(CN) - A new marketing campaign rolled out by GREEK yogurt powerhouse ... 8 across the bow of Dannon, maker of the low-calorie Light & Fit GREEK ...
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How the world sees Greece
Tuesday, January 12, 2016
GREEK central bank Governor: No Grexit risk if country meets bailout conditions
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Greek central banker urges swift conclusion of bailout review, start of debt talks
International creditors have penciled in Jan. 18 to start a review of reforms agreed under the latest bailout, Greece's third since 2010. They aim to complete it in February, opening the door to negotiations on ways to reduce a debt burden about 1.8 times ...
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Hollywood Actor Jonathan Jackson to Release Album about Orthodoxy
Hollywood actor Jonathan Jackson, star of the legendary US soap opera General Hospital, has released a pop-rock album along with his band Enation, titled “Basileia ton Ouranon,” which explores the theme of Orthodoxy. The album was sponsored by the Greek Orthodox Vatopedi Monastery and Abbot Ephraim. Internet radio broadcaster Pemptousia FM of Vatopedi Monastery on Mount Athos, Greece,
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Chinese state shipper to acquire key GREEK port
It could increase such efforts once it officially acquires the GREEK port operator. Piraeus is expected to become a central location along Beijing's ...
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GREECE asks for more from Cosco Group
GREECE has asked Cosco Group (Hong Kong) for a juicier offer to take over the Piraeus Port Authority. The Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund ...
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GREECE Ratifies Defense Cooperation Agreement With Russia
A RIA Novosti correspondent reported that the Greek parliament ratified on Tuesday an intergovernmental agreement with Russia on military-technical ...
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Michael Dukakis: Austerity Is The Last Thing Greece Needs
Former U.S. senator, governor of Massachusetts and presidential candidate Michael Dukakis may not be actively involved in U.S. politics anymore, but he has never stopped following developments in Greece. In a rare interview with Greek news site Epikaira ...
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Israel just got another nuclear submarine
[netanyahu israeli navy israel rahav ins]REUTERS/Baz Ratner The INS Rahav is expected to reach Haifa on Tuesday, where top government and military officials will welcome the newest addition to Israel’s small navy. The German-built Rahav left the German port of Kiel last month. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Reuven Rivlin, IDF chief of staff Lt. Gen. Gadi Eizenkot and Israel Navy commander Admiral Ram Rothberg will take part in the ceremony along with a flotilla of warships and other water craft. Ordered a decade ago, the Rahav will be Israel’s fifth Dolphin-class submarine, joining the Tanin, Tekuma, Leviathan and Dolphin at the Haifa naval base. Israeli submarines are reportedly capable of being equipped with nuclear-armed missiles, affording the tiny Jewish state a “second-strike” capability in case it is attacked by nuclear weapons. Israel has not acknowledged the existence of Israeli nuclear weapons, though foreign media and analysts say it possesses as many as 200 warheads. Rahav is the Hebrew name for the Greek god of the sea, Neptune, and has been used for other naval ships in the past, but it can also mean “haughtiness” or “arrogance” in modern Hebrew. The submarine, built by the German Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft shipbuilding company, was unveiled in April 2013, but required an additional year and a half of work to make it fully operational. The diesel-powered sub is over 220 feet (67 meters) long and weighs more than 2,000 tons. It will be staffed by a crew of approximately 50 sailors. [Dolphin class submarine israel navy]REUTERS/Baz Ratner The vessel’s air-independent propulsion system, which operates through a fuel cell instead of using louder, oxygen-dependent sources, allows the submarine to remain underwater without surfacing for weeks at a time, a naval source said. The INS Rahav cost Israel a reported $2 billion (NIS 8 billion). The price tag, seen by some as exorbitant, was offset by a considerable discount from Berlin. Last year, the INS Tanin — “crocodile,” in Hebrew — arrived in Israel. The nuke-capable submarine, similar in most ways to the new Rahav, came equipped with 10 torpedo tubes capable of holding a variety of missiles, according to Defense News. [INS Tanin Israel navy]REUTERS/Baz Ratner Submarines, unmatched in their ability to hide from enemy navies, have long been a key element in Israel’s defense policy. Israel also purchased a sixth submarine from Germany in 2013 which is expected to be completed in a few years. It is not yet clear if it will join the current fleet or replace one of the older vessels. NOW WATCH: What this Navy SEAL's '40% rule' can teach you about success
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UPDATE 2-Canada's Transat looks to sell France, Greece operations
… by the political turmoil in Greece and the recent militant attacks … could sell the French and Greek operations for $40 million to … the assets in France and Greece, Beacon Securities Ltd George Trapkov …
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Greece’s Forgotten Recovery
After what seemed like never ending negotiations between the Greek government and the Troika—the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund—to settle Greece’s financial lifeline, the ordeal finally came to an ...
