GREECE will sell 2.25 billion euros of three- and six-month treasury bills on Wednesday to refinance maturing issues, the Public Debt Management ...
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How the world sees Greece
Friday, December 4, 2015
National Bank of GREECE gets 2.71 billion euro state aid by the European Commission
The commission concluded that measures the National Bank of GREECE has already implemented will allow it to secure a grant of credit to the Greek ...
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Spike Lee's Chiraq adapts ancient GREEK play to address gang violence
The plot of Spike Lee's film Chi-Raq — Chicago women withholding sex from men until the gang and gun violence stops — comes from a GREEK play ...
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Photos of Clashes Between Refugees and Cops at the GREEK Border
Photos of Clashes Between Refugees and Cops at the GREEK Border ... at the refugee camp outside Idomeni on the GREEK/Macedonian border after a ...
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Schengen survives, for now
Greece's decision to ask for help with refugees eases EU tensions over free-travel area.
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National Bank of GREECE (NBG): What Greeks Really Need?
GREECE is still not out of the danger zone. After six years of austerity and economic downturn, recession specifically, the country is still in a mess.
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Kerry Expresses Supports for Greece as USA Will Give UN 24 Million Euros for Refugee Crisis
United States Secretary of State John Kerry concluded his visit to Greece with a meeting with Greek Foreign Affairs minister Nikos Kotzias on Friday afternoon. “Η Αμερική στηρίζει την Ελλάδα” Kerry said in Greek, meaning that America supports Greece, kicking off his remarks during a joint press conference with Kotzias after their meeting. Kerry’s comments were largely positive,
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EU Sends Help as Migrant Chaos on GREEK-Macedonian Border Escalates
"The scale is immense and the Commission is working very closely with the GREEK authorities to assist them in this challenge," an EC statement says.
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Crude bomb goes off at GREEK politician's home
A rudimentary explosive device went off outside the home of former minister Costas Laliotis in Lycabettus, central Athens, early on Friday.
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Subsidies for GREEK political parties approved
Greece's Interior Minister Panayiotis Kouroublis on Friday approved the payment of the second half of the annual state subsidy for political parties.
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Child refugees draw the houses they hope to have in camp in Greece
… her fellow volunteers were also Greek. “Some of them here are … vast majority have entered through Greece, including 425,000 landing in … ’s child protection advisor for Greece, said many children arriving have …
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Greek Minister Dissatisfied with European Stance During ...
Amid reports of Greece being at risk of losing its Schengen Area membership, Greek Deputy Foreign Minister Nikos Xydakis has revealed his dissatisfaction with
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GREECE Blinks on Schengen Suspension Threats; Requests Official EU Help and Border Assistance
A Financial Times article on Wednesday referred to a Friday ultimatum to GREECE to GREECE, citing various high-level European sources that were ...
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GREECE Bows to EU Pressure and Accepts Border Guard Aid
Threatened with being thrown out of the Schengen borderless Europe zone, GREECE has accepted an offer from the European Union to bolster its ...
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With Washington's Blessing: GREECE Wants To Be Hub For East Med, Caspian Gas
On December 8, Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi will visit GREECE where he will attend a summit meeting with Greek Prime Minister Alexis ...
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Joint Press Availability With Greek Foreign Minister Nikos ...
FOREIGN MINISTER KOTZIAS: (Via interpreter) Good morning. I would like to welcome dear U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, with whom we’ve been working very closely ...
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Greek central bank chief warns on reforms
Warning comes as Syriza-led coalition government tries to push through unpopular pension cuts
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AP Interview: Greek minister says EU has provided far less ...
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The European Union has provided far less than is needed to help Greece deal with the massive influx of refugees and other migrants this year ...
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Joint statements of Foreign Minister Kotzias and U.S. ...
N. KOTZIAS: Good day. I welcome my friend Secretary of State John Kerry, with whom we work closely in the context and the spirit of the traditional bonds of friendship that join the two countries, and I also welcome him and hope we will see him again in the future, because he is a person who loves the sea and sailing, and the Greek islands. We will await him in the future.Mr. Kerry is a great Secretary of State, distinguished for his rationality, his clear thinking and his realism.Hepointsupthecontradictionsandcontrasts. John Kerry is the Secretary of State of a country where...
