The economy in Greece has performed "substantially better" than forecast in its massive bailout deal, the EU said on Thursday, a day ahead of a key meeting of eurozone finance ministers to discuss the rescue. Greece and officials from the EU, ECB and IMF ...
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Thursday, April 21, 2016
A GREEK Letter Controls Our Weather
The past week we've had an omega blocking pattern taking shape which has provided some nearly “perfect” days of weather with comfortable temps ...
Untimely death: Path to WWF stardom had Chyna touring GREEK restaurants in NH as a bellydancer
She also toured GREEK restaurants around the state with a belly-dancing group. While living in New England, she started weight training as a way to ...
GREEK: Series Creator Talks Reunion Movie and Series Reboot
At its April 7th Upfront presentation, Freeform announced it is making a holiday movie reuniting the characters from the network's GREEK TV series.
Olympic Torch Lit Today in GREECE Ready to Travel to Brazil
A Greek high priestess lights the Olympic Torch in Olympia, GREECE, ahead of the 2016 Olympic Games which will be held in Rio de Janeiro, photo ...
GREECE'S debt crisis looks familiar
GREECE'S debt crisis looks familiar, but consequences may be worse ... of all EU crises has slowly and quietly been gathering steam again: GREECE.
Commission appears ready to back off on contingency measures for GREECE review
The Commission also offered national comment only for GREECE, as the much anticipated Eurostat report on EU's government deficit and debt that has ...
"We are not leaving" say migrants at Greek border camp
Google to be fined by EU in antitrust... The EU still hasn't found a definitive solution for the thousands of migrants from conflict zones in the Middle East and Africa who remain stuck along the closed Balkan route. This route leading from Turkey and ...
The Government's Latest Capitulation to Take Up to 3,000 Refugees Is Welcome
Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk - Thursday, April 21, 2016 Today the Government has announced that it would resettle more refugees from the region. You can be forgiven if you're now overcome by a sense of déjà vu. On the 28 January the Government announced that it would "work with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to lead a new initiative to resettle unaccompanied children from conflict regions" and now they have come forward with the detail. If I was cynical I'd remark on the fact that this latest announcement comes just days before a crucial vote in the Commons which would force the Tories to take 3,000 vulnerable child refugees from Europe and it seems that the Government are trying to buy off MPs ahead of that. Of course the Government's latest capitulation to take up to 3,000 individuals from the Syrian region over the next four years is welcome but it is simply not enough. When I travelled to Greece earlier this month I saw thousands of refugee children languishing in camps that were overstretched and understaffed. Tens of thousands of vulnerable children travelling alone arrived in Europe last year - this latest announcement will do nothing for them. Instead they will continue to live on food rations, without access to education and without hope or fall prey to traffickers and those who would exploit them. Even on the personnel side the Government is failing to step up to the plate. Today's announcement includes an offer of 75 experts to help the Greek authorities 'pro All Related
You say raki, I say ouzo
PERCHED on a hilltop a few miles from the sea, the Christian Maronite village of Kormakitis, in Turkish-controlled northern Cyprus, is running out of time. In 1974, when Turkish troops invaded the island following a Greek Cypriot coup, the town was home to some 2,000 people. Today about 110 pensioners remain. They spend their time at the café joking in the indigenous dialect, a blend of Arabic, Aramaic and Greek. Their children, who have moved to the richer Greek part of the island, visit on holidays. A Lebanese priest leads prayers at the newly restored church. Every fortnight a UN convoy arrives from Nicosia, the capital, carrying supplies. “There is no work here, no school and no room for investment,” says Napoleon Terzis, who worked in the Greek south as an air-traffic controller before returning to retire. Without jobs, he says, the town, its language and its people, who moved here from Lebanon in the 12th century, all face extinction. Mr Terzis and his friends place their hope in a united Cyprus. That prospect may be within reach. Since last year, Nicos Anastasiades, president of the Republic of Cyprus, and his counterpart,...
Pure swill
No mere alcoholic malt drink WITH films, exhibitions and a commemorative stamp, Germany is marking the 500th anniversary on April 23rd of an event considered central to the national identity. It is not Martin Luther’s nailing of his 95 theses to a church door in Wittenberg—that anniversary falls next year. Rather, it is the passing of a law concerning beer by two Bavarian dukes, Wilhelm IV and his brother Ludwig X. Henceforth, they decreed, brewers in Bavaria were to use only three ingredients: water, barley and hops. (They did not yet know about yeast, which occurs naturally in beer but was officially permitted as an additive only later.) Subsequently dubbed the _Reinheitsgebot, _or “German beer purity law”, the regulation spread. Otto I, a Bavarian prince who became king of Greece in the 19th century, subjected his new country’s brewers to its stringent rules (becoming perhaps the first German to impose austerity on the Greeks). Other German regions adopted it after unification in 1871, and from 1906 the whole of Germany did. Today the _Reinheitsgebot_—which governs lagers but...