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GREECE'S biggest foreign investor threatens to halt mines project
A Canadian mining company that has invested $700m in gold extraction projects in northern GREECE has threatened to suspend its operations ...
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Eldorado Gold Corp (USA) (EGO) Suspends Mining Projects in GREECE
Shares of Eldorado Gold Corp (USA) (NYSE:EGO) are tumbling today on news that the company's subsidiary, Hellas Gold will suspend their Skouries ...
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Fake Life Jackets: A life and death threat to refugees crossing to Lesvos, Greece
How dangerous are the life jackets the refugees are using to cross from Turkey to Greece? This week a factory with 1,200 fake life jackets was found in Izmir, Turkey, at the same time 34 people were found dead, they drowned attempting to cross the Aegean sea. Were some of those fake life jackets part of the tragedy? Cesar Lopez Balan and I went to find an answer. -- 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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Canadian gold mining company spat with Greece
A dispute with the recent “leftist” government in Greece has led to suspension of operations at two Canadian run gold mines there. El Dorado Gold has announced it is “rethinking” its activities in Greece and has suspended activity at its Skouries ...
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Gold mining company VS Energy Ministry in Greece
Athens, January 12, 2016/ Independent Balkan News Agency By Olga Mavrou Canadian miner Eldorado Gold gave a press conference and declared that the whole enterprise is faced rather with hostility by the Greek government and that this can not continue, so “unless we receive a permit by the end of March, the company will […]
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Ethnic 101 roundup
Chopped Greek Salad with Pickled Onions, Pita Croutons and Feta-herb Dressing Makes 5 servings For the salad: ½ head leafy Romaine lettuce ½ orange bell pepper ½ cucumber, seeded ½ large tomato ¼ cup pitted Kalamata olives
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Greek State Minister: Less than 5 Private TV Channel Licenses
The number of nationwide TV licenses allocated by the Greek government to private broadcasters via a public tender will be less than five in order to secure their viability, Greek State Minister Nikos Pappas said during an interview on Tuesday. Speaking to ...
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Miner threatens to halt Greek gold project
Syriza accuses Canadian group of ‘blackmail’ after it complains of delays to licences and permits
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Imaging Devices in Greece
(live-PR.com) - With smartphones and tablets increasing their penetration rates in Greece, imaging devices continued to be replaced by them and it saw a sharp drop in retail volume terms in 2015. Greek consumers have started buying these products only when ...
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Transat planning to depart from GREECE
The move from Transat comes after a year in which their European operations were hurt due to the political turmoil in GREECE and the recent militant ...
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Will China Attain Getaway To Europe with Greek Port?
In a move that was highly anticipated, China’s Cosco Group has just made a bid for a majority share in Piraeus Port Authority (OLP), according to the Greek privatization agency. What is rather surprising is that there were no other bidders, which suggests that China’s strategic aims of using the Greek port of Piraeus as
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Greece Tests Rescue Robots at Sea; Apple Pushes Board Diversity
A Syrian refugee holding a baby swims towards the Greek island of Lesbos, Sept. 12, 2015, after a boat crammed with dozens of migrants and refugees deflated and sank. (Reuters) In Mediterranean waters off Greece, rescuing African and Middle Eastern ...
