How the world sees Greece
ATHENS, Jan 18 (Reuters) – Greece will evaluate on Wednesday an improved bid that China’s Cosco is due to submit for a majority stake in Piraeus Port, a senior official at the privatisation agency (HRADF) said on Monday. Cosco was the sole bidder for a ...
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N. KOTZIAS: Yesterday, for the first time, we had a meeting of the four Balkan countries that are members of the EU – that is, Croatia, Romania, Bulgaria and Greece – to initiate closer cooperation on European issues, the European path of the Balkans. To formulate common proposals for major investment plans, for rail, energy and road networks. For joint efforts towards the accession of the Western Balkans to the EU. This is the first time this cooperation has been held in an organized manner among the four members states. And we agreed to continue, in a few days, at...
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ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Olympiakos 17-game winning streak in the Greek league ended Monday after being held 1-1 by lowly Platanias.
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Tsakalotos said GREECE was pressing bailout lenders for a swift review of the. ... Tsakalotos headed dramatic negotiations last year between GREECE'S ...
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GREECE is hoping to be among the countries that will benefit from the 4 percent rise in global tourism the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) ...
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Bank of Greece governor and former Memorandum of Understanding II Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras finally ound back to his rebel alter ego of social democracy and other nice stuff. Apparently tied of being a slave of the creditors, rebel Stournaras raised his head and attacked … Germany. “The present risks […]
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… love to do something in Greece,'” Papadakis says. (Though Canadian … , her family roots are in Greece. In Crete, she lives about three … Greece in hopes of expanding the program to other cities. If Greeks …
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EU foreign affairs council agrees common position on Israel and occupied Palestinian territories after Greece drops its opposition The European Union has unanimously adopted a tough resolution criticising Israeli settlement activity in the occupied Palestinian territories, despite fierce efforts by Israel to persuade some EU members to block it. The resolution was agreed by the EU foreign affairs council on Monday after Greece, one of five countries Israel had hoped would block acceptance of the resolution, backed down following a weekend of wrangling and pressure from Palestinian officials and other European diplomats. Continue reading...
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All the latest economic and financial news, as world markets continue to gyrate amid fears over China’s economy * European markets sag after early rally * Stiglitz: China fears are overblown * Japan on brink of bear market * Oil falls though $28 after Iranian santions lifted 6.42pm GMT And on a final note, tough negotiations between debt-stricken Greece and its creditors over further cost-cutting measures has once again – alas - got off to a rocky start as the role of the International Monetary Fund comes under scrutiny. “It is very important that pensions are not reduced for a 12th or 13th time for social and economic reasons.” 6.17pm GMT AFTER A JITTERY DAY, EUROPE’S MAIN STOCK MARKETS ALL CLOSED LOWER TONIGHT. That extends 2016’s losses, but it’s a whimper rather than a rout. The absence of the usual bump in afternoon volumes from US investors left European stock markets a little sleepy on Monday as Americans celebrated Martin Luther King Jr Day. As has become the custom recently; it was the volatile price of oil that set the tone for equity trading. A bounce off the lows set in Asian trading for crude oil helped an encouraging start for European equities but as oil prices slid back, equities fell into the red. Continue reading...
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In 2016, GREECE begins its first full year as a post-democracy, a fiscal ward of the European Union whose leaders take their orders from Berlin and ...
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The election of Kyriakos Mitsotakis as leader of the New Democracy party ushers in a new era in Greek politics and can be taken as a point of departure from the populist politics of the traditional right. ND’s leader comes across as a staunch neoliberal who is convinced that the solution to Greece’s economic problems
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Greece can depend on European solidarity, German President Joachim Gauck said after his meeting on Monday with his Greek counterpart Prokopis Pavlopoulos, who is visiting Germany. “As presidents we want, on our level, to stabilize the long friendship ...
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Liberal MPs Nickolas Varvaris and George Vellis, will be attempting to claim the Barton seat in New South Wales in the next federal election. Vellis announced his intention to participate in the election with the Labor party a few days ago. Vellis is well ...
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GREEK Minister of Finance Euclid Tsakalotos and Spokeswoman of Government Olga Gerovasili giving a press conference about the state of ...
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Press conference of GREEK Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos concerning his six meetings, with European ministers during last week, and also in ...
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Deborah Coble Wise, pastor at Trinity United Methodist in Waverly, packs suitcases with donated supplies Saturday for her trip to the GREEK island of ...
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Fancy owning your own hotel in GREECE? Well now you can - and it's cheaper than buying a house. New research has revealed that more than 480 ...
