners of Greek Isles are actively searching for a new — albeit smaller— home in Charlotte. There's been overwhelming interest in what's next for ...


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Thanou chosen as interim Greek prime minister

Ed AdamczykATHENS , Greece, Aug. 27 (UPI) -- Vassiliki Thanou, presiding judge of Greece's Supreme Court, will lead the country's government until elections are held, the president announced Thursday.


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Greek Judge Sworn In as Premier to Take Country to Elections

… become caretaker prime minister during Greece’s debt crisis, following the …


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Olympiacos F.C. Lands Tough 2015-2016 UEFA Champions League Draw

Olympiacos FC will face strong opposition in the group stages of the UEFA Champions League in order to advance to the next round. The Greek Superleague champions were placed against Bayern Munich, Arsenal and Dinamo Zagreb in Group F during the 2015-2016 UEFA Champions League draw on Thursday. Bayern Munich have been the German league champions for the past


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Contemporary Art Exhibition in Greece Analyzes European Transitional Period

The group exhibition “In Flux” will be hosted at “Leonidas Kanellopoulos” Cultural Center in Elefsina, Greece, from September 1 through October 9, bringing together international contemporary artists, whose work addresses and reflects upon the current state of influx in our world. The show will emphasize on the way artists are involved and respond to the rapid political


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Greek Shipping Minister: 200,000 Migrants and Refugees in Greece Since Beginning of 2015

Greek Shipping Minister Thodoris Dritsas announced on Wednesday that 200,000 migrants and refugees have entered the Greek borders in 2015, with 100,000 having arrived in the country in the past two months. Dritsas cited bureaucratic limitations as a cause of the delayed transportation of the thousands of migrants and refugees from the Greek islands to mainland Greece. He


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Greek-French Academy Award Winner Desplat to Close Athens Open Air Film Festival

This year’s Athens Open Air Film Festival will come to an end on Saturday, September 5, with a special screening at the Greek Film Archive. Greek-French composer and Academy Award winner Alexandre Desplat, who performed at the Odeon of Herodes Atticus a few days ago, will attend the special screening of Wes Anderson’s 2009 film


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Greek Council of State Cancels Govt Recall of Hellas Gold Mining Study Permit

The controversy over mining projects in northern Greece continues as the Greek Council of State cancelled the Productive Reconstruction, Environment and Energy Ministry’s decision to recall the permits for Hellas Gold‘s technical mining studies in northern Greece. The country’s supreme court argued that the recall of the permit is baseless. On August 19, Productive Reconstruction, Environment and Energy Minister Panos Skourletis had


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Greek Bank Deposits Dropped to 2003 Levels in July

Greek banks lost 39.4 billion euros in deposits between January and July. The Bank of Greece (BoG) announced on Thursday that Greek households withdrew 1.43 billion euros from Greek banks in the month of July, thus lowering the total Greek bank deposits ...


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Greek government closer to early elections

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece came one step closer on Thursday to ... into office later Thursday, becoming Greece's first female prime minister.


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Greece Appoints 1st Female Prime Minister Ahead of Snap Poll

Greece's 1st female prime minister sworn in to head interim government ahead of early election


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Supreme Court Judge to Be Sworn in as Greek Prime Minister

Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos has appointed Supreme Court judge Vassiliki Thanou to lead a caretaker government ahead of elections ...


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ION Chocolate & Ice Cream

I often tell non-Greeks that when it comes to food, Greece is not only the place to go for the types of Greek cuisine you might imagine: mousaka, roasted lamb, ultrafresh fish, and various types of sweets – from bakalava to galaktomboureko to kataifi – but it also the place where you will find a […] The post ION Chocolate & Ice Cream appeared first on The National Herald.


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Greek President Appoints Caretaker Prime Minister Ahead of Early Elections

Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos appointed on Thursday the head of the country's Supreme Court, Vassiliki Thanou, as the caretaker prime minister ahead of the early general elections. Thanou, who became the first female Greek prime minister, will swear her oath of office later on Thursday, while her cabinet will be inaugurated on Friday, daily Kathimerini informs. The exact date of the early elections will be announced by Pavlopoulos by the end fo the week, the most likely date being September 20. Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras announced his resignation last week after his government lost its parliamentary majority following a major rebellion within the SYRIZA party. The dissent within the main ruling party was caused by the agreement of the third bailout programme between the government in Athens and its international creditors. Earlier on Wednesday, Tsipras ruled out forming a national unity government with the conservative New Democracy, socialist PASOK or the centrist To Potami party in case his party fails to win an outright majority in the forthcoming elections.


