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Thursday, February 9, 2017

Olive Oil Prices Are Going Through the Roof

In GREECE, last spring's heat waves are poised to cut output by about one-fourth. Floods in Andalusia, Spain's main growing region, ruined its harvest.


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GREECE Remains An Endless Problem As Creditors Continue To Disagree

According to the compulsory report from the IMF on GREECE (Art IV of its statutes), this country's public debt is 180% of GDP. Given that total debt ...


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GREECE'S Creditors Said to Prepare Proposal for Bailout Deal

GREECE'S creditors may present the government of Alexis Tsipras with a framework of measures required for completing the nation's stalled bailout ...


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Turkish seaman sentenced to 1 year in prison for photographing Greek naval base

ATHENS, Feb. 9 (Xinhua) -- A Greek court convicted a Turkish seaman on Thursday to one year suspended prison sentence for photographing a Greek naval base, Greek national news agency AMNA reported. The 51-year-old Turkish crew member of the Turkish flagged ...


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IMF Asks for Lower Tax-Free Threshold and Pensions

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) wants Greece to legislate a lower tax-free threshold and pensions which would be implemented in the “near future” and after the economy has started recovering, its spokesman Gerry Rice said at a regular press briefing on Thursday. Rice reiterated that the fund does not ask for more austerity for Greece […]


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Hellenic Federation of Enterprises: The Impact of a Grexit

Leaving the eurozone sounds about as ludicrous as someone filthy rich coming along and paying off the Greek debt, The Hellenic Federation of Enterprise (SEV) commented and went on to describe the impact this sort of solution would have on the country. According to SEV, the country’s exit from the euro would make it impossible […]


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Relics of St. Helen Coming to Athens, Greece for the First Time

The holy relics of St. Helen and the Holy Cross will be on display at the Church of Agia Varvara (St. Barbara) in Athens from May 14 to June 15, 2017 and thousands of faithfuls from across Greece are expected to attend. It is the first time the relic is leaving its permanent residence of […]


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Is Jeff Sessions Confirmation a Tragedy for American Christianity?

This is a basic human right. It is at the core of of the Christian witness that there is no Greek nor Jew, no slave nor free, no male nor female, for all are one in Christ Jesus. It is a real-life manifestation of the fact that male and female created ...


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Greece must get debt deal soon before risky elections

LONDON, Feb 9 (Reuters) - Greece needs to wrap up its debt negotiations quickly to avoid the risk of having to deal with a new set of European leaders after looming elections, Greece's alternate finance minister George Chouliarakis said on Thursday.


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A New National Security Doctrine for Greece?

By Ambassador (ret.) Alexandros P. Mallias The tragedy of the “refugee game” in the Aegean Archipelago and the repeated daily Turkish provocations compel Greece to complete and integrate its National... The post A New National Security Doctrine for Greece? appeared first on The National Herald.


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Brexit & Beyond: MPs Pave Way for Brexit, Greece Debt Crisis in Focus, Trump and Brexit Threats to FinReg

Brexit & Beyond: Europe in Flux is The Wall Street Journal’s round-up of news and analysis of how Brexit will affect global business, economies and finance. You can sign up here. MUST READS British Conservative MP Jackie Doyle-Price (L) reads out the ...


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Red Cross Gives Prepaid Cards To GREEK Refugees

In an effort to help refugees in Greece, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) has selected Prepaid Financial ...


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Greece hopeful of imminent EU debt deal despite German warning

Germany’s finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble tells Athens it can cut its £280bn debt only by leaving the single currency The Greek government has expressed hope of an imminent deal with its EU creditors, despite a warning from the German finance minister, Wolfgang Schäuble, that the country could cut its debts only by leaving the single currency. Athens is in a familiar stand-off with the German finance ministry as it seeks easier repayment terms on its €330bn (£280bn) debt pile, which the International Monetary Fund has described as unsustainable and explosive. Continue reading...


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GREEK Cyprus urged to take 'realistic steps' for deal

GREEK Cyprus needs to take more realistic and reasonable steps during negotiations to reach a settlement on the divided Mediterranean island, ...