Schaeuble pleasurably chews his bitter-sweet Grexit candy
In fact, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble agrees with the International Monetary Fund in one thing: they both doubt about the success of the 3. bailout program. However, as Schaeuble can never agree on the Greek debt relief proposed by the IMF, he chews again on this little bitter-sweet candy […]
LOOK: Insane atmosphere for GREEK soccer rivalry... for volleyball match
Soccer has given us some of the most passionate rivalries in world in any sport, which in turn produce atmospheres that aren't matched by any other ...
Greek Labor Min Katrougalos: Security Funds Deal Has Been Sealed
The deal regarding the security funds has been sealed, said Labor Minister George Katrougalos after the meeting with the creditors’ representatives, while he also supported that both parts have come together. The creditors’ representatives have accepted all the proposals from the Greek side and all that is left is a difference of 70 million euros
Photos: Ceremony to light the Olympic flame in Greece
… Olympic flame in Ancient Olympia, Greece, on April 21, 2016. The … Olympic flame in Ancient Olympia, Greece, on April 21, 2016. The …
Beleaguered Brazil 'ready to deliver' as Olympic flame lit in Greece
… Nazi Germany. The first torchbearer, Greek world gymnastics champion Eleftherios Petrounias … hundreds. The relay will traverse Greece for six days until the … refugees and migrants trapped in Greece — one of whom will participate …
Greek PM calls for debt relief, rejects more austerity after Eurostat data
Economic progress has been a sticking point in bailout talks, which have dragged on for months as the European Union and the International Monetary Fund argue over whether Greece can achieve a 3.5 percent primary surplus in 2018. Athens and the EU believe ...
World Press View: Fears That Brexit Could Bring Grexit
If voters in the United Kingdom decide in a referendum to leave the European Union it could bring down Greece over an economic crisis too.
GREEK life, SAO get revamp
The imminent hiring of a new administrator in charge of GREEK life will be one among many shake-ups for fraternities and sororities. In recent weeks ...
Olympics 2016: Olympic torch begins journey to Rio
The Olympic torch has been lit in southern Greece, kicking off the countdown to Rio 2016.
Rio Olympic flame lit in GREECE - and it has a Twitter account
April 21, 2016 9:33am EDT April 21, 2016 9:33am EDT News, English, Olympics, Rio 2016 "After spending years in the darkness I can't wait to see the ...
GREECE, EU/IMF lenders make progress but still no deal
On Thursday, Eurostat data also showed that GREECE had a primary budget surplus before debt service last year, beating the target set in its bailout ...
Exclusive: GREECE needs debt relief to take final step to recovery, says Tspiras
The Greek economy is just one step away from a recovery but needs debt relief, not further austerity, to cross the finish line, Greek prime minister ...
Global Greek Yogurt Industry Analysis and Trend 2016 Latest Research Report
Researchmoz added Most up-to-date research on "Global Greek Yogurt Industry 2016 Market Research Report" to its huge collection of research reports. The Global Greek Yogurt Industry 2016 Market Research Report is a professional and in-depth study on the ...
2 men describe surviving big migrant shipwreck last week
[Mowlid Isman, 28, from Somalia, left, speaks as Muaz Mahmud, 25, from Ethiopia looks on during a press conference organized by non-governmental organizations in Athens, Thursday, April 21, 2016. The two men say they are survivors from a shipwreck last week in the Mediterranean Sea that international groups say left as many as 500 people feared dead. (AP Photo/Theodora Tongas)]ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Two men who were among 41 people picked up over the weekend from a boat found adrift in the Mediterranean Sea described on Thursday surviving what they say was a shipwreck that might have killed up to 500 people.
The Latest: Spain to take in 182 refugees in coming weeks
[Children play in a makeshift camp at the northern Greek border point of Idomeni, Greece, Thursday, April 21, 2016. Many thousands of migrants remain at the Greek border with Macedonia, hoping that the border crossing will reopen, allowing them to move north into central Europe. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)]ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The Latest on Europe's migration crisis (all times local):
Land of the gods: Collegiate Scholars to travel to Greece - not Turkey
Just 36 days before the Collegiate Scholars program planned to leave for Turkey, it changed the destination of its annual trip for rising seniors to Greece, after the U.S. Mission in Turkey on April 9 released an emergency message concerning the ...
GREEK Week Closes with Volunteering at Bergen County Horse Rescue By REBECCA KING
Ramapo's GREEK community got to work this Saturday, painting, mending, cleaning and organizing the Bergen County Horse Rescue that sits across ...
Olympics 2016: Torch lit, countdown begins
The Olympic torch has been lit in southern Greece, kicking off the countdown to Rio 2016.
Greece’s Lenders Split Over Reforms, Talks Lag
Greece's leftist-led coalition government will miss an April 22 deadline - when Eurozone chiefs meet - to complete talks with international lenders who are now even more divided over reforms and debt relief for a country sinking under austerity.
Rio 2016: Turmoils continue to rise Brazil as olympic torch is lit in ancient Greek ceremony at Olympia
The official countdown to this year's Rio de Janeiro Olympics began on Thursday when the torch was lit at the site of the ancient Games, with organisers hoping it will shift attention away from Brazil's political and financial turmoil. On a glorious spring ...
