How the world sees Greece
Akko was one of the most Greek cities in Palestine in the first century CE, and this bathhouse—an item of Greek culture—was dedicated to the Greek goddess of love, beauty and pleasure. While bathing in Aphrodite’s bathhouse, Rabbi Gamliel is ...
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The Hott Spott in Mytilene, Lesbos in Greece does more than serve the people of the area. The café also gives stray dogs a warm place to sleep.
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GREEK President Prokopis Pavlopoulos has lashed out against comments by his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan describing Cyprus's ...
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Allies are supposed to spend at least 2% of GDP of defense, but only five nations -- the US, Greece, the UK, Estonia and Poland -- meet that target. According to NATO statistics, the US spent an estimated $650 billion on defense in 2015 -- more than double ...
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WILMINGTON — The Wilmington College women’s basketball team will travel to Greece, the cradle of Western civilization, in May to tour one of the world’s most historic countries and, of course, play basketball. The team’s May 14-22 trip to Greece ...
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[Members of Poland's special commando unit Lubliniec look on during the ]Thomson Reuters Top NATO and European military officials called in Berlin on Wednesday for more military spending to deal with threats to Europe and said that would help address concerns raised by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump. During his election campaign, Trump questioned whether the United States should protect allies seen as spending too little on their defense, raising fears he could withdraw funding for NATO at a time of heightened tensions with Russia. In Brussels on Wednesday, the European Union unveiled its biggest defense funding and research plan in more than a decade to reverse billions in cuts and demonstrate that it wants to pay for its own security. "The best answer to Mr. Trump is to prove that he's wrong, to prove that Europe is strong enough to defend itself," French Admiral Philippe Coindreau, vice chief of defense staff, said during a panel discussion at the Berlin Security Conference. "I think European nations should increase their defense budgets." Trump's comments have unsettled many in Europe. But NATO said he spoke with NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg earlier this month and they agreed on the "enduring importance" of the Western alliance. Trump has also spoken twice with British Prime Minister Theresa May and touched on the importance of NATO for European and U.S. security, Peter Watkins, director of general security policy for the British Ministry of Defense, told the conference. [obama nato 2009]Thomson Reuters Watkins said he was "pretty confident" that Trump would make a clear statement about his commitment to the NATO alliance. Czech General Petr Pavel, who heads the NATO military committee, said U.S. demands for higher military spending were nothing new. Pavel said it was more important to focus on tangible improvements in military capabilities than fixate on the 2 percent target, which he said was "too far and too big" for many NATO members to meet anytime soon. NATO's European members cut defense spending to historic lows after the break-up of the Soviet Union a quarter of a century ago, leaving the United States to make up around three-quarters of the alliance's military expenditure. Spending has increased in recent years after Russia's annexation of the Crimea region of Ukraine, the growing threat of Islamist attacks and large migrant flows. However, only Britain, Poland, Greece and Estonia meet a NATO goal of spending at least 2 percent of gross domestic product on defense. NOW WATCH: Watch the trailer for the new Martin Scorsese film that took over 20 years to make
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Until the end of December, a fundraising drive is underway that will raise money for art supplies to be sent with students from the Youth With a Mission ...
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ATHENS—Greece said Wednesday it had failed to reach an agreement with Azerbaijan’s state energy company, Socar, to sell a 66% stake in Greek natural-gas operator Desfa, creating another obstacle in the country’s efforts to reach the privatization ...
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Many mountainous and semi-mountainous areas in northern, central and southern GREECE are covered in snow on Wednesday, as temperatures drop ...
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A GREEK bodybuilder was so angry at losing a competition that he slapped a judge and pulled out his penis in protest. Giannis Magos had already ...
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Nine out of ten Greeks express their dissatisfaction with the Greek government, believing that the country is moving in the wrong direction, according to a Public Issue survey in November. Specifically, 92% of participants are dissatisfied with the government’s performance, but at the same time 84% have a negative opinion of the way the opposition […]
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ATHENS - Greece announced Wednesday it was pulling out of plans to sell control of Greek gas supplier Desfa to Azeri giant Socar, a deal pledged by Athens to its EU and IMF creditors. The decision comes after three years of negotiations following an ...