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Greece's head of state has described the situation in which Turkish border authorities aid smugglers as "a type of slave trade." He met with his German counterpart to discuss ways to curb the influx of migrants.
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With no end to the Greek economic crisis and the fear of bank collapse, wary Greeks have been withdrawing cash for years although there has been no wild bank run. The rich have pulled their money out of local banks and moved them abroad while the average ...
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ATHENS — Union discontent is growing in Greece against planned pension reforms, with civil servants joining in a strike by private sector workers next month in what will be the first general strike of the year in the financially struggling country. The ADEDY umbrella civil service union said Monday it will participate in the Feb. […] The post Unions Call Strike on Pension Reform appeared first on The National Herald.
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By Dr. Dimitra Kamarinou If you pay attention to the endings, it is very easy to distinguish the verb among the words in a sentence. For example if a word ends in –ω, it is a verb in present tense, first person, singular. Eγώ κάν-ω = I do, εγώ μÎν-ω= I stay. Greek verbs are […] The post Special TNH Feature: Our Everyday Greek – Greek Verbs Conjugation Made Easy appeared first on The National Herald.
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Tsipras’ Syriza-led government has done more somersaults since it came to power than an acrobatic gymnastics team in Olympic competition. Take for example its stance on the IMF and the so-called Troika in general. First, Tsipras and his lieutenants ...
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Athens, January 18, 2015/Independent Balkan News Agency By Marina Spyropoulou Greece has invited IMF to participate in the third Greek bailout and is open to compromises to bridge diverging views on the planned pension system reform and other issues, Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos told media in Athens on Monday. However, a swift conclusion of […]
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Nepotism, favoritism, and cronyism have become such pervasive phenomena in financially bankrupt and poverty-stricken Greece under the Syriza-led government that EU officials are warning that the new bailout program may be at risk. EU officials have been on ...
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The president of Travelive, a tour company that customizes luxury vacations in Greece and the Mediterranean, Ms. Agnos splits her time between Athens and Boca Raton, Fla. Last summer in Boca Raton, her running route took her past Synergy Fitness Boca ...
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AP Photo/Thanassis StavrakisA riot policeman tries to avoid a petrol bomb thrown by protesters during a rally in Athens, Thursday, Nov. 12, 2015. Brazil Is the New Greece And 90% of government spending cannot be cut by law At 70% of GDP, public debt is ...
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GREECE'S finance minister says his government is pressing lenders for a swift review of the country's bailout program, warning that delays would ...
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Hellenic Petroleum is estimated to owe $550-600 million for oil it bought from Iran but was unable to pay when the international embargo was imposed, a source close to discussions between Iran and Greece told Reuters last month. Iranian Deputy Oil Minister ...
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A delay in talks with international creditors on the evaluation of Greece's reforms and debt relief could ultimately doom the new bailout, the Greek finance minister warned Monday. "If (the evaluation) is not concluded within a reasonable timeframe this ...
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A Turkish captain of a smuggler boat which capsized off the coast of Agathonisi killing three Syrian children under five years of age that were abroad has been arrested by Greek authorities on the island of Samos. Turkish smugglers are luring refugees eager to get to Europe onto crumbling boats. The journey across the Aegean
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The government of Alexis Tsipras has to fight on two fronts on the security funds issue: surging social reactions within Greece and the international creditors who insist on more pension cuts and restructuring of security funds. The Panhellenic ...
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Berlin (dpa) - GREEK President Prokopis Pavlopoulos said Monday that Athens will meet the commitments under its rescue package while praising the ...
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Despite GREECE not having been a monarchy since the 1970's Marie-Chantal and her husband are still known as 'Their Royal Highness the Crown ...
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Prince Harry has a new blonde beauty and this one is a royal, too! The British hunk is said to be dating Princess Maria-Olympia of GREECE and ...
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The fierce, fearsome, war-loving female warriors known as Amazons existed in ancient Greece, according to American historian Adrienne Mayor. The Stanford University historian’s book “The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women Across the Ancient ...
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ATHENS, Jan. 18 (Xinhua) -- Greece wants the International Monetary Fund (IMF)'s participation in the third Greek bailout and the swift conclusion of the new review of the program to stay on the right track to success, Greek Finance Minister Euclid ...
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Investing.com – Greece stocks were lower after the close on Monday, as losses in the Banking, Healthcare and Financials sectors led shares lower. At the close in Athens, the Athens General-Composite declined 2.74% to hit a new 3-years low. Gold for ...
