Šefic believes this is important both from the perspective of helping GREECE and Italy as the most affected states as well as supporting the system that ...
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How the world sees Greece
Wednesday, April 26, 2017
State secretary assures GREECE support in addressing migration
AEK Advances to Greek Cup Final
AEK Athens clinched a place in the Greek Cup final on Wednesday despite losing 1-0 to Olympiacos in the second leg of their semi-final clash at the Olympic Stadium, going through on away goals after the tie ended with a 2-2 aggregate scoreline. AEK was a ...
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The Greek crisis continues on its road to nowhere
Yesterday on my way to looking at the UK Public Finances I pointed out that Greece had a national debt to GDP ratio of 179% at the end of 2016. This came with some cheerleading from the Institutions ( they used to be called the Troika until the name became ...
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Cyprus activists protest Turkey’s planned nuclear plant
Greek and Turkish Cypriot activists on Wednesday formed a human chain across Cyprus’ ethnic divide to protest Turkey’s planned nuclear power station, which they say poses real dangers to the nearby east Mediterranean island.
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Historical society to hold photo scanning, preservation event
GREECE Historical Society will host a free photo scanning and preservation event to celebrate Mother's Day from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. May 13 at GREECE ...
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UNICEF Refugee and Migrant Crisis in Europe: Regional Humanitarian Situation Report #22, 18 ...
During the same period of time, close to 25,000 children have claimed asylum in Europe, while around 24,600 remain stranded in GREECE and the ...
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IOBE: Greek Economy to Grow Only 1.5% This Year
The latest forecast from IOBE think tank estimates that Greece’s economy will only grow by up to 1.5% this year, lower than initially expected due to the country’s delayed bailout review. Initial projections by IOBE were at 1.5 to 1.8 percent growth this year in its previous estimate in January as compared to the 2.7 […]
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'Medea' brings GREEK tragedy to utep
“It's a GREEK tragedy written almost 3,000 years ago, and most people think that sounds boring, but it's not,” director Jay Stratton said. “It is exciting, it is ...
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Public Power Company PPC hires an Artistic Director for its choir… #NoWords
Greece’s Public Power Company hired an artistic director for its choir. It sounds like a bad musical the moment the PPC announced to retrieve retrospectively €735 million euros from electricity consumers as outstanding debt have reached 2.2 billion euros. In a job opening that run from March 24 to April 10, 2017 the PPC stated … The post Public Power Company PPC hires an Artistic Director for its choir… #NoWords appeared first on Keep Talking Greece.
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Exarhos Sourligas’ Popular Lukumades in West Melbourne
WEST MELBOURNE, Australia – When you walk through the orange doors of the tiny Lukumades Greek-doughnut shop opposite Queen Victoria Market, you’ll smell deep-fried dough, […] The post Exarhos Sourligas’ Popular Lukumades in West Melbourne appeared first on The National Herald.
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Memorial Plaque in Lithgow Commorating Soldiers Who Defended Greece
LITHGOW, Australia – A marble plaque commemorating the Australian and New Zealand soldiers who defended Greece and Macedonia during both World Wars was established in […] The post Memorial Plaque in Lithgow Commorating Soldiers Who Defended Greece appeared first on The National Herald.
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Female genital mutilation in Greece!
A barbaric custom among refugees and illegal immigrants has reached Greece
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Greece has exceeded its targets, says European Commission VP Dombrovskis
Dombrovskis noted that this development has been confirmed by Eurostat
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Chinese Cosco's interest in GREEK shipyards of Elefsina and Syros
The key to any successful deal for the Neorion yard is a three-part agreement between the main creditor of the business, Alpha Bank, the GREEK state ...
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North GREECE Fire Department honors members
This year's dinner marked the 95th year that NGFD has provided emergency and nonemergency services to its residents. State Sen. Joseph Robach ...
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German court upholds Greek teacher's case against pay cut
A German federal court has upheld a complaint by a teacher at a Greek school in Germany against a pay cut that the Greek government imposed at the height of the country's financial crisis. The teacher, a Greek citizen, works at a Greek government-run ...
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Lana furious at Rusev during Greek Orthodox christening in Bulgaria on Total Divas
On tonight’s Total Divas, WWE superstar Lana is left fuming when Rusev fails to mention the finer details of the intricacies of a Greek Orthodox christening tradition — and the episode almost becomes a Greek tragedy. A second and more traditional ...