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ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A new poll has found that Greece's left-wing prime minister is among the country's least popular party leaders, outdoing only his populist junior government ally and the head of a Nazi-inspired party.
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… also invited: Romania, Bulgaria, Italy, Greece, Slovenia and Croatia. The meeting …
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NEW YORK – Michael Psaros is the emergent prominent leader of our Greek-American community. He is a co-Founder and co-Managing Partner of KPS Capital Partners, LP, and a member of... The post Michael Psaros, Successful Entrepreneur, Philanthropist, Presents his Vision for Greece appeared first on The National Herald.
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The European Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs Pierre Moscovici expressed his belief that it is possible to complete the second bailout and enter talks on debt relief, in an interview on Skai. Mr. Moscovici stated that the aim is not to ...
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In an interview to the Italian newspaper “La Stampa”, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker reiterated that “we cannot leave Greece and Italy all alone to address the immigration issue”, stressing that 400,000 people in total have been ...
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By Andrea Shalal BERLIN (Reuters) - Turkey will likely hand off responsibility for NATO's counter-migration mission in the Aegean Sea, averting tensions with Greece, when it takes command of a broader maritime mission in the region next year, a top British general said on Wednesday. "Because of Turkish-Greek sensitivities ... the likelihood is that the Turkish commander will command a bit of the group, but there'll be a subset that is commanded by one of his deputies to deal with the Aegean," General Gordon Messenger, vice chief of defence staff for Britain, told Reuters. Diplomats have said that Turkey is unhappy about NATO ships moving about in waters that it and Greece have long contested and remains worried that Greece could gain the upper hand in a dispute about a group of Aegean islands.
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The December registered student organization (RSO) spotlight is the Multicultural Greek Council (MGC). Advised under Fraternity and Sorority Life, MGC serves as a governing body that seeks to maintain high standards in the life of culturally based ...
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Brexit & Beyond: Europe in Flux is The Wall Street Journal’s round-up of news and analysis of how Brexit will affect global business, economies and finance. You can sign up here. MUST READS Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England. PHOTO: Reuters ...
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“Help the refugees who freeze at Petra of Olympos. There is no life in tents in sub-zero temperatures,” wrote a NGO volunteer at the Petra migrant camp in northern Greece. Thousands of refugees and migrants are put to the test in most of the ...
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The chances that Greece and creditors will agree on the second bailout program review before the December 5 Eurogroup are slim, a Kathimerini report says. The report cites a European official close to the negotiations who said that the review completion ...
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A man stole a cathedral's 19th Century Greek icon and left a cheap Christmas toy in its place, a court has heard. Vasilijy Apilats, 61, of Crewe, admitted he took the painting from Chester Cathedral but said he bought it for £135 from two men he believed ...
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BRUSSELS Euro zone finance ministers will discuss next week proposals by the bloc's bailout fund to cut Greece's debt, but with effects that would only kick in in several years' time, putting the International Monetary Fund's support for the measures in doubt.
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Ongoing excavation works at the Amphipolis tomb, which has had the world on edge as to the identity of the person buried there, may have uncovered a new structure. According to a survey conducted by the Thessaloniki University Department of Geophysics, a ...
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A Greek bodybuilder was a little too pumped up after losing a prestigious competition, so he slapped a judge, flipped over the judges’ tables and reportedly pulled out his penis. Giannis Magos freaked out at the 2016 IFBB Diamond Cup in Athens ...
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Greek coalition government has submitted a bill which includes reforms for the second bailout program review and which aims to simply business licensing procedures. The majority of parties have supported the bill in principle, however New Democracy ...
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A set of proposed short-term measures to ease Greece’s debt burden could reduce the country’s debt load by around a fifth in 2060, according to a paper drawn up by the the European Stability Mechanism, the eurozone’s bailout fund, and seen by The ...
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The exhibition aims to showcase Greece as a destination and promote its products, focusing on tourism, culture and gastronomy, North Events said in an announcement. For that reason, North Events set up a subsidiary, Hellas North American Events Inc, to ...
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Confidential proposals drawn up by the eurozone’s bailout fund European Stability Mechanism could reduce Greece’s debt load by about a fifth in 2060. The six -page document, dated November 25th 2016, outlines measures that that could be taken in the near future to reduce Greece’s large debt load. According to […]
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ATHENS, Nov. 30 (Xinhua) -- GREEK notaries nationwide on Wednesday continued a rolling 24-hour strike action called by their unions boycotting ...