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Frenzy: 25K people have applied for 690 vacancies at Greece’s public hospitals
Greeks in frenzy for a job at a public hospital. A total of 690 vacancies have been opened for nurses, paramedical professions and administrative staff and thus for graduates of secondary education or vocational schools IEK. And Greeks are storming the electronic applications system to grab one of the very […]
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Really Cool GREEK-Inspired Gifts Under $100
GREEK up your holiday gift giving with some of our hand-picked GREEK-inspired gift ideas for all kinds of people– and animals. We've pulled these ...
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Former Vice President of the Hellenic Parliament Hit with Money Laundering and Tax Evasion Charge
The Public Prosecutor’s Office of District Court Judges charged Former President of the Hellenic Parliament and former SYRIZA MP Alexis Mitropoulos with felony charges for money laundering and tax evasion, Greek media report. Mitropoulos, who served as the parliament’s vice president from February to October 2015 and as a SYRIZA MP from 2012 until August 2015, has been charged
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Greek Deputy Foreign Minister Looks for Korean Investments in Greece
Deputy Foreign Minister Dimitris Mardas called on Korean entrepreneurs to invest in Greece, on Friday. Mardas was speaking at the 2015 Greek-Korean business forum held at the Evgenidio Institute in Athens. Addressing Korean businessmen, Mardas underlined that Greece has made structural reforms, a fact that makes it very attractive to foreign investments. The shipping sector,
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IMF to Decide on Participation in Greek Bailout After January
The International Monetary Fund is set to make a decision about its long-term role in the ongoing Greek bailout program further into 2016, the Athens Macedonian News Agency reports. IMF spokesperson Andreas Adriano told ANA-MPA that the fund will begin deliberating over potentially taking part in this third Greek bailout in January, but the ultimate
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Greek Contestant Asked to Leave Miss World 2015 Pageant
Theodora Nte Morais Moschouri, the Greek contestant in the 65th annual Miss World pageant will not be participating in the finale after she was asked to leave the competition. The final stage of the pageant is scheduled to take place in Sanya, China on December 19th, at the Beauty Crown Grand Theatre. Based on information reported
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Classic Bicycle Exhibition in Thessaloniki
The exhibition “Meet the classic bicycle” is being hosted at the WE venue in Thessaloniki, organized by the veterans of the Bicycle Unions of Northern Greece. A handmade bicycle made by the British company “Raleigh” which was constructed during WWI and has a light with acetylene is among the top attractions of the exhibition along
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Greece Resorts to EU Crisis Management Tools to Cope with Migrant Influx
Greece has activated the EU Civil Protection Mechanism to benefit from material support to help the country cope with the influx of refugees and asylum seekers at its borders, the European Commission said on Friday. Greece has requested tents, generators, beds, sanitary equipment and emergency first aid kits. “This voluntary delivery of aid is coordinated by the European Commission's Emergency Response Coordination centre which is working closely with the Greek authorities and the other participating states in the Mechanism for a swift response to the request,” the EU executive body said in a news release. Greece has also agreed an operational plan with Frontex, under which the EU border agency will deploy additional officers on the country’s border with Macedonia to assist with the registration of migrants. The deployment will begin next week. Another action taken by Greece on Friday is the submission to Frontex of a formal request to deploy a Rapid Border Intervention Team (RABIT) to provide immediate border guard support at the country’s external border in the Aegean islands. Over 50,000 migrants and refugees have arrived in Greece since 1 November. The EU Civil Protection Mechanism can be activated by a Member State and countries outside the EU if they feel overwhelmed by a crisis. The mechanism was activated by Hungary and Serbia in September. Slovenia and Croatia activated the mechanism in October. Member States can request the deployment of RABIT to provide immediate border guard support in cases of urgent or exceptional migratory pressure. This mechanism has only been activated once: in 2010, an operation at the Greek-Turkish border stabilised the situation and brought down the number of arrivals.
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Greek central bank governor warns of danger to government ...
The governor of Greece’s central bank has warned that political infighting over a critical final round of economic reforms is threatening to derail a long-awaited ...