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A new community centre for refugees and migrants in Greece
Mikri Poli, a new community centre for refugees and migrants opens its doors today in Ioannina. The space, located in the village of Platanos, will offer a range of free educational, cultural and recreational activities for adults and children from all ...
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The Battle of the GREEKS Begins with GREEK Sing 2017
On Sunday, April 23 the Performance Center was packed by the GREEK life organizations here at California University of Pennsylvania all competing in ...
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GREECE Eurovision 2017: Demy – This Is Love
SINGER and actress Demy is GREECE'S Eurovision 2017 entry, and will perform her song This Is Love at the contest's first semi-final. By Sebastian ...
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GREECE still ranks 2nd to last in press freedom among EU countries
Despite rising one place compared to last year, media freedom in GREECE remains problematic according to the organization, which cited last year's ...
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Grilled Boneless Chicken Thighs in Turmeric Greek Yogurt Marinade
These Grilled Boneless Chicken Thighs in Turmeric Greek Yogurt Marinade are definitely going to be happening again at our house soon! The Turmeric Greek yogurt marinade features not only fresh turmeric but also fresh ginger, garlic and lemon. The result ...
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Oceanos Hotels Group Greece expands into Arabian market
OCEANOS HOTELS GROUP GREECE is represented at ARABIAN TRAVEL MARKET, the Arab World's leading tourism fair held in DUBAI from April 24th to April 27th 2017, through "Promo Aegean Islands" and the MTC Group. The Chania based chain of hotels and luxury ...
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Pavlopoulos: The Cyprus Issue Is Not a National But an International and European Problem
“Whatever solution to the Cyprus problem must be compatible with the European law,” the President of the Hellenic Republic Prokopios Pavlopoulos said on Wednesday addressing the plenary session of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg. Greece and Cyprus are ready to contribute to the solution of the problem. For us it is an open plague […]
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Report Says Inhumane Conditions Must be Improved at ‘Hotspots’ in Greece, Italy
According to a new report from the European Court of Auditors, the EU’s “hotspots” for irregular migrants in Greece and Italy has assisted in improving the registration process significantly, but more needs to be done since thousands of migrants are still bottlenecked on Greek islands after arriving. The auditors say that migrant camps must be […]
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The High Costs of US Warmongering Against North Korea
[n a photo released by the U.S. Navy, the aircraft carrier Carl Vinson in the Indian Ocean, April 15, 2017. President Donald Trump had claimed a carrier was heading toward the Korean Peninsula to deter Pyongyang, but photos later showed it going in the opposite direction. (Photo: Mass Communication Specialist Third Class Matt Brown / U.S. Navy, via The New York Times)]In a photo released by the US Navy, the aircraft carrier _USS Carl Vinson_ in the Indian Ocean, April 15, 2017. President Donald Trump had claimed a carrier was heading toward the Korean Peninsula to deter Pyongyang, but photos later showed it going in the opposite direction. (Photo: Mass Communication Specialist Third Class Matt Brown / US Navy, via The New York Times) In line with Vice President Pence's announcement that the "era of strategic patience is over," the Trump administration has deployed a nuclear-powered, guided-missile submarine to the Korean peninsula, heightening tensions in the region. But those familiar with US history question whether amped-up tensions with North Korea are mainly being used as a justification to increase the US military budget. [n a photo released by the U.S. Navy, the aircraft carrier Carl Vinson in the Indian Ocean, April 15, 2017. President Donald Trump had claimed a carrier was heading toward the Korean Peninsula to deter Pyongyang, but photos later showed it going in the opposite direction. (Photo: Mass Communication Specialist Third Class Matt Brown / U.S. Navy, via The New York Times)]In a photo released by the US Navy, the aircraft carrier _USS Carl Vinson_ in the Indian Ocean, April 15, 2017. President Donald Trump had claimed a carrier was heading toward the Korean Peninsula to deter Pyongyang, but photos later showed it going in the opposite direction. (Photo: Mass Communication Specialist Third Class Matt Brown / US Navy, via The New York Times) _This article only exists thanks to Truthout readers. Support the publication of more stories like it! Click here to make a tax-deductible donation._ Today, the White House is convening a rare briefing for 100 senators on North Korea with Secretary of Defense James Mattis, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats and General Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Meanwhile, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is planning to chair a special meeting at the UN Security Council on North Korea this Friday. Given the Trump administration's wide-ranging Korea policy spanning from "maximum pressure" to "engagement," the administration could announce anything from "new" intelligence justifying military action to calling for more sanctions, including placing North Korea back on the US list of state sponsors of terrorism. What has most people on edge and in a state of alarm is that these briefings take place amid dangerous tensions and