GREECE is expected to come under significant pressure over its response to the refugee crisis at the European Union leaders' summit on Thursday and ...
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How the world sees Greece
Tuesday, December 15, 2015
Draft conclusions of upcoming EU summit suggest GREECE to be pressured over migration
Cyprus and GREECE sign sports protocol
A protocol of sports cooperation between the Cyprus Sports Organisation (KOA) and the Greek General Secretariat for Sports was signed during a ...
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Greek MPs approve new round of measures to unlock bailout ...
Greek MPs (members of the parliament) on Tuesday approved the latest round of prior actions requested by the country's international creditors in order to unlock the ...
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As bad debts pile up, GREEK parliament approves new austerity bill changing loan rules
(AP) — GREEK lawmakers on Tuesday approved legislation granting the right to sell bad business loans from local banks to overseas funds as part of a ...
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Migrants and Refugees to be Housed in Hockey Stadium for Three Months
Greek Alternate Migration Policy Minister Yiannis Mouzalas announced on Tuesday that migrants and refugees will be housed at the hockey stadium in the area of Ellinko, in the southern suburbs of Attica, for the next three months. Migrants and refugees will be transferred to the hockey stadium from the Taekwondo stadium in the Palaio Faliro area. There are migrants
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Libya's cultural heritage 'being destroyed and plundered by Isis'
Museums and UN say ancient artefacts and artwork are in danger of obliteration or being looted and sold illegally Greek and Roman antiquities and prehistoric artwork are under threat from Islamic State extremists in Libya, leading world museums and the UN have warned. The International Council of Museums released a list of cultural treasures in peril and appealed to Interpol, customs officers and art traders to watch out for looted Libyan goods. Continue reading...
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Podemos leader Pablo Iglesias on why he’s like Jeremy Corbyn: ‘He brings ideas that can solve problems’
This week’s Spanish elections will be a major test, but the leftist party has already proved it can capture the popular imagination without snatching the centre ground. Does Iglesias’s brand of radicalism provide a blueprint for the Labour leader? Approaching the offices of Podemos, Spain’s 20-month-old party of the revitalised left, has a touch of the pilgrimage to it. It’s just an ordinary office block in central Madrid, young people beavering about; it could be anyone’s political HQ. But the party itself, the speed of its growth, the radical mould-breaking of its socialist leader, Pablo Iglesias, is significant for left-wing parties everywhere. Like Syriza in Greece, Podemos has already, merely by existing, achieved what was previously thought of as impossible: the capture of popular imagination by some means other than snatching the centre ground. If Pablo Iglesias can win in Sunday’s elections, Jeremy Corbyn can, Bernie Sanders can. More than that, he will have taken the whole conception of “moderation” – as a static political quality that normal people yearn for – and smashed it. That’s why people hang on his every word. In person, Iglesias is confident and trenchant, but always calm. He looks younger than his 37 years, especially on the roof in the sharp November sun, having his photo taken, yet he has the mature authority of the university lecturer. He speaks as though it comes as no surprise to have people listening intently to him; there’s something faintly Hollywood about the way he describes himself and his trajectory. Talking about the party – which hit a peak of popularity in December of 2014, but tailed off significantly this year – he reaches for a boxing simile. “I always give the example of Muhammad Ali. At the beginning, he boxed, moving quickly and delivering a lot of blows. But in the famous battle in Kinshasa with George Foreman, he learned how to receive blows, learned to withstand many attacks, resisting them to finally win.” Continue reading...
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IMF Renews Calls for Debt Relief Amid Concerns Over Third Greek Bailout
… reforms to improve competitiveness in Greece. Delia Velculescu:we have been … Argiri (@lenaargiri) December 14, 2015 Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos has … , headed by Germany, to offer Greece debt relief has triggered widespread …
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Nabeel's Greek peasant salad is an authentic treat
… on a recent trip to Greece "where everywhere we went … the Greek peasant salad is the way they served it in Greece … his father Antonios. "In Greece this is a staple salad … 4 pinches Greek oregano 8 ounces Kalamata olives 8 ounces Greek feta …
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UPDATE 1-Greek parliament approves reforms to unlock ...
The Greek parliament approved abill on Tuesday containing reforms demanded by the country'sinternational lenders in exchange for 1 billion euros ($1 ...
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Greece mounts late push to assure EU before migration summit
By Renee Maltezou ATHENS (Reuters) - In a last-minute drive to assure European Union partners that it is getting to grips with a mass influx of refugees, Greece released aerial photographs on Tuesday of new registration centres for migrants on its northern Aegean islands. The move is part of Athens' efforts, ahead of an EU summit starting on Thursday, to rebuff criticism by Germany and other EU governments that it has done too little to manage the flow of hundreds of thousands of people arriving on its shores. The biggest migration crisis in Europe since World War Two has provoked strains and recriminations between EU governments.
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GREEK church sends boxes to Syrian refugees
Huge community response by St. George GREEK Orthodox Church in Piscataway fills 31 boxes with needed items to Syrian refugees in Greece.
