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Monday, September 5, 2016

Greek Media: Greece Accepts Macedonian Passports

The Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs has distributed a document to competent services, which reads that citizens who present Macedonian passports at the borders should be treated the same as other nationals from third countries, the website Newpost reads.


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GREEK Public Administration Reform Council meeting concluded

A meeting of the Government Council for Public Administration Reform, chaired by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, was held at the Maximos Mansion on ...


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Recipe for GREEK salad subs

Here, crusty rolls hold the elements of a classic GREEK salad. Italian ciabatta with its spongy crumb works beautifully, but you can use any sub-size rolls ...


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Greeks vote with their feet

When New York Times columnist Tom Friedman visited Greece at the beginning of the crisis, he wrote that the only way to know if Greece will handle the crisis successfully...


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Letter from Athens: Now Greece Will Have Only Four Private TV Stations, But Nothing On

Greek TV station owners who cried foul when Prime Minister and Looney Left SYRIZA leader Alexis “The Great Reneger” Tsipras decided to cut the number of private licenses to only...


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Confidence in the New Ethniki Omada

Greece kicks off in FIFA World Cup qualifying tomorrow with hopes of forgetting their tragic Euro 2016 qualifying campaign. The goal is clear-for Greece to return to the world’s biggest...


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The Greek War Heroes of Argentinean Independence

A memorial hanging outside the Buenos Aires Naval Academy in Argentina features Hydra mariner Nikolaos G. Kolmaniatis (Nicolas Jorge Colmaniatis), who emigrated to Argentina in 1811, enlisted in the navy as a sailor, and rose through the ranks to become ...


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EU official: Greece not to receive €2.8 billion tranche in September

According to the Sunday edition of German newspaper ‘Handelsblatt Global’, the Eurozone will not release the 2.8 billion Euro sub tranche to Greece at the upcoming EuroGroup meeting in Bratislava. The article cites diplomatic sources as saying that ...


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Polish daredevil slackliner completes terrifying walk 300ft in the air in GREECE

Laetitia Gonnon, 24, from Poland, managed to make her way across the 280ft-long slackline above the stunning town of Leonidio in GREECE.


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Gibraltar vs GREECE prediction: betting preview with bet365 odds and our tips – 06 September 2016

Gibraltar vs GREECE prediction: betting preview with bet365 odds and our tips – 06 September 2016. Sean Donnelly ...


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Greek Parliament to host special debate on smoking ban legislation

The Standing Committee on Social Affairs in the Greek Parliament will host a special debate on the implementation of smoking ban legislation, at the request of the Hellenic Cardiological Society (EKE). EKE recently participated in the recent debate, last ...


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Greek Fire: Interview with Konstantinos Karatolios

One of my favorite sayings is “Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” Unfortunately, we see such consequences all around us. And it’s no wonder, considering the way they taught history when I was growing up, which was ...


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Lindsay Lohan steps out in Greece with restaurateur Dennis Papageorgiou

Lindsay Lohan may have found herself a Greek god. Just a month after calling off her engagement, the newly single actress was seen vacationing in Greece with restaurateur and millionaire, Dennis Papageorgiou. Lilo, 30, and her former fiancé Egor Tarabasov ...


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GREEK universities slip in global rankings

GREEK universities have slipped in global rankings this year, according to Quacquarelli Symonds, which publishes an annual overview of higher ...


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HELEXPO CEO: TIF 2016 reflects trends in GREEK economy

The 81st Thessaloniki International Fair (TIF) that opens its doors later this week provides a 'map' of the basic trends and developments in the GREEK ...


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Drop in GREEK exports again sounds alarm bells in sector

A drop in the value of GREEK exports in the first half of the year, which aggravated an already recession-plagued economy, has been mostly attributed ...


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The Latest: Italy's coast guard recovers 15 migrant bodies

2:30 p.m. A year after the European Union launched its refugee sharing plan so member countries could help overwhelmed Greece and Italy less than five percent of the migrants have been relocated. European Commission figures show that only 4,473 asylum ...


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Greek unions preparing for opening of Thessaloniki International Fair

The General Confederation of Greek Workers (GSEE), Greece’s highest trade union body, has arranged to carry out a demonstration on Saturday in Thessaloniki, ahead of the Prime Minister’s appearance at the Thessaloniki International Fair. Prior to ...


