If the government imposes any more taxes on GREEK citizens, the results will be disastrous for the economy and society, main opposition leader ...
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How the world sees Greece
Monday, October 19, 2015
Meimarakis: Potential Tax Increases Will be Harmful to GREEK Economy and Society
Greek George Charalampopoulos Wins Arm Wrestling World ...
George Charalampopoulos is among the best arm wrestlers in the world after claiming the title in one of the World Championship categories this year.
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“Greek and Cypriot Education enjoy excellent relations”
Nicosia, October 19, 2015/Independent Balkan News Agency By Kyriacos Kyriacou Education Minister Costas Kadis met on Monday in Athens his Greek counterpart Nikos Filis and in statements that followed described the relations between the two Ministries as excellent, thanking at the same time Greece for its long-standing support to Cyprus. During the meeting, the two […]
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GREEK gov't to auction 10-year TV licenses
Greece plans to launch intentional auctions for 10-year television licenses, government officials said on Monday, as part of reforms agreed with the ...
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Measures insanity rules: Feel “blessed” that you don’t understand Greek
You should consider yourself literally blessed that you do not understand Greek. That you can easily resist temptation to push ON on remote control and zap through television channels or radio programs to watch or listen the current news and the accompanying comments or analyses. Or having to read the […]
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New Legislation for Greek TV Station Licenses Revealed
The Greek government revealed a new proposed piece of legislation that dictates the process for issuing licenses for Greek TV stations. The new legislation dictates how licenses will be issued, how long they are valid for, and under what circumstances they can be revoked among other conditions. New licenses will be valid for ten years. The cost of
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Stocks to Keep Your Eyes on: National Bank of GREECE (NBG), Yamana Gold (AUY), PMC-Sierra ...
National Bank of GREECE (NYSE:NBG) opened the session at $0.77, trading in a range of $0.75- $0.80, and was at $0.783. The stock showed a ...
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Two GREEK stretcher-bearers had a message to play-acting footballers everywhere
In farcical scenes that the Chuckle Brothers would have been proud of, a footballer in the GREEK second division was unceremoniously bundled off the ...
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Thievery Corporation Throws Down a Global Gauntlet at the LA GREEK
The opening set was fun but the vibe at the GREEK moved to a deeper level when the Thievery Corporation hit the stage with “Web of Deception”.
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Watch: Soccer player stretchered off, dropped by mullet-wearing medic
In a GREEK soccer game over the weekend between two second-divison teams, AEL Larissa and Ergotelis, there was some questionable medical ...
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Greek government vows major overhaul of TV licensing system as part of crackdown on corruption
Greece's leftwing government has promised to overhaul the country's private TV licensing system in the next two weeks as part of reforms it says will target corruption.
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Slovenia's Migrant and Refugees Bottleneck: By the Numbers
_By Sarah Kaufman _ A bottleneck ballooned in the Balkans on Sunday as migrants and refugees were barred from reaching Western Europe by a domino of restrictive government policies. First, Hungary closed its border to migrants and refugees on Saturday due to security concerns. Then, Slovenia said it would only allow 2,500 people to pass per day. Slovenia justified its decision by saying that because neighboring Austria only allows 1,500 people to cross daily it needs to stem the flow of migrants crossing its own border. But the blockages aren't stopping migrants and refugees from Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere from trying to take the Balkan route that goes from Turkey through Greece, Macedonia, Serbia and Croatia to western European countries like Germany and Sweden. READ MORE: MIGRANTS WARN EACH OTHER TO AVOID CROATIA'S LANDMINES Here are the numbers you need to know behind the latest bottleneck in the migrant and refugee crisis: 4,000 COLD AND TIRED PEOPLE Almost 4,000 migrants and refugees waited on Sunday for hours in Croatia, while thousands more in Serbia waited to cross into Croatia. 4 HOURS ON A BUS "We are waiting here 4 hours on the bus," Muhammad Samin from Afghanistan told the Associated Press. "The weather is too cold. We wear lots of shirts. The children are also in the cold. No food." Samin is one of thousands waiting in Serbia to get to Croatia. 1/4 ACCEPTED INTO AUSTRIA While the UN Refugee Agency said 4,000 migrants and refugees crossed into Slovenia on Saturday, before the new restriction, Austria had only accepted 1,000 of them by Sunday, the BBC reported. That means three-fourths of them were still in Slovenia. > Sredisce Ob Dravi, #Slovenia: Pushed to a new border. Slow > processing, authorities need to fine tune reception > pic.twitter.com/odRfcNsrPW-- Babar Baloch (@BabarBloch) October 18, > 2015 APPROXIMATELY 80,000 That's how many Syrians applied for asylum in Hungary before it closed off its borders to migrants, according to the UNHCR. There are over 100,000 asylum applications in Serbia from Syrian migrants and refugees, and 108,897 in Germany. 12 MORE DEAD AT SEA, INCLUDING 4 CHILDREN The perilous journey that many migrants and refugees have made from the Middle East to the Greek island of Lesbos, by sea, caused yet more tragic deaths this weekend. TWICE AS MANY BY SEA THIS YEAR 710,000 migrants and refugees reached Europe by boat in 2015 so far -- twice as many as in 2014, the E.U. border control agency reported. Another 3,000 never completed the journey, and died at sea. MORE STORIES FROM VOCATIV: * AFRICAN REFUGEES IN ISRAEL FEAR FOR THEIR SAFETY * EXCLUSIVE: IRAQI SHIITE MILITIA RECRUITER PRAISES RUSSIA'S BACKING IN SYRIA * JIHADISTS SUCCEED IN CROWDFUNDING AND RECRUITING ON SOCIAL MEDIA 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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AP News : The Orange County Register
Greek government plans major overhaul of TV licensing. Buy AP Photo Reprints: Photo Gallery: Violent protests in Greece: ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Greece's leftwing ...