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GREEK PM visits Kiev with Russia message

On a visit to Ukraine Thursday, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras called for all sides to implement the Minsk Protocol and insisted that Greece has no ...


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Greece Expects Rise in Tourists from Israel in 2017

Pre-bookings to Greece from the Israeli market so far are showing a double-digit increase compared with 2016, according to the Israel Association of Travel Agencies & Consultants (ITTAA). During a meeting with Tourism Minister Elena Kountoura on the ...


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Campus Ministry hosts interfaith trip

Creighton’s Campus Ministry hosted its second interfaith field trip to a Greek Orthodox Church on Saturday. Campus Ministry began formulating these field trips after a group of students from various faiths attended the Parliament of the World’s ...


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Greek carnival party

The Greek Orthodox Community of Milton Keynes invites you to the fundraising Greek Carnival Party on Sunday 26th February 2017 at 2pm, after our Sunday Church service. Food, meze, dancing with live music, cash bar and raffle. A party for all ages.


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Traders Are Suddenly Freaking Out About Greece Again

Greece’s seemingly never ending debt saga has reared its head again. The nation, which has already received several enormous bailouts since 2009, is under renewed scrutiny as the rest of Europe and the International Monetary Fund grapple over whether or ...


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Tsipras: Greece promotes peace stability and security in Ukraine

  The visit of the Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to Ukraine, highlights, in the context of an active, multidimensional foreign policy, the particular importance that Greece attaches to the wider geographical region, including the Black Sea neighbourhood by promoting peace, regional stability, security and development.  Tsipras also met on Thursday with Ukrainian President Petro […]


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The “tsolias” graffiti by GREEK artists vandalized at Cologne

Last summer two GREEK artists created a graffiti in Cologne that was misunderstood. In a neighborhood inhabited by immigrants from Turkey, Italians ...


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Germany: Coalition Government Divided Over GREEK Debt Issue

Germany's coalition government is facing internal divisions over the GREEK debt issue, the Rheinische Post and Die Zeit reported Feb. 9.


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Turkey raps Europe over ending easy GREEK island visas

Under the program, intended to boost tourism revenues, Turkish tourists making short visits to certain Aegean GREEK islands could be issued a visa at ...


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Greek crisis descends into blame game

Greece is under mounting pressure to embark on a new wave of economic reforms, as its international creditors demand extra efforts to drag the country out of its latest crisis. At the same time Germany is facing fresh demands from the International ...


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Kiev’s beautiful Orthodox museum of St. Sophia in Kiev (photos)

Greek PM Alexis Tsipras visits museum


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Economist: Grexit Scenario All Too Real

Five years after the emergence of the Grexit scenario, the fear of Greece leaving the euro zone is all too real, Economist magazine says. The sustainability of the Greek debt does not guarantee that Greece will stay in the monetary union, says the British magazine’s economist Simon Baptist in his editorial, published on Wednesday. Baptist […]


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Refugees on Chios Steal Boat and Attempt Return to Turkey

Two refugees who had applied for asylum in Greece two months ago and are awaiting their pending requests to either be approved or denied, stole a boat and attempted to escape from Chios and return to Turkey. A 32 year-old Syrian and a 28 year-old man from Egypt stole the boat from St. Hermione port early on Wednesday and […]


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Greek bonds sell off sharply as EU-IMF rift deepens

Greek debt sold off sharply on Thursday amid fears the country’s bailout lenders will not be able to bridge their differences in time to lend Athens the €7bn it needs to avoid bankruptcy. The International Monetary Fund has refused to sign on to the ...