brinkmanship on the Korean peninsula. North Korea is conducting live fire drills off its east coast, and some speculate that it may test its sixth nuclear weapon timed with the 85th anniversary of the Korean People's Army. Meanwhile, Washington has deployed the USS Michigan, a Trident submarine and the most destructive nuclear weapon in the arsenal. In short, tensions on the Korean peninsula have reached a boiling point, with many fearing Trump will use military force on North Korea. The two forces reining in the Trump administration are China and South Korea. In an editorial, the Global Times warned, "The game of chicken between Washington and Pyongyang has come to a breaking point. If North Korea carries out a sixth nuclear test as expected, it is more likely than ever that the situation will cross the point of no return." It called on Pyongyang to "take a small step back" to make the conflict easier to solve, which doesn't "mean being a coward, but being courageous to face the challenge in a different way." As the ones who would be in the direct line of North Korea's fire, South Koreans were not pleased. "The Security of South Korea is as important as that of the US," reminded Moon Jae-in, the leading South Korean presidential candidate. Even Hong Joon-pyo, the conservative presidential candidate from impeached President Park Geun-hye's party, warned, "If that was a lie, then during Trump's term, South Korea will not trust whatever Trump says." Given that their country would be in the direct line of North Korean fire, South Koreans, too, are calling for restraint. "There is no South Korean leader who thinks the first strike by the US is okay," said Suh Choo-suk, a Senior Research Fellow at the Korea Institute for Defense Analyses. On April 18, as millions of Americans filed their taxes, MSNBC news host Rachel Maddow covered a Defense News story that the USS Carl Vinson, the nuclear aircraft carrier that the Trump administration allegedly rerouted from Australia to the Korean Peninsula, was in fact "3,000 miles away, steaming south, in the opposite direction." By that time, however, the alleged rerouting of the flotilla had already stoked fears across East Asia that the US was considering a preemptive military strike if North Korea conducted a nuclear test on the 105th birth anniversary of its founder Kim Il Sung. Whether intended to mislead North Korea into believing the US was preparing for a first strike or the result of a serious internal communications blunder, the incident highlighted how the Trump administration is aggressively pursuing a showdown with North Korea. Such a conflict would threaten not only 22 million North Koreans and the 44 million South Koreans, but could also engulf the United States, Japan, China and Russia in a nuclear war. In its first 100 days, the Trump administration has deployed Secretary of Defense General Mattis, Secretary of State Tillerson, and now Vice President Pence to South Korea and Japan. Speaking at the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), Pence stated that "the era of strategic patience is over" and threatened that "if China is unable to deal with North Korea, the United States and our allies will." Yet, by all indications, Trump is continuing strategic patience, which includes the heavy use of sanctions to further isolate the North Korean regime and aggressive military posturing, including US-Republic of Korea military exercises rehearsing the invasion and "decapitation" of North Korea's political leadership. In its spring war games, the Trump administration turned it up a few notches by deploying the team of US Navy SEALS that killed Osama bin Laden. Contrary to Trump's campaign rhetoric that he "would be very, very cautious" and not be a "happy trigger" compared to Hillary Clinton, the Trump administration has mercilessly and without coherence dropped massive US bombs throughout the Middle East. With regards to Korea, the Trump administration has said that all options are on the table, including military action. Trump announced that the US launched 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles on Syria over dinner with President Xi Jinping at Mar-a-Lago in a clear message to China that it must either rein in North Korea, or the United States will take unilateral action. It was soon after that Donald Trump told the world that the US was "sending an armada, very powerful" toward North Korea, even though it wasn't. A LONG HISTORY OF US MILITARY BRUTALITY AGAINST KOREA But North Koreans don't need to look at Syria or Afghanistan, or at Libya or Iraq, to understand the sheer brutality of US military power. They have their own history of surviving indiscriminate US bombing during the Korean War that destroyed 80 percent of North Korean cities and claimed one in four relatives. More bombs were dropped on Korea than on all of Asia and the Pacific islands during World War II. According to the memoir _Soldier_ by Anthony Herbert, the most decorated veteran of the Korean War, in May 1951, one year into the war, General MacArthur offered this testimony before Congress: > The war in Korea has already almost destroyed that nation of > 20,000,000 people. I have never seen such devastation. I have seen, > I guess, as much blood and disaster as any living man, and it just > curdled my stomach.... After I looked at that wreckage and those > thousands of women and children and everything, I vomited.... If you > go on indefinitely, you are perpetuating a slaughter such as I have > never heard of in the history of mankind. Curtis LeMay, who took over for MacArthur, later wrote, "We burned down just about every city in North Korea and South Korea both ... we killed off over a million civilian Koreans and drove several million more from their homes." While all parties to the Korean