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UPDATE 1-Greece says China's Cosco sole bidder in Piraeus Port sale
The leftist government of Alexis Tsipras halted the port privatisation after winning elections in January last year but resumed the process under the 86 billion-euro bailout deal it agreed with its euro zone partners in August. Privatisations, a key ...
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Jumbo sees GREEK sales rise despite crisis, higher taxes
GREEK retailer Jumbo said on Tuesday it sees annual sales rising by 6 to 8 percent, more than initially expected, due to stronger sales in the first half of ...
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First session of gains for GREEK bourse in 2016
After five southbound sessions, with total losses of 7.87 percent, the benchmark of the GREEK stock market posted its first day of growth this year on ...
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International Students Head to GREEK Peak Through NY6 Program
A group of Hamilton's international students enjoyed a winter outing at ski area GREEK Peak on Jan. 9 . The winter retreat was sponsored by the New ...
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Deputy FM Amanatidis meets with representatives of the Greek communities of Canada
A meeting with representatives of the Greek communities of Canada took place at the Foreign Ministry today, Tuesday, 12 January 2016, to look at ways to solve the problems of the Greek community in Canada.The meeting was chaired by Deputy Foreign Minister Ioannis Amanatidis and attended by the Secretary General for Greeks Abroad, Michalis Kokkinos, the President of the Greek Community of Toronto, Antonis Artemakis, the President of the Greek Community of Montreal, Nikolas Pagonis, University of Western Macedonia Linguistics professor Kostas Dinas, associate professor of Linguistics at the University of Western Macedonia Eleni Griva, and officials from the Ministries...
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Finnish Finances Minister: Significant reforms progress in GREECE
Finnish Finances Minister: Significant reforms progress in GREECE Mr. Stubb stressed that he was happy to see the progress in financial stability, fiscal ...
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Eldorado Gold Corp. Stock Plummets as the Company Pulls Out of GREECE
There is still a lot of uncertainty when it comes to Eldorado and its operations in GREECE. It's possible that it will lose the Olympia mine as well, but its ...
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The More Things Change in GREECE, The More They Stay The Same
Golden-boys-660x300 SYRIZA's rise to power was accompanied by popular hopes for reform on all fronts: economic, environmental, political and ...
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Eldorado Gold Threatens…To Stay in GREECE
Wright went on to note that Eldorado's operations in northern GREECE led to the creation of “nearly 2000 new jobs and that more than 700 million euros ...
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Eldorado Gold Corp’s suspension of mining in Greece to cost 600 jobs, CEO says
… of its mining activities in Greece after confrontation with the country … its mining permit in northern Greece on environmental concerns. It won … in Greece. Wright said the treatment of Eldorado by the Greek government …
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GREEK police nab smuggler with 123 refugees in truck
A 31-year-old GREEK man was to face a prosecutor in Alexandroupoli on Tuesday after a police search of the truck he was driving close to the border ...
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China Cosco Makes Sole Bid for GREEK Port of Piraeus
Piraeus, a few miles south of the GREEK capital, is the de facto home of the country's giant shipping industry and is one of the largest ports in the ...