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Refugees crossing Europe are facing worsening conditions, after blankets of snow covered large parts of Europe, with countries such as Serbia, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria and Poland being some of the worst affected, while the Greek island of Samos was hit by unseasonably low temperatures and high winds.
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The Greek government signed a combat-the- tax-evasion deal with the German Federal State of Northrhine-Westfalia. The Germans will help the Greeks with know-how, staff training and data sharing. Based on the agreement conditions, 50 Greek tax officers will go to NRW and get the appropriate training to combat one of […]
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… introduced in Greece since the beginning of private television broadcasting. Greece is … and national authorities. According to Greek government sources, however, the EU … , also by three opposition parties (PASOK, Potami, Centrists).
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At its meeting on 18 January 2016, the General Council of the Bank of Greece approved the Bank's audited Annual Accounts for the financial year ending 31.12.2015. The net income of financial year 2015 amounted to €1,897.5 million, while expenses ...
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GREEK Fire (unplugged) will mark the Firebird's seventh anniversary with a show on Feb. 6. Show time is at 8 p.m.. Tickets are $15-$17, available ...
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“There are lots of countries ready to offer special conditions for our tourists. These are Israel, Bulgaria, GREECE, Vietnam, Thailand, China, Sri Lanka, ...
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These illegal economic migrants, who arrive in GREECE because Turkish authorities are not doing their work, should be sent back to Turkey under the ...
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[Size of Io]John Brady When compared to giant, gaseous planets like Jupiter and Saturn, our Earth is tiny. But that doesn't mean we have to feel small all of the time, especially compared to the many moons throughout our solar system. The picture above is of the fourth largest moon in the solar system, Io, placed on top of North America for scale. Io is the closest moon to Jupiter and is one of the most inhospitable places imaginable. Earth's moon, by comparison, is the fifth-largest moon and is nearly the same size as Io. Here's a chart of Earth and the largest moons in our solar system indicating how our planet an moon compare in size. [moons of solar system]John BradyThe moon Io might look like a golden sphere, or as John Brady for Astronomy Central describes it as resembling a cheese pizza, but this moon actually gets its yellow-hue from the chemical element, sulfur. Io is the most geologically active object in our solar system and also the driest. Dotting its surface are more than 400 active volcanoes, some of which erupt plumes of sulfur and sulfur dioxide — a toxic gas that has a pungent, rotten odor — so high that they would engulf the International Space Station. But when compared to its parent planet, Jupiter, this sprightly moon looks minuscule and harmless. [Io and Jupiter]John BradyThe image of Io that John Brady used to make the comparison picture up top, is a true-color image taken by NASA's Galileo spacecraft in 1999. The original is shown below. All of the dark pockmarks across the surface are erupting volcanoes. One of Io's famous volcanoes, located just left of center, is Prometheus, which the International Astronomical Union named after the Greek fire god the same year it was discovered in 1979. [Io]John BradyOver the years, this volcano's lava has flowed and cooled 62 miles away from the eruption site. If you look closely, you can see a lighter-yellow circle surrounding the volcano and a red streak to the right. The light yellow circle is comprised of sulfur dioxide deposits from the volcano while the red is from red sulfur. At room temperatures, sulfur is yellow, but when you heat it to above 392 degrees Fahrenheit, it turns a deep red and adopts a molten consistency. Here's an up-close image of Prometheus taken by Galileo. [Prometheus]John Brady
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As of January 1 2016, Law 4335/2015 has come into force. This law was passed in the context of structural reforms imposed by Greece's creditors as a condition to the bailout with an objective to accelerate judicial proceedings and includes important ...
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French state secretary for European Affairs Harlem Desir said Greece and several other countries want changes to well-established EU positions. “Some countries have said they would like to see some changes. We will listen to them but it is obviously ...
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We've all seen the images of refugees fleeing Syria and other areas, making harrowing and dangerous water crossings where inflatable, unstable boats often capsize or fall apart. The governments of the nations where the refugees are arriving as well as many ...