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The Latest: 2,000 refugees cross Greek-Macedonian border
… in Greece if they want. But nearly all those entering Greece from … to adequately respond to Greece's needs. Greece is the main … be reintroduced for Greek citizens traveling in Europe. Greece also wants the …
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Clashes erupt amongst asylum seekers in Greece
… scenes at the border of Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic … Friday (December 4). On the Greek side, riot police struggled to …
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Petrol bombs as thousands rally against austerity in GREEK capital
The proposed social security and pension reforms are in line with EU-mandated austerity measures agreed to by the GREEK government earlier this ...
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Bank accounts and… horses in assets register
Athens, December 4, 2015/Independent Balkan News Agency By Olga Mavrou Greek taxpayers (and companies based in Greece) must declare by September, next year, in the asset register all their assets – real estate, cars, motorcycles over 50 cc, aircrafts, horses, valuable objects that are insured, i..e. jewels or works of art, bank accounts, deposit boxes (not their content […]
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Criminal charges for ex MP
Athens, December 4, 2015/Independent Balkan News Agency By Olga Mavrou Ex vice president of the Greek parliament and ex MP of SYRIZA Alexis Mitropoulos, lawyer and professor of Labour Law in Athens University, faces criminal charges for tax evasion and money laundering. The investigation for these crimes was the main reason Mitropoulos was not accepted as a […]
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Turkey detains 3,000 refugees after EU deal
Detainees, mainly from Syria and Iraq, were preparing to travel to Greek island of Lesbos from north-western town of Ayvacik Turkish officials have rounded up nearly 3,000 people in the past four days who were planning to cross the Aegean Sea to Greece, local media reported. The detentions were part of an operation launched on Monday, a day after Turkey and the European Union reached a deal to stem the flow of refugees into Europe. Continue reading...
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The Latest: Germany arrests 5 in arson attacks on shelters
CORRECTS MONTH IN DATE Migrants assist an old man in a wheelchair after entering Macedonia from GREECE, near the southern Macedonian town ...
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Greek government struggles with pension reform
The Greek government is struggling to put together the package of pension reforms required by the bailout agreement with its European creditors.
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EU might take charge of Europe's borders
By Gabriela Baczynska and Alastair Macdonald BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union is considering a measure that would give a new EU border force powers to intervene and guard a member state's external frontier to protect the Schengen open-borders zone, EU officials and diplomats said on Friday. Such a move would be controversial. It might be blocked by states wary of surrendering sovereign control of their territory. But the discussion reflects fears that Greece's failure to manage a flood of migrants from Turkey has brought Schengen's open borders to the brink of collapse. ...
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Bank of Greece “sees” political consensus on creditors’ agreement when opposition down votes Austerity bills
The Bank of Greece released its Monetary Policy interim report 2015. Although the detailed analysis is 159 pages long, the essence can be summarized in one sentence: Greece must apply the Agreement with the creditors in full detail. Stressing that “recapitalisation of the four significant Greek banks has been successfully […]
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'It's really awful'
There are scenes of desperation in the GREEK border town of Idomeni after hundreds of migrants were prevented from entering Macedonia on the way ...
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Kerry: Syrian opposition needs to be assured Assad will eventually leave power
Speaking in Greece, the secretary of state said they are unlikely to join peace talks without that guarantee.
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What Happens to Your Body When You Eat Yogurt
From fighting off the common cold to helping people lose weight, the benefits of yogurt makes it one of your body's best friends. Even plain Greek yogurt contains ...
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U.S. State Secretary Kerry: We Want to Help Greece Emerge from Crisis
Secretary of State John Kerry told Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras that the United States wants to help Greece come out of the economic crisis. “I appreciate the way in which you have been approaching the economic reform effort and the challenges of the debt,” Kerry told Tsipras at the beginning of their meeting at
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5,000 Police Officers Preparing for Riots on December 6
The Hellenic Police are on high alert in view of Decemeber 6, the anniversary of the death of 16-year-old student Alexis Grigoropoulos. In 2008 Grigoropoulos was killed by a police officer. His death sparked protests and riots in Athens and across Greece that went on for weeks. The date is still filled with tension and
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In Greece, Shift From Cash to Plastic Could Undercut ...
ATHENS — In the central market here recently, hanging above the trays of cod and the slabs of pink meat, was evidence that Greece’s near bankruptcy ...