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London stock market posts biggest rally since 2011

Latest: FTSE 100 jumps by 3.5%Analyst: This is why you don’t sellUS GDP beats forecastsWhat the experts saySummary: Chinese rally calms marketsAuthorities ‘bought shares’ ahead of WW2 paradeTom Phillips on the struggles of China’s poor 6.22pm BST Wall Street continues to rally, recovering more of this week’s losses after today’s growth figures helped shore up confidence.Stocks (not socks as I wrote earlier, drat it) are hitting their highest levels of the day, pushing the Dow Jones index up 377 points, or 2.3%. 6.15pm BST Greece’s first female prime minister, top supreme court judge Vassiliki Thanou, has just been sworn in.Official handover at PM's office #Greece #elections pic.twitter.com/FdI6BiXPKUHabemus Minister Primus. #Greece pic.twitter.com/0K4Ay69gla Related: First female prime minister for Greece announced Continue reading...


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On Lesbos island, tourist comforts clash with migrant needs

On the Greek island of Lesbos, a record influx of desperate migrants has left the tourist sector struggling to help out while still trying to keep its normal clientele.


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Greece's National Bank names Kyriakopoulos as new CFO

The CFO position at National Bank of Greece has been vacant since Paula Hatzisotiriou resigned in May. (Reporting by Angeliki Koutantou; editing by ...


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Vassiliki Thanou: Greece’s first female Prime Minister to take the country to elections

For the first time in its history, Greece will have a female Prime Minister, albeit PM in an interim government. After fruitless negotiations to form a new coalition government following PM Tsipras resignation, the President of the Republic named Vassiliki Thanou, top judge of the Supreme to form a caretaker […]


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Greek Supreme Court leader named country's 1st female prime minister

The president of Greece's supreme court Thursday was named head of a caretaker government that will lead the country until elections expected next ...


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Tsipras gambles on outright poll victory

With his Syriza party split, many see the Greek prime minister’s optimism as misplaced


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Greek Supreme Court chief named transitional PM

… Chouliarakis, a key member in Greece's financial team during … after receiving mandates, under the Greek Constitution the president named the … Democracy party, the socialists of PASOK, the centrist Potami (River) party …


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Greece names first woman as interim PM

… Thanou becomes Greece's first female prime minister Greece's … : centre-right New Democracy, the socialist Pasok party or the small centrist … not be running for the Greek parliament in the September elections …


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Greece crisis: Former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis will not stand in 'sad' election next month ...

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras' left-wing Syriza party said it would not allow Mr Varoufakis and others who voted against Greece's latest bailout ...


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Tsipras's main rivals in Greece's election race

A veteran leftwinger who, like Alexis Tsipras, Greece's prime minister, began his political career in the pro-Moscow Greek communist party.


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Latvia, Greece win opt-out from Monsanto GM crop

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Monsanto said it would abide by Latvia's and Greece's requests under a new EU opt-out law to be excluded from its ...


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First Greek Female Prime Minister Sworn in Office

Vassiliki Thanou-Christophilou became Greece’s first female Prime Minister on Thursday evening. Thanou, the former Greek Supreme Court President, was sworn in on Thursday evening by the President of the Hellenic Republic, Prokopis Pavlopoulos. Following the resignation of former Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and the inability of the other political parties to form a new government, Thanou was


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UNICEF Setting Up Children Zone Near Greek-FYROM Border

UNICEF announced that it would set up a child-friendly zone in the area near the Greek-FYROM border for underage refugee and migrant children seeking asylum. Over the last weeks, thousands of asylum seekers have arrived at the border between the two countries seeking a way to travel to northern Europe and escape their war-torn countries.


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European bailout fund chief upbeat on Greece

Klaus Regling, head of the European bailout fund ESM, is upbeat about Greece. There's a lot of work to be done to restructure the economy - but if ...


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Free Athens Seminar to Work and Study in Australia

The AISI free seminar on Sept 8 in Athens, is a unique opportunity to learn about working and studying in Australia, work visa and immigration from the experts. With Greece’s unemployment rate being the highest in the European Union, Greeks are looking for opportunities outside the physical borders of their country to study and work.


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Greece: Time for Some Forgiveness

A taxi ride through the Peloponnese is an eye opening experience. It’s about 300 kilometres and a three hour drive from Kalamata to Athens. The fee is 250 euros or about 380 dollars; more than half a month’s income for the average Greek. The views are ...


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Greece's first female Prime Minister: A short profile of Vassiliki Thanou

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President Pavlopoulos says Greece has taken decision to remain in Eurozone

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Varoufakis will not participate in ‘sad’ Greek elections

The popular former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis said Thursday he would not take part in snap elections in Greece expected next month as the country’s top Supreme Court judge was named the head of a caretaker government.


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Looking for a home

FINLAND, with its baffling language and culture of reserve, is not an easy place for outsiders to penetrate. For Nura Farah, the breakthrough came via the dissected brains of dead cows. Ms Farah, who arrived with her mother in 1993 as a teenager seeking asylum from Somalia’s civil war, spent eight years dreaming of a better life in London while she was taunted at school and bore racist abuse on the streets. But in 2001, working as a lab technician in Helsinki, she found herself charged with testing cow tissue for bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad-cow disease. The work was fulfilling, her colleagues encouraging, and she moved on to bigger challenges. She took on Finnish citizenship, gave birth to a son and last year became the first Somali Finn to publish a novel. Finland is a long way from the migrant trouble that has erupted across Europe this summer. But as a country with little history of immigration that has had to integrate an unfamiliar minority, its experience resonates. Most EU countries will soon start receiving asylum-seekers from Italy and Greece, the main entry-points for illegal migrants. Many residents, particularly in Europe’s...