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GREEK parliament approved reforms needed to unlock €1 billion bailout funds
FXStreet (Córdoba) - GREEK Parliament passed an omnibus bill to unlock €1 billion in bailout funds. MPs voted 153 in favor, 138 against.
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GREEK Parliament Ratifies Last Set of Bailout Prior Actions
The GREEK government's legislators were the only ones to support the measures and reforms during Tuesday evening parliament's vote. As such, 153 ...
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10 Really Cool Photos of Early GREEK Immigrants in the United States
Greeks celebrating in downtown Detroit dancing in the streets during that city's “GREEK Town Freedom Festival.” July 7, 1966 ...
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EU executive proposes voluntary resettlement for Syrian refugees in Turkey
The EU executive proposed a new scheme on Tuesday to resettle Syrian refugees from Turkey to Europe, responding to calls led by Germany arguing that it would help Turkey and those now risking dangerous sea crossings to Greece. There has been speculation in recent weeks that EU countries ready to take part in the scheme could offer hundreds of thousands of places. The proposal comes after the EU agreed to revive Ankara's long-stalled membership bid and offer financial assistance in exchange for Turkish help to curb the flow of migrants to Europe.
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Greek govt’s social program – counterweight to “Red Loans” bill
Greek government announced a package of social measures as counterweight to the “red loans” bill that will be voted tonight in the Greek Parliament. The program includes among others: health care to uninsured citizens and migrants with legal papers, broadening the criteria for the ‘social invoice’ of Public Power Company, […]
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DENIZEN 360: The “Grave Watch” Volunteers Welcome Refugees in Lesbos, GREECE
RYOT's David Darg embedded with a team of “grave watch” volunteers on the Greek island of Lesbos looking for refugee boats arriving in the ...
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Tired of Leaky Borders, E.U. Plans to Seize Control
The proposal seeks to stem the flow of migrants through Greece and Italy, while maintaining free movement within Europe. Opponents call it a power grab.
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Greek parliament passes reforms in exchange for bailout funds
Greece's parliament approved a bill on Tuesday with reforms demanded by the country's international lenders in exchange for 1 billion euros ($1.10 billion) of bailout funds which Greece needs to pay off state arrears. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras' leftist-led government agreed to enact a set of reforms, including changes in the public sector wage grid and opening up the market for banks to dispose of corporate non-performing loans, to qualify for the new funds. The coalition of Tsipras' leftist Syriza party and the right-wing nationalist Independent Greeks has a majority of just three lawmakers in the 300-seat parliament.
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GREEK chestnut seller convicted over lack of license
A Thessaloniki court on Tuesday handed down a six-month suspended prison sentence to a chestnut seller who was arrested last Friday in central ...
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SMG will also handle F&B at the GREEK Theatre
A San Diego-based concessionaire purchased by SMG in June will handle food and beverage at the GREEK Theatre next season and possibly for the ...
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The Latest: EU says only 64 refugees have left Greece : News
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The latest news on the mass movement of asylum-seekers and migrants to Europe. All times local: 5:40 p.m. Only 64 of the tens of thousands of ...
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Food to Address Vitamin D Deficiency from the TEI in Thessaly
An international research team led by Greek professor of biochemistry; Dimitris Moulas received high honors in a leading international conference. Moulas, professor at the Department of Biochemistry of the Technological Institute in Thessaly, and his team participated in the 6th International Conference on Food Factors held in Seoul, South Korea from November 22 to 25.
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UNESCO, Interpol, world museums warn of extremist threats to Libya's cultural treasures
Greek and Roman antiquities and prehistoric artwork are under threat from Islamic State extremists in lawless Libya, leading world museums and the U.N.
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UNESCO, museums warn of extremist threat to Libya artifacts
PARIS (AP) — Leading world museums and the U.N. cultural agency are releasing a list of Greek and Roman antiquities and prehistoric artwork under threat from Islamic State extremists in lawless Libya.
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Bulgarian-GREEK gas interconnector is very important for the two countries to become gas hubs in ...
“This is the policy that must be followed. I think we are on the right track,” the GREEK President said and reminded the signing of the investment decision ...
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Janna Basler, MU Assistant Director of GREEK Life, back on the job after fallout from controversial ...
COLUMBIA — Janna Basler has returned to her job as Assistant Director of GREEK Life at MU after more than a month of administrative leave, the MU ...
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Zorba the GREEK, the book by Nikos Kazantzakis, is a gleaming, brimming example of words as life-altering wisdom. Zorba the GREEK is more than just ...
