How the world sees Greece
Obama, making his last foreign trip as president, said the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation alliance was "absolutely vital" to United States interests and stressed a strong, unified Europe was good for America, after Trump, on the campaign trail ...
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President Barack Obama’s visit to Greece this week was met with anti-globalization protests as he called for debt relief, commented on Donald Trump’s stunning election win and warned of “crude nationalism” and tension in the Mediterranean.
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"To the rest of Europe I will continue to emphasise our view that austerity alone cannot deliver prosperity," he said following a meeting with GREEK PM ...
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(AP) – President Barack Obama will deliver a speech to the GREEK people today as he wraps up his visit to the country. Earlier today, the president ...
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“The current path of globalization demands a course correction,” Mr. Obama said, in a speech in the GREEK capital defending the institution of ...
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The U.S.-traded shares of small-cap stock DryShips spiked a staggering 64 percent in pre-market trade before being halted Wednesday, adding to an ...
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GREEK President Prokopis Pavlopoulos noted the need to defend the welfare state by “raising a wall to intercept the extreme inequalities that directly ...
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The Chancellor has been asked for funds to restore one of Alexander “GREEK” Thomson's greatest Glasgow properties ahead of the bicentenary of the ...
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“Partly because I've heard about the legendary hospitality of the GREEK people your philoxenia, partly because I had to see the Acropolis and the ...
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“With Kostas Grill, we want to give people very authentic, traditional GREEK cuisine,” says Constantine 'Gus' Stavrides, chef and owner at Kostas Grill.
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More than a third, or 37.8 percent, of children aged up to 17 in Greece were at risk of poverty and social exclusion in 2015, compared to 28.7 percent ...
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United States President Barack Obama is on his final international trip before leaving the Oval Office, and, during a speech in Athens, Greece, he gave a shoutout to the Greek Freak. "Greek or American, we're all cheering for Giannis Antetokounmpo," Obama ...
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A global study of 122,000 university students of 1,000 universities in 50 countries, showed that Greek students are lacking in entrepreneurship while also abandoning their dreams of entering the civil service. The research data will be presented at the conference, titled “The Culture of Entrepreneurship in Education,” that is to take place at the University […]
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On the occasion of European Antibiotics Awareness Day on November 18, the Greek Research Company and Primary School Education Health Care are urging citizens to refrain from using antibiotics without a medical prescription. According to medical experts, over-the-counter drugs are used unnecessarily in Greece and are not effective in treating infections caused by germs […]
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Greece supports a fair and viable solution of the Cyprus issue, which constitutes a primary goal for Greeks and Cypriots, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said on Wednesday, after a meeting with Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades in Athens. “Solving the Cyprus issue is a primary national aim not only for the Greeks and the Cypriot people […]
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There's nothing like good home cooking, especially when it comes to Greek food during the holidays. Some of the best Greek cooks in the Upstate will offer a holiday meal with all the fixin's, including delicious Greek pastries, on Thursday at Greenville's ...
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His plan was to start out in Athens, the birthplace of democracy, and claim a place for himself within the political lineage that began in GREECE some ...
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… (Sputnik) – In a letter to Greek Migration Minister Ioannis Mouzalas, seen … outlet, Francken called on the Greek authorities to hasten the process … the flow of undocumented migrants. Greece is on the frontline of …
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Douleutaras, a platform that brings together employers and freelancers in Greece and Eastern Europe, has raised €1 million, according to EMEA startups. Douleutaras, which launched in 2013, is focused on emerging markets where freelancing is not as common ...
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The onset of the economic crisis in Greece has resulted in an increase in deaths due to medical errors, according to a new analysis by researchers at City, University of London, Surrey University and Stanford University that was published in the Lancet ...
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Mr Obama's visit to Athens, Greece, was supposed to be a grand farewell, but descended into chaos when angry rioters took to the street to demand he leave. Youths riding motorbikes, carrying wooden clubs and launching petrol bombs tried to break a police ...
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Barack Obama brings with him reassuring words on his last trip to Greece as US president
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The US president touched on globalisation, Donald Trump, the NATO question and the compassion of the Greek people in his foreign farewell.
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ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Standing in democracy's birthplace, President Barack Obama on Wednesday issued a parting plea to world leaders not to let the fear of globalization tugging at Europe and the U.S. pull them away from their core democratic values. On his last foreign trip as president, Obama has repeatedly tried to draw lessons from Donald Trump's victory in the U.S. presidential election, hoping it can serve as wake-up call in the U.S. and abroad. Obama argued nations must strengthen alliances and expressed his confidence that the U.S. would remain loyal to NATO despite Trump's suggestions to the contrary during the 2016 presidential campaign. Though Obama's trip to Greece was planned before the election results were known, the White House hoped the setting would form a powerful reminder of the basic tenets of democracy: fair elections, a free press and tolerance for ethnic, religious and sexual minorities. Demonstrations were banned in parts of Athens, and road and subway stations were shut down for the first official visit of a sitting U.S. president since Bill Clinton came in 1999. Greece's government hoped Obama would help persuade some of Greece's more reluctant creditors to grant debt relief — a message they hoped he'd stress in Berlin — and also pressure other European countries to share more of the burden of the migrant crisis.