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News from The Associated Press
ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Greece's leftwing government promised Monday to overhaul the country's private TV licensing system in the next two weeks as part of reforms ...
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GREEK restaurant Nissos closes in Syosset
The casual, bright white-and-Aegean blue GREEK restaurant, which opened last year in Syosset, has closed. It was the 13th restaurant on the Berry Hill ...
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Parishioners prep for annual GREEK Festival
Rachel Denny Clow/Caller-Times Anastasia Hartofilax prepare dolmades Thursday, Oct. 15, 2015, as they prepare for the 52nd annual GREEK Festival ...
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Groups share similar qualities with GREEK Life
For many people, sororities and fraternities are an integral part of college life. When most students think of GREEK associations, they envision the social ...
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Injured footballer dropped from stretcher twice in GREEK league
When Ergotelis midfielder Leonardo Koutris went down after colliding with an opponent in 17 Octobers match against Larissa in GREEK footballs ...
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Watch player get the WORST EVER medical treatment during GREEK second division game ...
Jose Mourinho may not have been impressed by his medical staff at the start of the season, but the Chelsea boss can, at least, rest assured that he is ...
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CORRECTED-UPDATE 2-Greek bond yields hit year's low after ...
Greek two-year government bondyields fell to their lowest level this year on Monday asinvestors welcomed Athens' approval of a series of reformsneeded to ...
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Russians Are Buying Up Real Estate In GREECE, Should You?
The news from GREECE over the past few years has been quite dire as the country is on the verge of bankruptcy. However, despite seemingly ...
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Alternate FM Xydakis meets with Czech Ambassador Jan Bondy
Alternate Foreign Minister Nikos Xydakis met today at the Foreign Ministry with the Czech Ambassador to Greece, Jan Bondy.The talks, which took place in an excellent climate, focused on issues of common interest, with emphasis on the further expansion and strengthening of the two countries’ bilateral relations.
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GREEK government plans major overhaul of TV licensing
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece's leftwing government has promised to overhaul the country's private TV licensing system in the next two weeks as ...
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Jackie Kennedy marries Greek billionaire Aristotle Onassis ...
After the ceremony, Onassis, sipping champagne, signed documents pledging that any children of the marriage would be brought up in the Greek Orthodox faith.
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Greece eyes new reforms as workers call strike, farmers ...
Greece's private sector umbrella union GSEE called a 24-hour strike for Nov. 12 to protest reforms demanded by the country's lenders under its third bailout.