War, including the North Korean People's Army, committed heinous acts, Americans must remember this tragic history because it very much underlies the North Korean mindset and their enormous will to survive, underscoring how counterproductive "strategic patience" is. According to Korea expert John DeLury, > Thinking that it's a matter of making North Korea hurt enough, shows > a fundamental misunderstanding of a key attribute of the [Democratic > People's Republic of Korea] state and society which has an > extraordinary capacity to absorb pain. They have maybe suffered more > than anyone since 1945. They're like a boxer, they'll never beat you > but you can never knock them down. No matter how hard you hit them, > they get back up. And the sober lesson that the Obama, Bush and Clinton administrations ultimately arrived at was that there was no military option. In 1994, President Bill Clinton considered a preemptive strike on North Korea's Yongbyon nuclear reactor, but the Pentagon concluded that even limited action would claim a million lives in the first 24 hours -- and this was well before Pyongyang possessed nuclear weapons. President Obama, too, considered surgical strikes, but as David Sanger reported in the New York Times, obtaining such timely intelligence was nearly impossible and "the risks of missing were tremendous, including renewed war on the Korean peninsula." Any military action by Washington will undoubtedly trigger a counter-reaction from Pyongyang that could instantly kill a third of the South Korean population. To most Americans, Korea is a problem "over there." It's not. The situation on the Korean Peninsula has for 70 years been dictated by US foreign policy. In 1945, at the end of WWII, the United States, along with the Soviets -- as victors over Japan in the Pacific Theater -- divided the Korean peninsula. Two young officers in the State Department literally tore a page out of the National Geographic and drew a line across the 38th parallel, taking Seoul and giving Pyongyang to the Soviets. The Korean people, who were preparing for their liberation from 35 years of Japanese colonial rule, had organized one of the most vibrant grassroots democratic people's committees in history. Instead of liberation, they got two military occupations and became the front line of the Cold War. The division of Korea led in 1948 to the creation to two separate states: the Republic of Korea in the south, and the Democratic People's Republic in the north, which ultimately led to the 1950-53 Korean War. The atrocious war was temporarily halted on July 27, 1953, when US Army Lieutenant General William Harrison, representing the UN Command, and North Korean General Nam Il, representing the Korean People's Army and the Chinese People's Volunteers, signed the Armistice Agreement. Article IV, paragraph 60, called for the official end of the Korean War by replacing the Armistice with a peace treaty. HOPES FOR DIPLOMACY AND PEACEBUILDING Today, the US still has wartime operational control over South Korea and jurisdiction over half the DMZ. There are 28,500 US troops across South Korea, and it's the US missile defense system, THAAD, which has prompted massive protests across South Korea and is straining Seoul's relations with Beijing. The rapid deployment of THAAD -- ahead of schedule and pushed during the political vacuum in South Korea -- is just the latest example of US intrusion into Korean affairs to further its own geopolitical interests. But just as the security of Korean peoples is tied to US policy, Korea has very much influenced human security in the United States. Fifty years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. presciently noted, "A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death." In fact, Korea has been the justification for US military expansion in the Asia Pacific, and inaugurated the military-industrial complex and massive spending that has built the greatest war-making force in world history. According to University of Chicago historian Bruce Cumings, "It was the Korean War, not Greece or Turkey, or the Marshall Plan or Vietnam that inaugurated big defense budgets and the national security state that transformed a limited containment doctrine into a global crusade that ignited McCarthyism just as it seemed to fizzle, and thereby gave the Cold War its long run." Sadly, the conflict with North Korea is being used as further justification to increase the US military budget. In February, President Trump requested an additional $54 billion for the military -- a 10 percent increase -- while making drastic cuts to social welfare programs. This is on top of the already bloated $598 billion US military budget, which is the world's largest and more than the next seven highest-spending countries combined. "The Pentagon spends an estimated $10 billion a year on overseas bases," according to the Los Angeles Times. "More than 70% of the total is spent in Japan, Germany and South Korea, where most US troops abroad are permanently stationed." The good news is that on May 9, South Korea will be holding a snap presidential election after the impeachment and imprisonment of its corrupt politician Park Geun-hye, whose hardline policy against North Korea strained inter-Korean relations. The leading candidate, Moon Jae-in, has pledged to improve relations with Pyongyang, noting that diplomatic relations are the best bet to ensure South Koreans' security. As South Koreans work to improve peace on the Korean Peninsula, our job here in the United States is to strengthen the connection between the struggles for democracy, justice and liberation throughout the Asia Pacific, including South Korea, Okinawa and the Philippines, which are very much tied to our struggle for a just world built on food, land, water, health care and education.