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The Latest: EU Says Only 64 Refugees Have Left Greece
… ;hotspot areas" on the Greek islands meant to register and … have offered relocation places to Greece, almost three months after the … 160,000 refugees arriving in Greece and Italy. Under that relocation …
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Zorba the Greek by By Nikos Kazantzakis
… by Mohammed Shafeeqe Zorba the Greek, the book by Nikos Kazantzakis … the human race. Zorba the Greek follows a stuffy intellectual narrator … outside the church in Heraklion, Crete, his home island. How does …
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“But If You Look at the Original Greek…”: A Plea for Caution
… toward the original Greek text here—turning to Biblical Greek lexicons, and … in Biblical Greek and other early Jewish and Christian Greek texts, too … שְׁאוֹל is transliterated as “Sheol,” and Greek γέεννα is “Gehenna.” [4] Consisting of …
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Juncker “trolls” Greeks: We take measures after checking their impact on the vulnerable groups of the society
The President of the European Commission massively “trolled” Greeks today. Speaking at the European Parliament, Jean-Claude Juncker claimed that before European creditors impose austerity measures, they first check with the impact of the measures to the vulnerable groups of the society. “Today, if a country needs to pursue an adjustment […]
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Greek prosecutors crack down on suspected tax evaders
Greek authorities have confirmed they're investigating hundreds of cases of alleged tax fraud. The crackdown came after regional officials in Germany had provided Athens with data sets on dubious bank accounts.
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As bad debts pile up, Greece to change loan rules in new ...
ATHENS, Greece – Lawmakers in Greece are set to sanction the right to sell bad business loans from local banks to overseas funds as part of a new ...
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Secretary General for Int’l Economic Relations G. ...
The Foreign Ministry’s Secretary General for International Economic Relations, Giorgos Tsipras, met in Minsk, on 14 December, with the Deputy Foreign Minister of the Republic of Belarus, Alena Kupchyna.During the meeting, which took place in an excellent atmosphere, they discussed issues concerning bilateral cooperation and the development of economic and political relations between the two states.There was also an exchange of views on optimum preparation for the first Greece-Belarus Joint Interministerial Committee meeting, which is scheduled to be held within 2016, as well as the potential for further expansion of bilateral business contacts and actions.
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E.U. Pushes to Take Over Border Security at Migrant Pressure Points
The proposal to take control of popular entry points in places like Greece and Italy already faces opposition from countries that suspect a power grab by Brussels.
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GREEK National Tourism Organization to participate in 22 international fairs
GREEK National Tourism Organization (EOT) will participate in 22 international tourism fairs during the first half of 2016. The decision was taken by ...
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GREEK Primary Surplus Rises; Revenue and Spending Targets Fall Short
draft budget The GREEK state budget showed a primary surplus of 4.348 billion euros in the January – November period compared to 3.566 billion ...
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Food Detective: Nabeel's Greek peasant salad is an ...
The Greek peasant salad "is even better when accompanied by crusty bread dipped in the juices of the salad,"
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Greece to change loan rules in new austerity bill
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Lawmakers in Greece are set to sanction the right to sell bad business loans from local banks to overseas funds as part of a new austerity bill demanded by bailout lenders from the rest of the eurozone.
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The Latest: Lithuania receives 4 Iraqi asylum-seekers
The 28-member EU has agreed on sharing 160,000 refugees arriving in GREECE and Italy. Under that relocation plan, Lithuania has accepted to take ...
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EU Funds: Green light to the new Italy-GREECE programme
(ANSA) - BRUSSELS, DECEMBER 15 - Green light of the European Commission to a new interreg programme between GREECE and Italy worth over ...
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EU Mulls Taking Refugees Directly From Turkey
European countries are considering a plan to take in Syrian refugees directly out of Turkey if Ankara makes good on its promises and reduces the number of people crossing illegally to Greece.
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Harsh weather halves migrant arrivals in Greece in November
Some 108,000 migrants arrived in Greece in November, roughly half the number recorded the previous month, as worsening weather conditions make crossing the Mediterranean from Turkey even more dangerous, the EU border agency Frontex said. Greece has been a key point of entry for irregular migrants as the European Union struggles with its worst migration crisis since World War Two. Frontex said some 715,000 people arrived in Greek islands in the first 11 months of the year, 16 times the number in the same period the year before, with Syrians dominating among the group, followed by Afghans and Iraqis.
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Visit of GREEK President to Bulgaria continues
Sofia. The official visit of GREEK President Prokopis Pavlopoulous to Bulgaria continues, the press service of the Bulgarian Head of State announced.
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GREEK justice probes 200 cases of alleged tax fraud
GREEK prosecutors are investigating some 200 cases of alleged tax fraud and money laundering after raiding an Athens office of Swiss bank UBS, ...
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The Great GREEK Bank Robbery
The latest GREEK bank bailout constitutes a cautionary tale about how politics – in this case, Europe's – is geared toward maximizing public losses for ...
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GREEK Authorities Raid UBS Branch in Athens
ubs GREEK financial authorities acted on a bank account list recently provided by German authorities by raiding the UBS Athens branch on Friday ...
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National Bank Of Greece: When Is It Time To Buy?
National Bank of Greece shares continue to plunge following a recapitalization, reverse split, and delisting. Book value measurements are difficult to ...
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