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ATHENS, Nov. 30 (Xinhua) -- An EU official has been reluctant to respond to Greece's proposal on lowering primary surplus goals after 2018 to boost ...
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The Turkish leadership is trying to put on an equal par the victim with the perpetrator, GREEK Foreign Ministry Spokesman Stratos Efthymiou said on ...
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Anyone who considers that the international law is the law of the strong is wrong, GREEK President Prokopis Pavlopoulos said on Wednesday during ...
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The GREEK real estate market is slowly, but gradually, stabilizing, with a decline in house prices expected to slow to -2.3 pct in 2016, from -5.1 pct in ...
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His Eminence Archbishop Geron Demetrios of America spent two days – November 16 and 17 – at Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School in Theology in Brookline, MA. He met with... The post What’s Going on at the School of Theology? appeared first on The National Herald.
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The new, provocative statements of Turkish President Erdogan caused the strong reaction of all the political parties. In an effort to undermine the discussions on the Cyprus issue, the Turkish President accused the Republic of Cyprus of depicting the ...
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West Katakolon is the third oil and gas field to go into development in GREECE, following on from the Prinos oil field and South Kavala gas field, both of ...
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ATHENS Nov 30 GREECE said on Wednesday that talks to sell a 66 percent stake in gas grid operator DESFA to Azerbaijan's OSCAR did not conclude ...
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There are still stark differences across Europe's various countries when it comes to labor markets. Eurostat recently released data showing the expected durations of working life in European states for 2015, which uses demographic and labor force data to estimate the number of years a person aged 15 in a given nation is expected to be "active" — so, employed or unemployed but looking for work — in the labor market throughout his or her life. Norway, Sweden, Germany, and the UK are among the countries with the longest expected durations of working life — greater than 38 years. On the flip side, Italy, Poland, Greece, and Hungary are among the countries with the shortest expected durations of working life in Europe — less than 33 years. Check out the full map below, which was shared by Deutsche Bank's Torsten Sløk.[european work expectations]Deutsche Bank NOW WATCH: Here's how much you need to make to be in the top 1% of every state
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Radical leftist Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras was among the few leaders representing Europe at an hours-long event commemorating the life of dictator Fidel Castro in Cuba, praising the brutal tyrant as an “international symbol of struggle and ...
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Trust Women, an annual women's right and trafficking conference organized by the Thomson Reuters Foundation, will discuss solutions for tackling the crisis on Wednesday. - More than 173,000 have arrived in Greece and more than 167,000 in Italy.
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The head of a breastfeeding charity explains how refugee mothers in Greece are turning their camps into formula-free spaces When my Nurture Project International colleagues and I first arrived at the Eko camp near Idomeni in Greece, it looked like Glastonbury – just a bunch of pup tents. The mothers had no privacy, there was no support for infant feeding, and independent volunteers were going tent to tent handing out bottles of formula. While they thought they were helping, it was dangerous. Women in a situation of poor security will take anything that is offered to them, so even breastfeeding women will take formula milk. Many women think formula is healthier than their own milk and will start feeding it to their babies. Volunteers bring formula but in reality mothers don’t need it. Continue reading...
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For most Greeks, the picture of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras amid only five state leaders from Latin America and Africa paying homage to the late Fidel Castro in Havana was truly sad. And even more sad was the fact that he was there claiming that he ...
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Berkeley Springs International Water Tasting producer Jill Klein Rone traveled to Greece in May to present the gold medal for best tasting ...
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The famous statue of the GREEK goddess of love, Aphrodite, was found by a farmer on the island during a renovation of a wall on his property.
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BRUSSELS Nov 30 A European Stability Mechanism proposal for short-term debt relief for Greece would initially increase the debt-to-GDP ratio, then ...
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Fact: Giannis Antetokounmpo had 34 points, 12 rebounds, five assists and five steals in the Milwaukee Bucks' 118-101 win over the Cleveland ...
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The president of the Technical Chamber of Greece (TEE) George Stasinos presented the basic guidelines for modern town planning in the tourism ...
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Horizon Software (Horizon), the leading global technology provider for electronic trading and investment management, has announced today that ...
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