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Greeks are furious as Public Power Company increases charges on electricity bills
As if we did not have enough financial burdens, Greek Public Power Company increases charges on electricity bills and demands the payment of additional 735 million euros by millions of electricity consumers. “It is a small, temporary contribution,” Greek PPC said in a statement responding to the outcry. Greeks know very well that there is … The post Greeks are furious as Public Power Company increases charges on electricity bills appeared first on Keep Talking Greece.
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Four Panathinaikos players face punishment after defying boss decision to return to Athens per bus
Panathinaikos punished their players for a poor performance in the Euroleague playoffs by forcing them to return by coach bus to Athens from Istanbul Wednesday, a 12-hour ride, instead of a scheduled flight. Four players defied the decision and caught a plane to Greek capital. Now they will face a punishment. The Greek club lost … The post Four Panathinaikos players face punishment after defying boss decision to return to Athens per bus appeared first on Keep Talking Greece.
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Albert Henrichs, professor of Greek literature, dies at 74
… containing excerpts from a lurid Greek novel, Phoinikika (“Phoenician Saga”), by … 20th century, study of classical Greek religion had focused on ritual … god, especially his role in Greek tragedy and his on-going reception …
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Whitlock talks Campus Climate, GREEK Life, diversity growth
GREEK Life has risen to a prominent position at A-State. Approximately 41 percent of students enrolled at the university are affiliated with a GREEK ...
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Athens Medical Group's CEO: Significant prospects for medical tourism in GREECE
Medical tourism in GREECE has significant prospects for further development, Athens Medical Group's CEO, Dr. Vassilis Apostolopoulos, said in an ...
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European Commission VP: GREECE has Exceeded Its Targets
GREECE has exceeded its primary surplus targets so we have a basis for the conclusion of the review of the Greek programme, said European ...
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GREECE threatens to scrap bailout
Alexis Tsipras said that without further help he would scrap the current bailout, putting GREECE'S membership of the single currency at risk and ...
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Hank Hanegraaff Goes Greek Orthodox
I imagine I was like many of my western missionary colleagues when it came to the Orthodox Church in those early days after the break up of the Soviet Union—namely, naïve. The little thought I had given to Eastern Christianity had found easy (read ...
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PM Tsipras Insults Greek People’s Intelligence
“When the going gets tough, politicians start lying” would be the appropriate saying for Greek politicians. And that’s exactly what Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is doing since he took his seat at the Maximos Mansion. Because, truly, things are tough ...
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College Year in Athens brings foreign students in Greece for 55 years
Who would have thought that a 15-year-old girl who crossed the Aegean as a refugee in a small boat 95 years ago would become one of Greece’s leading cultural and educational ambassadors? Ismene Phylactopoulou, who came to Athens with her family from ...
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#UniteForParkinsons and its early detection
April is Parkinson’s Awareness Month. On this occasion, the EU-funded i-PROGNOSIS project released a mobile app in Germany, Greece and the UK. By using the app you can help creating an algorithm for early detection of Parkinson's Disease.
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Turkish Minister Challenges Sovereignty of Greek Island
Turkish Minister for European Union Affairs Omer Celik on Tuesday challenged Greece’s sovereign territories saying that Agathonisi island belongs to Turkey. According to Turkish newspaper Milliyet, Celik said that Greek Defense Minister Panos Kammenos is ...
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Germany Expects Quick Deal with Greece on Debt
Germany expects Greece's international creditors to agree soon to unlock billions of euros in crucial bailout loans, a senior finance ministry official said. Jens Spahn, state secretary at the finance ministry in Berlin, said he expected creditors ...
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3 Simple GREEK recipes
3 Simple GREEK recipes. April 26, 2017 11:08 AM By Marge Perry Special to Newsday. + -. Shrimp, potatoes and broccoli are roasted on a single sheet ...