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The Polish Boomerang: How Warsaw's Adoption of the 'Budapest Model' Could Threaten the Original in Hungary
There is no denying that 2015 was a great year for Viktor Orbán, the illiberal Prime Minister of Hungary, who made the most of Europe's tragedies to transform himself from political pariah to ideological leader. While _Time_ chose his nemesis German Chancellor Angela Merkel as "Person of the Year," driven by convention and wishful thinking it seems, Politico declared "the conservative subversive" as the most influential person in the European Union. Although Merkel remains much more powerful than Orbán within Europe, I would still argue that 2015 went to the Mighty Magyar. While Merkel was at the center of both major crises last year, i.e. the Greek economic crisis and the refugees crisis, she was only partially successful in pushing through her position; both times being abandoned by several EU leaders and being undermined from within the Union, particularly by her increasingly (far) right Bavarian 'ally,' the Christian Social Union (CSU). In contrast, Orbán started the year in the margins, being increasingly criticized, though never sanctioned, for his illiberal policies in Hungary. When he used the terrorist attack on _Charlie Hebdo_, in January 2015, to start an ideological attack on multiculturalism in Europe, he was scolded. Similarly, his authoritarian stand against refugees in Hungary initially received more critique than support, particularly when he started to build a fence, but this changed quickly. In October he received applause at the Madrid Congress of the European People's Party, the most powerful political group within the EU, and after the traumatic terrorist attacks in Paris the next month politicians from across the continent joined his campaign against refugees, linking them to the terrorist attacks. "The success of the PiS in Poland could turn out to be a poisoned chalice for Orbán." However, Orbán's biggest win seemed to be the return to power of the right-wing populist Law and Justice (PiS) in Poland. Its (real) leader, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, was one of the first official fans of Orbán, declaring his "Budapest Model" the inspiration of PiS as far back as 2011. However, just like Fidesz had done in 2010, when it returned to power with a constitutional majority, PiS had run a fairly moderate and vague campaign, merely attacking the liberal governmental party Civic Platform (PO) and promising a lot to as many Poles as possible. It had even moved Kaczynski into the background, running the presidential elections with (now president) Andrzej Duda and the parliamentary elections with (now Prime Minister) Beata Szydo. Since coming to power, PiS threw off its moderate sheep clothes and went full force into radical right mode. It appointed controversial politicians, despite promising not to do so, cancelled the appointment of Constitutional Court judges, and has pushed for a complete politicization of the state media. In short, PiS tries to do in six months what Orbán has achieved in six years. However, Poland is not Hungary, and the authoritarian moves have led to strong push-back from both domestic and foreign actors, which could threaten the "Budapest Model" not just in Poland but also in Hungary. The most important difference between the situations in Poland and Hungary is that PiS does not have a constitutional majority. Although Orbán introduced illiberal measures in the 2010-2014 period, he did so with a democratic mandate, i.e. a constitutional majority in the mono-cameral parliament. Although the PiS can at times rely on support of the idiosyncratic, right-wing Kukiz'15 party, its democratic mandate is much weaker than that of Fidesz. A second important difference is that Poland does have a strong opposition party, the liberal PO, which has also a strong voice in Europe -- its former leader Donald Tusk, is the current EU President. Where Orbán has faced a weakly organized opposition, frustrated by petty infighting within the broader social democratic camp, Kaczynski is confronted with a broad coalition of oppositional forces, as was demonstrated in the large demonstrations against the new media law across Poland this weekend. Importantly, this opposition has a voice in the Sejm and Senate, most notably through PO. The third major difference is that Poland is too big to ignore for the EU and US. Whereas Hungary is a small country, slightly isolated by its complex and unique language, Poland is often seen as the bellwether of Central and Eastern Europe. What happens in Poland today, will happen in the rest of the region in a few years. Consequently, both the EU and the US responded fiercely against similar, though much less far-reaching, authoritarian trends during the first PiS government, between 2005 and 2007. A fourth and final major difference is that PiS is a member of the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR), a soft Eurosceptic transnational federation that has little political cloud in Brussels. This is in sharp contrast to Fidesz, which is a member of the powerful European People's Party (EPP), which has successfully shielded Orbán from EU sanctions in the past years. The recent developments in Poland are creating a dilemma for the EPP, as the main opposition party in that country, the PO, is also an EPP member. How to criticize the Budapest Model in Warsaw but not in Budapest itself? Consequently, the success of the PiS in Poland could turn out to be a poisoned chalice for Orbán. The new Polish government has already raised almost more domestic and foreign concern over the rise of illiberal democracy within the EU than the Hungarian governments have done in the past six years. This is unlikely to change, particularly because Kaczynski is a much less skillful politician than Orbán, who knows how to confuse and pamper his foreign critics. Most importantly, the PiS government could split the EPP, which will finally open up the way to EU sanctions of both Poland and Hungary. -- 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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Fat Boys Pizzeria owner charged with sales tax fraud
newsletter · GREECE Post · Classifieds · Jobs · Cars · HOMES. FEATURED ». NEWS NOW. Fat Boys Pizzeria owner charged with sales tax fraud .