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Eurogroup on Greece's progress in meeting financial programme milestones

Greece's progress in implementing the prior actions needed for the disbursement of further financial support under the Greek programme is one of the topics to be discussed by Eurozone finance ministers meeting in Bratislava on Friday, according to the ...


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GREEK-Bulgarian pipeline expects bids by end-October

Bulgarian state-owned energy holding company BEH has 50 percent in the joint venture which will build the IGB pipeline, while GREEK state energy ...


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Greek theatre hosts play for refugees after 2,100 years

A forceful cry breaks from her lips as she spreads her arms wide open. The words come out in Greek, but her grief can be felt in all languages. "Just one day was enough to lose everything," she says, dressed entirely in plain mourning black. "Respect me ...


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Feature: Ancient theater of Delos island reopens after 2,100 years to stage play on refugee crisis

DELOS, Greece, Sept. 5 (Xinhua) -- The ancient theater of Delos island came alive this weekend for the first time after 2,100 years to host a play, based on ancient Greek tragedies, that aims to raise awareness about the ongoing drama of refugees ...


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GREECE faces standoff over bailout funds after Athens fails to impose reforms

Klaus Regling, head of the European Stability Mechanism, said GREECE should be able to secure short-term debt relief measures 'very soon'.


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Doctors of the World Urge Separate Accommodation for Unaccompanied Minors

  The Greek division of Doctors of the World (MdM-Greece) urged the government and other involved groups to put an end to the matter of unaccompanied minors being held at Moria’s detention camp at Lesvos (Mytilene). A press release by the NGO states concern following a fight that broke out between minors on Sunday night. […]


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Monday’s Tally: 59,569 Identified Migrants and Refugees in Greece

There were 59,569 identified refugees and migrants on Greek territory on Monday while 110 new arrivals were reported in the last 24 hours. According to the Refugee Crisis Management Coordination Body’s figures, 16,774 of the refugees are in northern Greece, 9,097 are hosted in the region of Attica and 2,672 are hosted in facilities of […]


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Greece Urged by EC to Implement the Dublin Regulation

The European Commission (EC) on Monday urged Greece to implement the Dublin Regulation that stipulates that migrants who have traveled to other nations in the bloc via Greece be returned to the country of arrival. The report comes one day after German ...


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GREEK journalist undergoes non-assisted euthanasia

A prominent GREEK journalist, Alexandros Vellios, underwent non-assisted euthanasia in his home in Athens on Sunday evening after a long battle ...


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Letter From a GREEK Activist Fighting the Binary

I spoke about my experience as a non-binary person and the systemic inequalities that people like me face in the GREEK education and national health ...


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Consumption of Staples Drops 5% as Greek Economy Slump Continues

The Greek economy is in ongoing recession with forecasts looking ominous for the sustainability of businesses, consumption and unemployment, a report says. According to a study by the Institute of Small Business of the Hellenic Confederation of ...


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World Travel Awards: European distinctions for 6 Greek firms

Six distinctions were won by an equal number of Greek companies - four hotels, Aegean Airlines and HotelBrain - at the World Travel Awards Europe Gala Ceremony 2016 which was held at Forte Village Resort in Sardinia, Italy last weekend. The event took ...


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Golden Dawn Trial Adjourns After Summer Recess in Greece

The Golden Dawn trial was adjourned on Monday at the Three-Member Felony Appeals Court, after summer recess. Giorgos Roupakias, parliamentarians and members of the extreme nationalist party are charged with the murder of rapper Pavlos Fyssas on September ...


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How David Bowie and I hoaxed the world