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EU expects bailout cash for GREECE soon
The European Union's head office says GREECE is delivering on its fiscal targets and that an agreement to hand more bailout cash to Athens could ...
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Emirates: New offers for passengers to and from GREECE
Emirates announced new special offers for passengers from GREECE that choose their flights to New York and Dubai. The special discounts give the ...
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Greece will legislate reforms but implementation hinges on debt relief: PM
Greek PM Tsipras waits to welcome British Foreign Secretary Johnson at his office in the Maximos Mansion in Athens Thomson Reuters ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece will legislate additional reforms sought by its lenders but implementing them in 2019 and 2020 is ...
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US Treasury secretary: Business tax will be 15% under Trump's reforms
All the day’s economic and financial news, as Steven Mnuchin promises the biggest tax reforms and tax cuts ever * Latest: Mnuchin reveals tax cut plans * Mnuchin: Biggest tax cut in US history * Full announcement due at 1.3pm New York (6.30pm BST) * Introduction: Trump tax plan drives markets to record highs * Trump’s tax plans explained * Is UK data being leaked? 4.05pm BST Over in Greece, as long-stalled bailout negotiations finally resume, prime minister Alexis Tsipras has been causing ripples warning that while parliament may legislate creditor-demanded reforms, the painful measures may never be implemented if the country isn’t given debt relief. From Athens our correspondent Helena Smith reports: With the timing of a maestro, Greece’s leftist leader used the first day of reactivated bailout talks to deliver a stern message: without promised debt relief the pension cuts and tax hikes Athens has now agreed to as part of a bigger package to unlock further emergency loans will never be enforced. In a live TV interview aired late Tuesday, Tsipras said it was Greece’s right as “as sovereign government” to reverse the measures (the equivalent of 2 % of GDP and due to be enacted as of 1.1.2019) if lenders didn’t also honour pledges to offer medium-term debt relief that would allow the economy to breathe. Predicting that the progress review would be completed in time for the next eurogroup on May 22 – averting the prospect of crisis being replayed when Greece is called to meet €7.5bn of maturing debt in July – Tsipras argued that the review was no ordinary report card but part of a much broader agreement that would allow the country to finally recover from eight years of crisis. While Athens had been forced to make concessions, it had also won the ability to enforce “counter measures” to offset losses when Greece hit budget targets and secured valuable labour rights that the IMF had wanted to abolish. “We must not see this review as a review that only concerns the bailout programme. It is the most critical review. Why? Because we have a comprehensive agreement,” he said in the interview. 3.44pm BST Unlike the American Petroleum Institute figures out on Tuesday, the latest official figures on crude stocks show a surprise fall in inventories. The API said stocks rose last week by 897,000 barrels but figures from the Energy Information Administration show a weekly fall of 3.64m barrels to 528.7m. This is higher than the forecast fall of 1.7m barrels. Continue reading...
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Iran, Greece to cooperate on maritime tourism: Official
April 26, The Iran Project – Iran has negotiated with a Greek company on entering foreign cruise vessels to Iran’s shores this year, says an official at Iran’s Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization (ICHHTO). Stressing the ...
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Greece's pensioners to suffer MORE: Europe demands austerity as debt hits £268BILLION
GREEK politicians are being told to go after the country's already squeezed pensioners as it faces yet more austerity measures. By Siobhan McFadyen.
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End of the year GREEK recap
The end of the semester is quickly approaching. The GREEK community has been very active within the past few weeks, raising money for ...
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13 reasons why Greek life is the worst
At some point in our lives we’ve all toyed with the idea of being a part of a sorority or fraternity. After all, everyone says that Greek life is exceedingly fun and provides a ton of networking opportunities (not to mention lifelong friends). And yet ...
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Syrian refugees of Kurdish origin on hunger strike in Moria hot spot
Syrian refugees of Kurdish origin continue their hunger strike for sixth consecutive day in the hot spot of Moria on the island of Lesvos. The twelve men protest for long delays in the process of examining asylum requests by the secondary committees. Eleven of them launched the hunger strike last Friday Apr 11, one more … The post Syrian refugees of Kurdish origin on hunger strike in Moria hot spot appeared first on Keep Talking Greece.
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Report Slams Migrant Hotspot in Italy, Greece 'Slow, Overcrowded'
… migrants arriving in Italy and Greece has helped to significantly improve … European Court of Auditors. In Greece, new arrivals have, since March … facing freezing conditions on the Greek mainland and islands. "Refugees …
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