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Report from Lesvos: without safe access to asylum, people will keep risking their lives in the Aegean
Motorised dinghies arrive on the beach near Efthalou in the north of Lesvos. Heaven Crawley, Author provided I stood in the corner of a dusty cemetery on the Greek island of Lesvos and watched a mother bury her child. As the tiny body of a baby boy wrapped in a white sheet was lifted from the boot of a car, she fell to her knees and howled with pain. The child had slipped from her arms into the cold waters of the Aegean as she made the journey from Turkey to join her husband, who had already travelled to Germany to seek protection from the war that is ravaging their home country, Syria. Her baby should not have died. The journey from Turkey to Lesvos is short and safe. If I wanted to take a ferry trip from the port of Mytiline to Ayvalik on the Turkish coast, the trip would take around an hour. I could get there and back for just €30. That’s because I’m British. I am not Syrian, Afghan, Palestinian, Iraqi, Somali or Eritrean. I am not required to put my life at risk by paying a smuggler hundreds or even thousands of euros to sit in the bottom of a motorised dingy with 30 or 40 other people to take the exact same journey. I do not need to close my eyes and pray that my children and I will make it to the other side without drowning. After a long summer of protracted negotiations about how to respond to the crisis in the Mediterranean region, this is what European asylum policy still looks like in practice. RISING TIDE Although (most) EU member states have reluctantly agreed to redistribute 160,000 of those who have already arrived, there is still no legal route for refugees to enter Europe. And with no hope of a better life at home, thousands of people continue to make the illegal, expensive and potentially dangerous journey across the sea. They know the risks, but the water seems like a better option than the alternatives. Although Turkey offers temporary protection to Syrian refugees, it is not a signatory to the 1967 Protocol which extends the protection available under the 1951 Refugee Convention to those coming from outside Europe. That means no guaranteed access to employment, education or even basic health care. Conditions for Syrian refugees in Turkey are well documented and known to be deteriorating. There is no prospect that things will improve, no hope for a better future. Those who are not from Syria get nothing. And so they come to Europe. Since the beginning of 2015, more than a quarter of a million people have arrived on Lesvos by sea, and still more are coming. More than 70,000 people arrived in September alone and, according to the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), the numbers are set to be even higher for October. A dinghy on the Greek island of Lesvos with the shoreline of Turkey in the distance. Heaven Crawley, Author provided Some are coming directly from Damascus, Aleppo and Deraa; others come from the refugee camps in Jordan and Lebanon, where conditions have become so bad that many are considering returning to their war-ravaged homeland. But most have come from Turkey, where they have tried but failed to make a living for months or even years. As the winter draws ever closer and news of the fences being erected across Europe filters back to those stuck in Turkey and elsewhere, there is a renewed sense of urgency, a frantic desire to find a find a better life while it’s still possible. But time is running out. PUSHED BACK In just a few weeks' time the waters will become colder and rougher – and the risk of crossing them even greater. At the same time, Turkey has been offered up to one billion euros by the European Commission to improve policies for “integrated border management” and to tackle trafficking activities. Research my colleagues and I are conducting on the Mediterranean migration crisis has found evidence that the Turkish authorities are trying to prevent people from accessing the coastline or even pushing them back to the short once they are on the water, with potentially deadly consequences. Reports about push backs by both Turkish and Greek coastguards have been circulating since mid-2014 but seem certain to increase. Meanwhile, vigilante groups, including Golden Dawn, are heading into the sea at night to incapacitate the boats and prevent people reaching safety on Greek territory. Everyone is bracing themselves for a significant increase in the death rates. And the pressure is on the EU to do “something” – as it has been since the Lampedusa tragedy that claimed 274 lives in Italian waters back in October 2013. Since that time more than 6,000 people have died trying to cross to Europe. The makeshift grave of one of those who recently died on the crossing to Lesvos Heaven Crawley, Author provided The baby I saw being buried was not the first to die – and he certainly won’t be the last. Two days after his funeral, I spent the day at the beaches in the north of the island where the refugee boats mainly arrive. Shortly after I arrived I was told that three people - at a woman, a child and an infant - had drowned the previous evening when the boat they were travelling in flipped over in the water. Then, just a few hours later, there was a collision between a Hellenic Coast Guard vessel and a wooden boat carrying Syrian and Afghan refugees. The boat sank. At least eight people died. The cemetery in Mytelini is running out of space to bury the dead. The reality is that people will continue to come to Europe as long as there is conflict and human rights abuse in their countries of origin – and as long as they are denied the chance to build new lives in the countries they can reach over land. If Europe’s leaders really want to stop the death toll rising, they need to divert resources away from border controls and focus instead on the root causes of this crisis. Until they do, the hope for a fully realised common European asylum policy which delivers international protection for those fleeing conflict and human rights abuse will remain a faint one – and people will continue to die. _Heaven Crawley currently receives funding from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) for comparative research into the Mediterranean migration crisis_
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GREECE group stages rosary initiative
GREECE -- Noontime traffic on Oct. 10 was heavy at Latta and Long Pond roads, one of the busiest parts of town. In sharp contrast to the hundreds of ...
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Brazil's Pres Dilma To Journalists: For The 'Last Time', FinMin Joaquim Levy Not Resigning
Fitch says that an impeachment would create even more unknowns in the Brazilian economy, which has become Latin America's own Greek tragedy.
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Decision on GREEK aid payment seen next week, EU officials say
Greece may get approval next week for the next payment under its new, 86 billion-euro ($97.5 billion) bailout program, though the government still has ...
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GREEK footballer Leonardo Kutris comically dropped off stretcher TWICE
Ergotelis midfielder Leonardo Kutris was expecting to just be carted off the pitch to recover from a slight knock...but instead became an internet viral ...