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Cancer-patient fined with €10K for selling without license private items to pay lab tests
It’s not a melodrama for the sake of it. It is a real Greek story in times of real Greek austerity, of collapsed lives, of damaged health and broken dreams. A 65-year-old cancer-patient was dragged to two police stations and was fined with 10,000 euro for selling on the street […]
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Vancouver's Eldorado Gold cuts 600 jobs at troubled GREEK mine
Canadian miner Eldorado Gold (TSX:ELD) (NYSE:EGO) is suspending work at its mine in northern Greece and laying off 600 workers following ...
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ESMA Issues Negative Opinion On Extending GREEK Short Selling Ban
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has issued a negative opinion on a proposed extension of the emergency short selling ...
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Greece receives offer from China’s Cosco for Piraeus port
Greece’s privatization fund says China’s Cosco Group is the only bidder for a majority stake in the port of Piraeus, which is the debt-mired country’s biggest.
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Greek Taxpayers Face New Levy Rules
Out of sheer desperation for cash, but also as a display of its determination to go after tax debtors, the Greek Finance Ministry is preparing to levy bank accounts, wages and pensions, even for those who owe small amounts of back taxes but make over one thousand euros a month. According to the terms
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National Bank of Greece Announces Support Program for Startups
The National Bank of Greece (NBG) announced on Tuesday an initiative aimed to support startups with activities in e-commerce through its NBG BusinessSeeds program. The bank will award startups offering innovative products and services, present integrated business models, financial sustainability and high growth prospects. All eligible companies will be offered NBG’s i-bank e-commerce service free of charge
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New mortar production plant opens in GREECE
The new plant will balance the company's existing concrete admixture plant in Thessaloniki, northern GREECE, and will help expand its mortar business ...
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GREECE says China's Cosco Group is only bidder for majority stake in country's biggest port
ATHENS, GREECE (AP) — GREECE'S privatization fund says China's Cosco Group is the only bidder for a majority stake in the port of Piraeus, which is ...
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Canadian mining company partly suspends investment in northern Greece
ATHENS, Jan. 12 (Xinhua) -- Canadian mining company Eldorado Gold announced on Tuesday the suspension of a major part of its operations in northern Greece amidst an ongoing marathon confrontation with the Left-led Greek government on the terms of the ...
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Greece and Turkey to Start Talks on Tackling Migration Inflow
Greece and Turkey are planning a series of high-level bilateral meetings to discuss tackling the ongoing migrant influx. The trilateral talks between Greece, Turkey and Germany are likely to be called off, after German Chancellor Angela Merkel has come ...
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Greece, Israel could replace Turkey as tourist destinations for Russians
Russian resorts announced in December 2015 that they would raise their prices for the 2016 summer season, expecting tourists to go there in any case. Source: Getty Images/Fotobank As Turkey has virtually stopped being a tourist destination for Russians ...
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Greece Renews Anti-Austerity Calls
ATHENS—Greece renewed its challenge to its … calling on Europe to let Greece meet its fiscal targets mainly … with The Wall Street Journal, Greek Labor Minister George Katrougalos said …
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Eldorado Gold (EGO) Stock Plunges After Suspending Mining in Greece
… some of its activities in Greece. The Vancouver-based gold mining company … plans in Greece due to permitting delays from the Greek government, the … and process risks created by Greece's Ministry of Energy …
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