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Speaking in Greece on his final foreign trip, he said: "We have to guard against... tribalism built around an 'us' or a 'them'."
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Greek authorities say they have located and rescued 19 refugees or other migrants in a crippled boat in the north Aegean Sea, about 17 hours after receiving a distress call.
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Eurostat released data ahead of Universal Children’s Day (November 20) showing that one in four children are at risk of poverty or social exclusion in the EU. In 2015, around 25 million children, or 26.9 percent of the EU population from the ages of zero ...
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President Barack Obama, in Greece, urged Europe to resolve lingering issues from its debt crisis, saying leaders should favor growth over austerity, as part of their response to the rising populism in Western countries.
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President Obama will start his final day in Greece with a tour of the Acropolis, the nation's most famous ancient monument, and then deliver a speech to the Greek people as he winds up the first leg of his final foreign tour as president. He is expected to ...
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ATHENS (Reuters) - President Barack Obama extolled the strengths of democracy from its Greek birthplace on Wednesday in a valedictory speech aimed at highlighting the values he sought to respect in office and prodding his Republican successor, Donald Trump, to follow suit.
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ATHENS, GREECE (AP) - President Barack Obama toured GREECE'S most famous ancient monument, the Acropolis citadel, and delivered a speech to ...
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Two Turkish fighter jets and two naval cooperation aircraft entered Athens’ FIR on Tuesday without submitting a flight plan. Greek authorities recorded three violations of air traffic rules which resulted in two violations of national airspace over the northeastern and southeastern Aegean. In all instances, the Turkish aircraft were identified and intercepted by corresponding Greek fighter […]
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On Tuesday Ilias Kasidiaris, a senior member of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party conveyed the party’s xenophobic rhetoric regarding refugees. The speech took place at a rally on the Greek Aegean island of Chios, where there are currently 2,686 refugees living in overcrowded migrant reception centers. There is another Golden Dawn rally scheduled to take […]
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Long before the financial crisis began nearly a decade ago in Greece there was a growing number of historic neo-classic era buildings that were derelict and in desperate need of restoration. Now a community-led outreach from an organization called Communitism is focusing its energy on restoring the historic Metaxourgeio neighborhood of Athens which is lined […]
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The announcement of the visit of U.S. President Barack Obama to Greece was met with mixed reactions, which became even more mixed after the rather unexpected loss of the Democrat candidate, Hillary Clinton who was endorsed by Obama. Clinton would have continued the policies of her predecessor, but the Donald Trump victory changed expectations radically. […]
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U.S. President Barack Obama concluded his visit to Greece on Wednesday, leaving from Athens International Airport for the next leg of his “Farewell” tour to Europe. Earlier in the day, he spoke at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, where he highlighted the need for debt relief so that the country, especially young people can […]
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U.S. President Barack Obama’s visit to Greece raised fresh hopes for debt relief that German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble rushed to quash. He said late on Tuesday that granting Greece its debt relief would not be helping the country, describing such a move as a “disservice.” A German Finance Ministry spokesman confirmed that Schaeuble had […]
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Eurogroup Chief Jeroen Dijsselbloem said that relations between Greece and its creditors were more constructive than ever before. Speaking at a UBS conference in London on Wednesday, he said that the eurozone’s finance ministers will discuss wide-ranging debt relief for Greece during their meeting next month. “The current Greek government seems very committed, and working […]
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Despite the excitement over US President Barack Obama in Greece and his message of support for Debt Relief, just hours before he lands in Berlin, Germans remain cool and even underestimate the influence of the outgoing President. “What is the weight of Obama’s words in Washington and Europe?” German state […]
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US President Barack Obama started his speech with “Yias sas!”, “Kalispera!” and “Filoxenia”(hospitality). He used other Greek words like “foustanella”, “spanakopita” and “ouzo” At the end of his 40-minute long speech he said “Zήτω η Ελλάς” (Long Live, Greece) and had Greeks cheer. President Obama speech without teleprompter or notes […]
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Belgium plans to immediately withdraw the experts that has sent to the Greek islands to assist in registration and identification of refugees. According to the Flemish daily De Standaard, the Secretary of State for Asylum and Migration and member of the far-right N-VA party, Theo Francken, has allegedly decided for […]