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Germany's Schaeuble rules out debt relief for Greece

… unsustainable" debts in future. Greece has gone through years of … may withhold further financing for Greece -- putting an 86-billion-euro ($92 … " about Greek debt. "We believe that Greece's debt …


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New flight route between Israel and Greece

… a new route from Greece to Israel. The Greek carrier will launch …


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Syrian Arab Republic: Middle East EU migration: Scenarios Possible developments in migration via Turkey and Greece over the next 6 months

… asylum-seekers in Greece falls The overall number of asylum-seekers in Greece reduces … asylum-seekers from Greece who arrived before March 2016; 2) Greece grants asylum … new arrivals to Greece. The scale of need in Greece falls substantially …


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It's Not Greece The Eurozone Needs To Worry About, It's Italy Defaulting That Would Be The Problem

Yes, Greece is once again stuck in the mire of wondering how it can possibly pay its debts. There’re repayments that have to made this summer and Greece just doesn’t have the cash–thus it’s dependent upon further loans from the eurozone in order to ...


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Greece Pressured to Improve Migrants’ Living Conditions

ATHENS — Human rights groups stepped up their warnings on Thursday about the living conditions for migrants in Greece after three people died during a recent cold snap on the Aegean island of Lesbos, and as dozens of asylum seekers near Athens threatened ...


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“Huge Sacrifices” by Greeks, But Country Needs Reforms, Lagarde Says

IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde said Greece is making progress on economic reforms but needs to do more. The post “Huge Sacrifices” by Greeks, But Country Needs Reforms, Lagarde Says appeared first on The National Herald.


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Bob Costas will no longer host NBC’s Olympics coverage

NEW YORK. Greek-American sportscaster, on the air for NBC Sports television since the early 1980s and prime-time host of twelve Olympic Games, from 1992 until 2016, will no longer anchor... The post Bob Costas will no longer host NBC’s Olympics coverage appeared first on The National Herald.


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GREECE supports Ukraine in process of European integration, firmly insists on full implementation of ...

President Petro Poroshenko has started a meeting in vis-a-vis format with Prime Minister of GREECE Alexis Tsipras who is on a working visit to Ukraine.


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Is Your TV Watching YOU? ; Capitalist GREECE and Socialist Venezuela Both Failing ; Switzerland ...

In the News: Marine Le Pen officially announced her run for French Presidency while attacking globalization and the dangers of immigration. Le Pen is ...


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Journalist convicted of smuggling for helping Syrian boy migrate to Sweden

Fredrik Önnevall met teenager in Greece while filming documentary about the migration crisis A Swedish court has found a TV journalist guilty of smuggling for helping a Syrian boy migrate to the country and given him a suspended sentence. In the spring of 2014, Fredrik Önnevall was filming a documentary about the response of European nationalist parties to the migration crisis when he met the 15-year-old boy in Greece. Continue reading...


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I work with child refugees in Calais. Theresa May’s deception is a cruel act

The Dubs children abandoned by Britain now sleep under bushes, at the mercy of people smugglers and riot police. This is how we care for their best interests Call it shameful, call it cruel. The UK now has an effective refugee ban of its very own, targeting the most vulnerable of the vulnerable: unaccompanied children. In the House of Lords yesterday, the minister for immigration, Robert Goodwill, announced the abandonment of the Dubs amendment to the Immigration Act. This was passed last May, after being designed by the peer and refugee Alf Dubs, who fled Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia as a child, one of thousands rescued in the Kindertransport effort. Lord Dubs and his supporters had suggested the UK could potentially help 3,000 of the most vulnerable children in Europe - there are estimated to be 90,000 unaccompanied migrant children across the continent as a whole, including thousands who wait in the camps of Greece and Italy, described by Unicef as “alone and extremely vulnerable”. In itself, 3,000 was a modest and achievable number. But now, it emerges, we will be taking only 350 – including 200 who have already come over from the refugee camp in Calais – and we will then slam shut the door. Continue reading...


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Manhattan District Attorney Returns Ancient Sarcophagus to Greek Consulate

Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. and assistant DA Matthew Bogdanos, on Friday will deliver to Consul General of Greece in New York Dr. Constantine Koutras, an ancient marble sarcophagus illegally exported from Greece. According to a National ...


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Greek inventor water splitting invention provides unlimited power

The problem is not splitting the water into hydrogen and oxygen, or to make a water gas (HHO). The problem is it takes more energy to produce the hydrogen from water than can be obtained from consuming it through combustion or a fuel cell. The latest claim ...