[David Bowie]Jo Hale/ Getty Images The awful news of David Bowie’s shocking and untimely death made me take out my journal and search for the first time I met him. It turned out to be on 22 February 1994 at an editorial-board dinner for the art magazine Modern Painters. Here’s what I wrote: “Modern Painters dinner tonight at The Ivy – about a dozen people includingDavid Bowie. I had numerous conversations with Bowie. He doesn’t drink but he smoked a lot, though. He was nice but a bit ill-at-ease. Mind you, he must have been nervous at that gathering – I was – the usual crowd of academics and art critics. It’s a small world and these types are completely caught up in it. Someone told me that Bowie wanted to bring a friend, for protection, but in the end he didn’t. He had a small goatee. Up close, his face looked quite lined, baggy-eyed. He’s painfully thin – he’s almost 50, now. When I think back to university and how often we played those early albums … Funny old world.” This is when you realise journals are worth keeping. Bowie loved the art world. He was an autodidact intellectual, an avid and voracious reader, I later learned, as I came to know him a bit better. Looking back at my journal entry also made me think of Paul Klee – another artist and autodidact intellectual – and the concept that Klee evolved of “loose continuity”. For Klee, loose continuity explained a curious facet of our lives – elucidating those vague patterns, random encounters and tangential connections that are only revealed in hindsight after a long passage of time – a kind of chronological version of six degrees of separation, I suppose. And my journal was accurate: in 1971, in my horrible room in my horrible student flat, I listened and relistened to Bowie’s album Hunky Dory in a mesmerised trance. If people had told me I would get to know him (a little bit) I would have laughed loudly in their faces. Then the loose continuity kicked in when I was asked to join the editorial board of Modern Painters and I found myself sitting beside him – curious but not overwhelmed, evidently – keenly scrutinising this other latest recruit to the masthead. At subsequent ed-board dinners we used to seek each other out because we were the new boys and over the next few years I saw quite a lot of him, a casual acquaintance that grew more close and intriguing when he became my publisher. Bowie had formed a small publishing company called 21 in order to publish art books and, in 1998, 21 published my fake biography Nat Tate: an American Artist 1928-1960 with the jacket blurb written by Bowie. Bowie’s life as an editor, art critic and writer for Modern Painters, artist, collector, publisher (and hoaxer) has inevitably taken second place to his astonishing renown and achievement as musician and global cultural icon but it was very important to him, I believe, and he relished the fact that his occupancy of these other roles had little to do with his global fame and star power. He was a genial and unassuming presence at the regular Modern Painters editorial meetings and when, in one of them, I suggested the idea of creating a fictional artist it was Bowie who said that the concept would work far more efficiently if it were published as a book. And so it came to be. I invented a dead American “artist” I called Nat Tate and wrote his biography. Then the team at Modern Painters and 21 transformed the text into a small, beautifully made and copiously illustrated artist’s monograph. However, there’s absolutely no denying the fact that it was Bowie’s participation in the eventual hoax that gave it media heft. [david bowie]Jo Hale/ Getty Images He published the book, he organised the launch party (on April Fool’s Day, 1998) in Jeff Koons’s studio in Manhattan – Koons was a friend of Bowie – and it was Bowie who read out extracts of the book, absolutely deadpan, to the assembled New York glitterati. The clincher was his statement in the blurb that he was convinced that, “The small oil I picked up on Prince Street, New York, must indeed be one of the lost Third Panel Triptychs. The great sadness of this quiet and moving monograph is that the artist’s most profound dread – that God will make you an artist but only a mediocre artist – did not in retrospect apply to Nat Tate.” Who wouldn’t be swayed by that eloquent testimonial? When Modern Painters was sold in 2001 almost the entire editorial board was summarily removed by the new owner – including me and, mind-bogglingly, David Bowie. The end of the old Modern Painters marked the end of our regular contacts though we continued to communicate as the reverberations of the Nat Tate hoax carried on exponentially and I would routinely send him the foreign editions of the book he had published. The decade of our loose continuity connections ended in New York shortly before Bowie’s 60th birthday. It was at a party in a Tribeca hotel. As I arrived I saw Bowie stepping out of a yellow cab and paying the driver. Greeting him and vaguely surprised to see him in this form of transport I asked him if he ever had any problems moving around the city. Not at all, he said, he happily used cabs and subways. “I just carry one of these,” he said, and held up a Greek newspaper. People think: that’s David Bowie, surely? Then they see the Greek newspaper – no, can’t be, just some Greek guy who looks like him. It was a brilliant idea, I thought. So simple, so efficient – and somehow effortlessly cool and stylish: an act both quotidian and bravura, entirely typical of this fascinating man. So we can add another category to the long list of achievements that Bowie carried off so memorably and with such unique poise and brio. Not just an unforgettable songwriter, performer and musician but also an actor, an artist, a writer, a publisher, a shrewd financial operator and – it turns out (though we shouldn’t be at all surprised) – a master of disguise. NOW WATCH: A dentist reveals the most effective way to whiten your teeth


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Greek Island VAT Hike Not Paying Off

The increase in value-added tax (VAT) on Greek islands has not paid off, according to comparative data examining VAT revenues at 20 island destinations, including the country’s two largest islands Crete and Evia, tabled in parliament last week.