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The spread of fascism in the 1920s was significantly aided by the fact that liberals and mainstream conservatives failed to take it seriously. Instead, they accommodated and normalised it. The centre right is doing the same today. Brexit, Trump and the far right ascendant across Europe indicate that talk of a right-wing revolutionary moment is not exaggerated. And the French presidential election could be next on the calendar. The shock felt by status-quo liberals and the anguish experienced on the left are matched only by the satisfaction of those on the extreme right that finally they are winning. The so-called “mature” liberal democracies have long managed to marginalise them. They have long seen themselves as vilified for speaking the common man’s unpalatable truths to out-of-touch elites. Now their champions are taking the political mainstream by storm. And amid the disbelief, heartbreak, and protest, centre-right politicians and commentators seek to normalise and reassure. They dismiss “whingers” and “moaners”. They tell us to “get over it” and brush off talk of a new fascism as unfounded scaremongering. Even among historians, apparently – as the conservative British writer Niall Ferguson condescended to tell Greek economist Yanis Varoufakis – analogies with the 1930s are made only by the easily confused. The circumstances of society, the economy and geopolitics are so different, we are told, that today’s right-wing populism cannot be called a fascistic revival. The mainstream centre right assures us that all will be well in the wake of Trump’s election. It did the same after the UK’s EU referendum, even as hate crime figures skyrocketed. Conservative politicians continue to insist that the real news is about the wonderful opportunities ahead. But that is precisely where the real analogy with Europe in the 1920s and 1930s lies. The circumstances of 2016 are indeed very different to those against which militarised party shock troops fought street battles, and monarchists looked for a strong man to capture popular grievances and save them from Bolshevik revolution. But historical circumstances, like individuals, are always unique and unrepeatable. The point of comparison is not to suggest that we are living though the 1930s redux. It is to recognise the very strong family resemblance in ideas shared by the early 20th century far right and its mimics today. Mussolini in 1922. Wikimedia Commons Discussion of fascism suffers from an excess of definition. That often, ironically, allows far-right groups and their apologists to disavow the label because of some tick-box characteristic which they can be said to lack. But just as we can usefully talk about socialism as a recognisable political tradition without assuming that all socialisms since the 1840s have been cut from one mould, so we can speak of a recognisably fascist style of politics in Europe, the US, Russia and elsewhere. It is united by its espousal of a set of core ideas. The theatrical machismo, the man or woman “of the people” image, and the deliberately provocative, demagogic sloganeering that impatiently sweeps aside rational, evidence-based argument and the rule-bound negotiation of different perspectives – the substance of democracy, in other words – is only the outward form that this style of politics takes. More important are its characteristic memes. Fascism brings a masculinist, xenophobic nationalism that claims to “put the people first” while turning them against one another. That is complemented by anti-cosmopolitanism and anti-intellectualism. It denounces global capitalism, blaming ordinary people’s woes on an alien “plutocracy” in a language that is both implicitly anti-Semitic and explicitly anti-immigrant, while offering no real alternative economics. In the US, that was perfectly exemplified in Trump’s closing campaign ad. Trump’s view of the world. A view of the world is presented that is centred on fears of “national suicide” and civilisational decline, in which whites are demographically overwhelmed by “inferior” peoples, minorities and immigrants. Today, this is the French far-right’s paranoid fantasy of _le grand remplacement_. Geopolitics are defined by latent religio-racial war. In the 1930s, this meant a death struggle with communism. Today, it looks to, and feeds abundantly on, Islamist extremism and Islamic State, abusively identified with “Islam” as a whole. This is a new fascism, or at least near-fascism, and the centre right is dangerously underestimating its potential, exactly as it did 80 years ago. Then, it was conservative anti-communists who believed they could tame and control the extremist fringe. Now, it is mainstream conservatives, facing little electoral challenge from a left in disarray. They fear the drift of their own voters to more muscular, anti-immigrant demagogues on the right. They accordingly espouse the right’s priorities and accommodate its hate speech. They reassure everyone that they have things under control even as the post-Cold War neoliberal order, like the war-damaged bourgeois golden age last century, sinks under them. The risk, at least for the West, is not a new world war, but merely a poisoned public life, a democracy reduced to the tyranny of tiny majorities who find emotional satisfaction in a violent, resentful rhetoric while their narrowly-elected leaders strip away their rights and persecute their neighbours. That might be quite bad enough. [The Conversation] _James McDougall receives funding from the Leverhulme Trust. He is a member of the Labour Party in the UK. _
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… dinner at the residence of Greek President Procopis Pavlopoulos. About … 1,000 people protested in Greece’s second-largest city, Thessaloniki. … among Greek left-wingers, who still resent U.S. support for Greece’ … blamed the U.S. for Greece’s economic woes. The …
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… getting a crash course in Greek mythology and antiquity at the … sprawling Athens. A guide from Greece's Ministry of Culture … as president and heads from Greece to Germany. The president is … of refugees who have crossed Greece's borders on their …
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… , 2016 ATHENS, GREECE—U.S. President Barack Obama toured Greece’s most … is necessary. He also stressed Greece must continue implementing painful reforms … forefront of Greece’s tumultuous political scene by telling Greeks weary from …
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… Commission has found the new Greek support scheme for renewable electricity … distorting competition. In July 2016 Greece notified plans to support electricity … the market price of electricity. Greece has demonstrated that the aid …
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… as president, Obama has chosen Greece, the "cradle of democracy … the streets in protest. - Greece's 'extraordinary compassion … gas and stun grenades. Many Greeks are suspicious of Washington after …
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… center of Athens, Greece, on 15 Nov. 2016. Greek police say about … among Greek left-wingers, who still resent U.S. support for Greece…
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… his presidency, with stops in Greece, Germany and Peru. Obama spoke … the US. He talked about Greece?s assistance to refugees, NATO … i Ellas!, or ?long live Greece.? Credit: YouTube/The White House …
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… visit Greece’s famed Acropolis before giving a speech to the Greek …
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