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Three Former GREEK Government Officials Get 25 to Life for Money Laundering
Yiannis Sbokos, previously responsible for GREEK military procurement, was sentenced to life in prison by a GREEK court for a breach of faith while ...
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Puerto Rico's Debt Crisis: Greece Isn't Alone in Struggling Against Austerity
… the "Greece of the Caribbean," while Greece has also at … visited Greece and having followed the developments there, would you characterize Greece … I've heard from Greeks in discussing their fears about …
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UPDATE 2-Greek bond yields hit year's low after approval ...
LONDON, Oct 19 (Reuters) - Greek two-year government bond yields fell to their lowest level this year on Monday as investors welcomed Athens' approval of a ...
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Nazi archives shed light on WWII atrocities in GREECE
GREECE'S defence ministry on Monday unveiled its first findings from research into formerly classified Wehrmacht papers found in archives in the United ...
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The results of the early parliamentary elections in GREECE
Who will carry out the Greek reforms which the government of former Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, who resigned after part of his party stood against ...
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Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew: “The reopening of the theological school is a subject that ‘burns’ us”
Athens, October 19, 2015/Independent Balkan News Agency “It is unthinkable to have been open during the Ottoman Empire era and be closed now”. By Manolis Kostidis His deep concern about the non-reopening of the Theological School of Halki expressed the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew during his visit to the President of the Republic of Greece Prokopis […]
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Refugee mother still clutching the body of her baby is plucked from the Mediterranean
The woman and ten other Syrian refugees and Iraqi migrants were rescued by an Israeli yacht crew in the early hours of Sunday after their boat floundered near the Greek island of Kastellorizo overnight.
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Greece's private sector union calls strike on Nov. 12 ...
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece's private sector umbrella union GSEE called on Monday a 24-hour strike for Nov. 12 to protest reforms demanded by the country's ...
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Greek Farmers Ready to Rally Protesting Tax and Security Fund Reforms
Greek farmers and stockbreeders will demonstrate massively against the new taxes imposed on them, threatening that they may even block national highways before Christmas. The PanHellenic Coordinating Committee of Farmers’ Blocs convened in Larissa on Sunday and decided to start protest rallies and demonstrations that will culminate in blocking with their tractors national highways and main
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Creditors Return to Greece to be Briefed on Progress of Reforms
Mission chiefs of the quartet of Greece’s international lenders will visit Athens briefly on Tuesday to be briefed about the progress of reforms, following the parliamentary approval of the legislation last week. Delia Velculescu from the International Monetary Fund, Rasmus Rueffer from the European Central Bank, Nicola Giammarioli from the European Stability Mechanism and Declan Costello from the
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Has the Sept. 20 GREEK national election brought any significant change?
On Sept. 20, Greece held its national election for the second time this year. The result was a great victory for the Syriza Party and its leader Alexis ...
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Red Cross Praises GREEK Authorities' Cooperation Amid Refugee Crisis
The Hellenic Red Cross has seen excellent cooperation by GREEK officials, including law enforcement and local municipalities amid the refugee crisis.
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Delayed land register is never-ending epic in Greece
When Greece applied for its first international bailout in 2010, only two countries in Europe lacked a computerized register of land ownership and usage. Albania was the other
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1-Week Top Financial Stocks: National Bank of GREECE (ADR) (NYSE:NBG), Paypal Holdings Inc ...
National Bank of GREECE (ADR) (NYSE:NBG) latest closing price of $0.803 is at a premium to its 200-day moving average price of $1.02. Its 52-week ...
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GREECE'S Open University at Risk Due to Lack of Funds
pan The Greek Open University is in danger of having its study programs cancelled and being shut down due to lack of funds. A large number of ...
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Watch List Stocks: General Motors Company (NYSE:GM), National Bank of GREECE (ADR) (NYSE ...
National Bank of GREECE (ADR) (NYSE:NBG) closed at $0.803 after gaining 14.71% for the day. During the last trading session the minimum price at ...
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Migrants Change Routes, Stay in GREECE Longer During Winter
Migrants who pass through GREECE on their way to wealthier European countries change their routes and stay in GREECE for longer periods when ...
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Greek two year bonds fall to lowest level this year
Greek two-year government bond yields fell to their lowest level this year on Monday as investors welcomed Athens’ approval of a series of reforms needed to unlock ...
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Mid Cap Stocks Buzz: National Bank of GREECE (NBG), Genworth Financial (GNW), Kinross Gold ...
National Bank of GREECE (NYSE:NBG) advanced +14.71% and closed at $0.803 in the last trading session with the total traded volume of 15.63 million ...
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People Smugglers Offer 'Seasonal Discount' On Routes To GREECE As Seas Turn Choppy
At Basmane station, a number of smugglers are already offering transport to GREECE at the lower price to the migrants gathering there. Among those ...
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