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Greek Fish Tacos

The fact that my kids are highly into fish tacos is a source of great pleasure (once the surprise wore off). They are also highly into Greek salads, so here is the marriage of two beloved foods. 1. Combine the olive oil, lemon juice, garlic, thyme ...


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Education Minister: Greek University Entrance Exam System Will Change in Three Years

The current system of university entrance exams, which he called “educationally unacceptable,” will be changed within three years, Greek Education Minister Constantinos Gavroglou announced in Parliament on Thursday. The minister was addressing the ...


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Top-selling Greek daily Ta Nea suspends publication

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece's long-dominant Lambrakis Press has suspended publication of top-selling daily Ta Nea due to acute financial problems which prevented the purchase of newsprint.


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Greek Life takes home record-breaking number of awards at AFLV Conference

All three of Ball State’s Greek Life councils attended the Association of Fraternal Leadership and Values conference Feb. 2-4 and took home enough awards to make school history. AFLV Central is the largest undergraduate conference for fraternity and ...


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Thomas Cook Travel Agency Sees 40% Rise in Bookings to Greece

The Thomas Cook travel agency enjoyed a 40% rise in bookings to Greece in the last quarter, mostly attributed to holidaymakers’ fear of terrorist acts in Turkey and other countries that face similar threats. According to a Daily Mail online report, the ...


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IMF sticks by ‘explosive’ Greek debt analysis amid mounting EU criticism

Fund maintains Greece’s borrowings could eventually climb to 275% of GDP


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Greek Unemployment 23% in November

The Greek unemployment rate eased to 23 pct of the workforce in November 2016, from 24.5 pct in November 2015, but unchanged compared with October 2016, Hellenic Statistical Authority said on Thursday. The statistics service, in a report, said that the ...


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The world's most decadent apocalyptic community will have an insane golf course

[Trident Lakes Condo Rendering]Trident Lakes When it opens in 2018, Trident Lakes will be one of the most unique gated communities in America. The plans include a spa, a gun range, and 532 fortified subterranean condos built to withstand the apocalypse. Trident Lakes is one of a growing number of luxury developments in the US where "doomsday preppers" can live out Armageddon in the event of a catastrophic event. A spokesperson describes the $300 million development as a "five-star playground with DEFCON 1 preparedness." In early February, the developers unveiled plans for an extravagant, 18-hole golf course on the Dallas, Texas, property. The course, which will sprawl across the development's 700 acres and three 15-acre lagoons, will be named "Course of The Gods." The holes will borrow names from Greek mythology, including Zeus, Poseidon, Hermes, and Nesoi, according to a company statement. "Our board of directors and investors share an ultimate vision of security. Turns out that, through business conversations and social gatherings, they realized a lot of them also share a love for Greek mythology and ornate architecture," Jim O'Connor, CEO of Trident Lakes Corporation, told Business Insider in an email. It is certainly an interesting choice of words to give a golf course — where one-percenters play as the world comes to an end — the name "Course of The Gods." Decorated architect Dave Edsal of DE Golf Design will take the helm on the project. [trident lakes doomsday shelter]YouTube/Trident Lakes Residents at Trident Lake will also enjoy running trails, an equestrian center, restaurants, shops, and a lavish fountain that could create a Guinness World Record for height. The condos, which will range in size from 900 to 4,500 square feet, are made from reinforced steel. Off-the-grid systems will be put in place to supply food, water, and electricity. A spokesperson estimates the cost of a condo will pass the mid-six figures. The developers are currently accepting applications, though the first round of enrollment is by invitation only. Doomsday preppers can join the waitlist online now. NOW WATCH: These doomsday shelters for the 1% make up the largest private bunker community on earth


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Grexit Fears Loom As Greek Yield Curve Crushed To Brexit Extremes

Slowly but surely the "whatever-it-takes"-protected markets are waking up to the latest round of Grexit fear as Troika disagreements are once again pitting ongoing greater depression economics against drachmatization for the desperate Greeks. The Greek ...


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