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Op-Ed/It’s not a refugee crisis, it’s the result of certain policies

Nicosia, August 27, 2015/ Independent Balkan News Agency By Neoklis Sylikiotis – AKEL MEP, Vice President of the Group of the European United Left Since early 2015, 235.000 refugees arrived on the coasts of Italy and Greece (over 100,000 in Italy and around 135,000 in Greece). At the same time the International Organisation for Migration […]


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Supreme Court Head Named Greece’s First Female Premier, Caretaker Role

Greece's President has appointed the head of the country's Supreme Court as Prime Minister to lead a caretaker government as the country heads to early elections next month. The post Supreme Court Head Named Greece’s First Female Premier, Caretaker Role appeared first on The National Herald.


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Greece names interim leader

Greece has named its top judge as caretaker prime minister to organise early elections expected next month, the fifth in the crisis-hit country in six ...


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Snap elections in Greece: nowhere near stability

Greece is entering into a new stage of political and economic uncertainty since the new bailout deal has been approved and snap elections have ...


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Greece names top judge as caretaker PM ahead of snap vote

Athens (AFP) - Greece on Thursday named its top judge as caretaker prime minister to organise early elections expected next month, the fifth in the ...


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Supreme Court judge Vassiliki Thanou will lead Greece to elections

The head of Greece's new caretaker government has been named as Vassiliki Thanou, the country's top Supreme Court judge. The president's office ...


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Anti-austerity judge Thanou becomes first female Greek PM

A vocal anti-austerity advocate, she made a name for herself as a judge who openly battled against wage cuts imposed on the Greek judiciary to ...


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Salt Lake Greek Festival marks 40 years of fabulous tradition

"The Greek Orthodox Church of Greater Salt Lake is delighted to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the Salt Lake Greek Festival," said Alicia Mares, ...


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IMF could contribute a fifth to Greek bailout, Regling says

The International Monetary Fund will probably join Greece's third bailout and might contribute almost a fifth to the 86 billion-euro ($97 billion) program, ...


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Who Is Vassiliki Thanou? New Interim Greek Prime Minister Is First Woman To Head Government ...

The Greek government named the country's top Supreme Court judge as its new interim head of government until elections are held next month.


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Quick Bites: So many delicious reasons to Opa! at Greek Fest

It's a late summer tradition that seems to get better with age. This year marks the 52nd year of the Original Rochester Greek Fest, which is held on the ...


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This Greek Ferry Now Brings Thousands Of Refugees To Athens

ATHENS, Greece -- Almost 2,500 Syrian refugees arrived in Greece's capital Wednesday on a massive car ferry that serves as a shuttle and floating accommodation center, Greek news agency ANA-MPA reports.   The Greek government chartered the Eleftherios Venizelos ship nearly a week ago to relieve local authorities on the Greek islands who had been struggling to cope with the influx of hundreds of migrants each day. The ship, a car ferry that can hold up to 2,500 people, serves as an accommodation and identification center for Syrian refugees and a ferry to transfer them from their points of entry on the Greek islands to the port of Piraeus in Athens. The United Nations refugee agency estimates that 160,000 people have arrived in Greece since the beginning of the year -- almost four times as many as came in all of 2014. Most of them are refugees fleeing the wars in Syria and Afghanistan who have risked their lives crossing the eastern Aegean Sea from Turkey to the islands of Kos, Samos, Chios, Lesbos, Kalymnos or Leros.  But local authorities on the islands previously struggled to accommodate the migrants and facilitate their passage. Many had no other option than to camp out in public spaces, without access to medical and sanitary facilities. Reuters notes that Syrians have received priority access to the ferry over people arriving from other countries because they are considered refugees. The Eleftherios Venizelos made its first journey in its new capacity on Aug. 19, departing from the island of Kos with 1,700 passengers. It stopped at the islands of Kalymnos and Leros where it picked up almost 1,000 more. Since then, the ship has made the journey nearly every day filled to capacity. Upon arriving in Athens, most of the refugees immediately leave for the border, hoping to make their way through Serbia into Western Europe. Those who wish to stay, however, can find temporary shelter in a newly built reception center in the Athens neighborhood of Eleonas. To help Greece cope with the surging number of arrivals, the European Commission plans to immediately unlock 2.7 million euros ($3 million) to support efforts by the U.N. to handle the emergency in the country. Also on HuffPost:  -- 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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A Look at Greece’s Messy Fiscal Policy

To see how Greece descended so far into debt and economic calamity that the powers at be in the European Union, particularly Germany, are considering kicking it out of the club, you need to start with the years of fiscal irresponsibility exhibited by the ...


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