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Labor Day Greek BBQ and Pastry Sale

Labor Day Greek BBQ and Pastry Sale Families line up to purchase pastries at the Greek Orthodox Church Annual Labor Day BBQ and Greek Pastry Sale in Montgomery, Ala., on Monday September 5, 2016. Check out this story on montgomeryadvertiser.com ...


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MKG Mediterranean HIT Report: High revenue for hotels in Greece, Spain and Portugal in July

Hotels in Greece, Spain and Portugal recorded the highest performance in revenue per available room during July, compared with the same month last year. On the contrary, hotels in France and Italy suffered the biggest losses, according to the MKG ...


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Meanwhile, In Greece

Graphics from the UNHCR showing the capacity and occupancy rates at sites for refugees across Greece (top) and the number of people known to have died or gone missing this year, as of August 31, in comparison to 2015 According to the latest figures from ...


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Brendan O'Connor: Our Greek Island getaway for adults and kids

… into it, we discovered that Greece actually has more nice family-friendly … combination of the implosion of Greece, and the bad publicity surrounding … it? Everything. Going Greek Eat like a Greek and opt for their …


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Bloody clashes as gangs of Afghan, Syrian and Iraqi youths fight each other in Greek migrant centre

Seven people were injured in the fighting, which happened at the troubled camp at Moria on Lesbos, where more than 3,000 people live. The brawl started at around midnight in the area where underage refugees are hosted. The Syrians were also reported to ...


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Paralympian from Kissimmee prepares to represent U.S. for 4th time in Rio

Holmes, 43, made her first world team in 2002 at the track and field venue at Disney World's ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex and earned a bronze medal in the long jump at the 2004 Paralympics in Athens, Greece. Holmes added gold in the 100 meters in 2008 ...


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Curtain finally rises on GREEK drama

The extravagant GREEK venue and bar backed by restaurateur Jim Kospetas has been finished since June but has been awaiting council approval to ...


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Howard Gospel Choir To Perform At GREEK Orthodox Church September 10

During the concert, which takes place at the Dormition of the Virgin Mary GREEK Orthodox Church of the Hamptons, children from the center will present ...


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German father of two disappears in Greece, family forced to look for him as police do nothing

A German father of two Sergej Enns vanished without a trace on Rhodes at the end of August. His wife, sister and four friends have been forced to search for him themselves by handing out leaflets media because the Greek police are not doing anything.


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Unhappy With Lagging Reforms, EU Holds Back Greek Bailout

Greece's EU lenders won't release more money from a third bailout because the government hasn't implemented promised reforms.


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Greek championship fixtures

Sept 5 (Gracenote) - Fixtures from the Greek championship matches on Monday Sunday, September 11 AEK v Panetolikos Iraklis v Xanthi Kerkyra v Atromitos Larissa v Veria Levadiakos v PAOK Salonika Olympiakos Piraeus v Asteras Tripolis Panionios v PAS ...


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Greece’s Austerity experiments are the Prologue for radical restructuring in Europe

“Greece Was the Prologue – Austerity experiments in Greece set the stage for a radical restructuring of Europe by elites.” A wise truth that we have been suspected long ago. Economist Elias Ioakimoglou, a adviser to the Institute of Labour (Greek General Confederation of Workers), describes the resultant crisis that […]


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Journalist who shocked Greeks speaking public about “euthanasia” commits suicide

A couple of weeks ago, it could be more than a month, journalist Alexandros Velios appeared on our television screens. He had obviously lost weight. He told Greeks that was was suffering from an aggressive form of cancer and that he was planning to go to a clinic abroad that […]


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The Traditional Hashish Songs of GREECE

Many of us have visited the ancient and beautiful land of GREECE, and most visitors will at some point treat themselves to live performances by ...


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Soccer-Greek season to kick off after referee feud ends

ATHENS, Sept 5 (Reuters) - GREECE'S Super League will finally kick off this weekend after the Hellenic Football Federation (EPO) and the Super ...


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Fans can’t deal with Made In Chelsea star Lucy Watson’s incredible bikini body while she holidays in Greece

And while the reality star relaxes in the sun, her followers are left stunned at her figure. Wearing an animal print bikini, Lucy flaunted her slender figure as she posed by the pool. The halter neck design on the bikini showed off her assets, while her ...


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Brendan O'Connor: How we got the best for adults and kids on the Greek Islands

… into it, we discovered that Greece actually has more nice family-friendly … combination of the implosion of Greece, and the bad publicity surrounding … it? Everything. Going Greek Eat like a Greek and opt for their …


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