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The War Against ISIS Lacks Coherence -- At Our Peril
Even after the horror of the slaughtering spree in Paris recently, the European Union as a whole, in self-defense and well within the bounds of international law, did not, as it should have, automatically invoke Article 5 of the NATO Treaty which obligates the alliance to defend its members under attack. Missing a critical opportunity. Not only to protect more effectively its citizens in the short term; but also to help create and fully coordinate, with maximum efficiency and unparalleled access to state-of-the-art technology and intelligence, a grander military and diplomatic alliance. Precisely as recently envisaged in a unanimous UN Security Council resolution urging all countries actively to join the fight. And thus becoming fully capable to restore human decency in the world by engaging and defeating the enemy -- whether on the ground by air or both. No more than 30,000 elite troops forthcoming from all over the world -- as has been professionally estimated privately -- could expeditiously complete this task in a matter of months under NATO's sophisticated command. In the process adequately fortifying as well major points of entry into Europe, as in the much criticized case of Greece. Where with no technical or financial assistance from the EU, the Greeks nevertheless excel, harboring and reasonably policing the endless streams of refugees bursting helpless onto their shores -- obviously risking terrorist infiltration. Sadly, however, we have seen instead the city of Brussels, executive seat of the EU, practically paralyzed for significant periods of time last month. But also disturbingly emerging as a busy incubator of ISIS terrorists. The British are still deliberating, and the Americans, with 65 nations behind them, unfortunately remain at strategic odds with Russia's military campaign currently gathering pace in Syria. And the Germans? They have been quietly fading out from the general picture, apart from contributing the light frigate, Hamburg, to NATO's (SNMG-2) planned patrols in the eastern Mediterranean in the event of the alliance's -- belated -- involvement in Syria. Germany's preoccupation apparently being primarily continuing to impose a "blind austerity" policy in Europe. Still causing, six years on, economic growth in our entire continent to hover asymptotically above zero. In the meantime, as a result of the limited effectiveness of our "intensified war" against the Islamic State (the Security Council's historic call for action with a massive international mobilization having not as yet produced the desired response) this lethal organization, dedicated to terror abroad, has already achieved one of its principal goals. Hundreds of millions of people in Europe and elsewhere in the world, despite brave appearances, now fear for their lives. Especially when going about their daily business. And more so when they have to travel by air. This situation certainly affects adversely the world's economic recovery -- and hardly justifies the West's "still evolving" strategic and diplomatic thinking. The paramount task of pulling together, and indeed inspiring, too, our war effort has been left, alas, for the embattled President of France to deal with -- alone. Going around the world desperately trying to convince, one after the other, the world's leaders to unite their forces. And in the end, presumably acting as a "wide and single" international coalition, to eliminate ISIS. A tortuous process deepening in complexity by the day of late as Turkey continues to withhold its due apology to Russia after provocatively and so unmercifully shooting down last week one of its war planes on a standard mission against ISIS in Syria. Subsequently killing, too, one of the survivors. How realistic is it, therefore, in today's circumstances, to rely on a second-best strategy as the best way to defend our core western values under serious threat for the foreseeable future? And worse, we should not also be expected to embrace the riskier option of depending, for our present safety and future prosperity, on the unaccountable, unelected and perhaps even corrupt Brussels directorate's poor record to date. _________________ _Nicos E. Devletoglou, Emeritus Professor of Economics, University of Athens, is author of the books Academia in Anarchy: An Economic Diagnosis (Basic Books) written jointly with Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics James Buchanan; and Consumer Behaviour: An Experiment in Analytical Economics (Harper and Row)._ -- 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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The Latest: Belgian police detain 6, break up smuggling ring
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The latest developments as tens of thousands of people make their way to Europe and across the continent, seeking safety and a better life. All times local.
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NGO’s Save Refugees Off Greece
Doctors Without Borders charity and Greenpeace have teamed up in an operation to save refugees coming to Greek islands. The post NGO’s Save Refugees Off Greece appeared first on The National Herald.
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More Threats Against Greece
The Financial Times story about Greece being threatened with being ousted from the EU's open borders program worsens a tough situation. The post More Threats Against Greece appeared first on The National Herald.
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Greek Minister: EU Provided Inadequate Help for Refugees ...
Stranded migrants, await entry into Macedonia on the Greek side of the border photographed through a fence from Macedonian side of the border, near the ...
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Kerry confident Greece will implement reforms in coming ...
ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- The U.S. Secretary of State says he expects Greece's government will keep on track with reforms needed to revive its crisis-battered economy ...
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