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Is this how "Europe" ends? The Germans, founders and funders of the postwar union, shut their borders to refugees in a bid for political survival by the chancellor who let in a million migrants. And then -- why not? -- they decide to revive the Deutschmark while they're at it. That is not the fantasy of diehard Eurosceptics but a real fear articulated at the highest levels in Berlin and Brussels. Chancellor Angela Merkel, her ratings hit by crimes blamed on asylum seekers at New Year parties in Cologne, and EU chief executive Jean-Claude Juncker both said as much last week. Juncker echoed Merkel in warning that the central economic achievements of the common market and the euro are at risk from incoherent, nationalistic reactions to migration and other crises. He renewed warnings that Europe is on its "last chance", even if he still hoped it was not "at the beginning of the end". Merkel, facing trouble among her conservative supporters as much as from opponents, called Europe "vulnerable" and the fate of the euro "directly linked" to resolving the migration crisis -- highlighting the risk of at the very least serious economic turbulence if not a formal dismantling of EU institutions. Some see that as mere scare tactics aimed at fellow Europeans by leaders with too much to lose from an EU collapse -- Greeks and Italians have been seen to be dragging their feet over controlling the bloc's Mediterranean frontier and eastern Europeans who benefit from German subsidies and manufacturing supply chain jobs have led hostility to demands that they help take in refugees. Germans are also getting little help from EU co-founder France, whose leaders fear a rising anti-immigrant National Front, or the bloc's third power, Britain, consumed with its own debate on whether to just quit the European club altogether. So, empty threat or no, with efforts to engage Turkey's help showing little sign yet of preventing migrants reaching Greek beaches, German and EU officials are warning that without a sharp drop in arrivals or a change of heart in other EU states to relieve Berlin of the lonely task of housing refugees, Germany could shut its doors, sparking wider crisis this spring. GERMAN WARNINGS With Merkel's conservative allies in the southern frontier state of Bavaria demanding she halt the mainly Muslim asylum seekers ahead of tricky regional elections in March, her veteran finance minister delivered one of his trademark veiled threats to EU counterparts of what that could mean for them. "Many think this is a German problem," Wolfgang Schaeuble said in meetings with fellow EU finance ministers in Brussels. "But if Germany does what everyone expects, then we'll see that it's not a German problem -- but a European one." Senior Merkel allies are working hard to stifle the kind of parliamentary party rebellion that threatened to derail bailouts which kept Greece in the euro zone last year. But pressure is mounting for national measures, such as border fences, which as a child of East Germany Merkel has said she cannot countenance. "If you build a fence, it's the end of Europe as we know it," one senior conservative said. "We need to be patient." A senior German official noted that time is running out, however. "The chancellor has been asking her party for more time," he said. "But ... that narrative ... is losing the persuasiveness it may have had in October or November. If you add in the debate about Cologne, she faces an increasingly difficult situation." He noted that arrivals had not fallen sharply over the winter months as had been expected. "You can only imagine what happens when the weather improves," he said. SCHENGEN FEARS Merkel and Juncker explicitly linked new national frontier controls across Europe's passport-free Schengen zone to a collapse of the single market at the core of the bloc, and of the euro. Both would ravage jobs and the economy. "Without Schengen ... the euro has no point," Juncker told a New Year news conference on Friday. Historic national resentments were re-emerging, he added, accusing his generation of EU leaders of squandering the legacy of the union's founders, survivors of World War Two. Merkel has not suggested -- yet -- that Berlin could follow neighbors like Austria and Denmark in further tightening border checks to deny entry to irregular migrants. But she has made clear how Europe might suffer. "No one can pretend that you can have a common currency without being able to cross borders relatively easily," she said at a business event last week. In private, German officials are more explicit. "We have until March, the summer maybe, for a European solution," said a second German official. "Then Schengen goes down the drain." A senior EU official was equally blunt: "There is a big risk that Germany closes. From that, no Schengen ... There is a risk that the February summit could start a countdown to the end." The next summit of EU leaders one month from now follows meetings last year that were marked by agreement on a migration strategy as well as rows over failures to implement it. Of the 160,000 asylum seekers EU leaders agreed in September to distribute among member states, fewer than 300 have been moved. Berlin and Brussels continue to press for more distribution across Europe. But few place much hope in that -- one senior German official calls it "flogging a dead horse". TURKISH KEY EU leaders' hope is for help from Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, a man many of them see as an embryonic dictator. Berlin is pressing for more EU cash for Ankara, beyond an agreed 3 billion euros, which Italy is blocking. Some Germans suggest simply using German funds to stem the flow from Turkey. EU officials say it is too early to panic. Arrivals have fallen this month. U.N. data show them running in January at half the 3,500 daily rate of December. Progress includes a move to let some of the 2.1 million Syrian refugees in Turkey take jobs. The EU will fund more schools for refugee children. Yet EU Migration Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos, who travels to Berlin on Monday, told the European Parliament last week: "The situation is getting worse." The refugee crisis was jeopardizing "the very core of the European Union", he said, offering no grounds to be optimistic other than that "optimism is our last line of our defense". -- This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. 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