Today's top pics: Olympic flame lighting in GREECE and more
Hungary's Dora Vass takes part in a training session for the Rhythmic Gymnastics test event at the Rio Olympic Arena in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, ...
Rio 2016 Olympic flame is lit at temple of Hera in GREECE
The official countdown to this year's Rio de Janeiro Olympics has begun after the torch was lit at the site of the ancient Games, with organisers hoping ...
GREEK fire lights up Rio 2016 Games... Olympic Torch
The Olympic flame for the Rio 2016 Games is now burning brightly. In an evocative lighting ceremony on Thursday (21 April) in the GREEK town of ...
The gift of GREEK history
Farmington High School will offer a slightly skewed take on the entirety of GREEK mythology with this week's production of its spring play: The Iliad, the ...
Syrian refugee 'dies after being hit by police van' in GREECE
A Syrian refugee has reportedly died of his injuries after being hit by a police van in GREECE. The 40-year-old man died at hospital in the city of ...
Road to Rio: Countdown begins with traditional Olympic torch lighting in GREECE
Ancient Olympia, GREECE: The official countdown to this year's Rio de Janeiro Olympics began on Thursday when the torch was lit at the site of the ...
GREECE'S fiscal performance in 2015 questions IMF projections
ATHENS, April 21 (Reuters) - GREECE'S fiscal performance last year beat targets, raising doubts over the credibility of the International Monetary Fund's ...
EUROSTAT: Greece’s Primary Surplus 0.7% of GDP in 2015
The much anticipated EUROSTAT data on EU’s government deficit and debt has been released. According to the data, Greece’s government deficit and debt for 2015 was 0.7% of the GDP. The Greek debt is 176.9% of the GDP and not 200% as it was claimed by several analysts last summer. […]
Idomeni: Syrian refugee hit by police van dies in hospital
The Syrian refugee who was hit by a police van on Monday, died in Papageorgiou hospital in Thessaloniki Thursday noon. The man suffered severe injuries in the head, the doctors could not save him. Officially the Greek police says that it was an accident. According to Greek police, the man […]
Turkey meets less than half EU visa waiver terms
[Presidential Palace handout photo shows Turkish President Erdogan attending a ceremony to mark the 101st anniversary of Battle of Canakkale, as part of the WWI Gallipoli campaign, in Canakkale]By Gabriela Baczynska BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Turkey has met fewer than half the conditions for its citizens to be granted early visa-free travel to the European Union, just 10 days before a deadline for it to meet the requirements, an EU official told lawmakers on Thursday. The EU promised last month to extend visa liberalisation to Turkey by the end of June in return for its agreement to take back all illegal migrants who cross to Greece from its shores, provided it fulfilled all the so-called benchmarks. The executive European Commission is due to report to member states and the European Parliament on May 4 whether Ankara has met the goals, and has set April 31 as a cut-off date for Turkey to pass the necessary measures.
Olympic Flame for the Rio Games has been Lit in Olympia, Greece
The Olympic flame for the 2016 Rio Games has been lit in ancient Olympia in Greece on Thursday, launching the torch relay for the first-ever South American Games. In a bright ceremony, the flame was lit by the sun in the Temple of Hera in Olympia, as per the ancient tradition. Then it will travel through
Torch lit in Greece for 2016 Rio Olympic games, relay to begin
… Olympic flame in Ancient Olympia, Greece, Thursday, April 21, 2016. The … this morning in Ancient Olympia, Greece. The ceremony started the iconic … begins with a tour of Greece and will end in Rio …
Olympic torch for Rio games lit in southern Greece
… has been lit in southern Greece, BBC News reports. It will … was kindled on Thursday by Greek actress Katerina Lehou. The torch … begin a six-day relay across Greece, passing through the town of …
Olympic Flame Lit in Ancient Greek Ruins
… torch in southern Greece. The torch will travel through Greece before reaching … Olympic flame in Ancient Olympia, Greece, Thursday, April 21, 2016. Thanassis … , the torch will travel throughout Greece before reaching Brazil. The Brazilian …
German Fin Min: GREEK Bailout Success Uncertain in Long Term
The GREEK government's willingness to accept European Union help in tackling the refugee influx is reason for optimism that the country will take more ...
GREEK Budget Numbers Boost Government Position in Bailout Talks
GREEK negotiators are locked in talks with euro-area and International Monetary Fund officials to agree on austerity measures needed to release loans, ...
Greek Media Strike Two Days
Fury over the prospect of more pensions cuts has led Greece's print and electronic media to say it will join a two-day strike of private workers.
Rio 2016: Olympic flame is lit in GREECE as countdown to Games continues
The flame, which will travel through GREECE for a week before beginning its full journey to Rio, was lit by the sun in the Temple of Hera in Olympia, as ...
GREECE Secures Boost to Budget Data
BRUSSELS—GREECE achieved an adjusted primary surplus of 0.7% of gross domestic product in 2015, a European Commission spokeswoman said ...