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Tuesday, May 30, 2017

Greece Will Not Opt Out of Debt Repayment

A Greek government spokesman denied a German newspaper report on Tuesday that it was considering opting out of a loan repayment in July if lenders could not agree on debt relief. “It is not true,” government spokesman Dimitris Tzanakopoulos told Reuters.


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Greek PM Tsipras Rounding Up Support for Greek Debt Relief

With the next eurozone meeting just around the corner Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has put his charm on this week, speaking on the telephone with French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel as well as European Council’s President Donald Tusk, says an ekathimerini report. The Greek PM’s efforts are to round up support for […]


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Schaeuble on IMF: All Programs for Greece Forecasting 1% Growth are in Vain

German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said that IMF estimates on Greece are “unrealistic” in statements made on Tuesday. German reports say the German finance minister has argued that the Fund is not ready to forecast growth of more than 1% over the next 40 years. “We disagree with the IMF about what it predicts for […]


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Greek NBA All-Star Antentokounmpo in New York

NEW YORK – Greek-American youth of the New York Metropolitan area will have the unique opportunity to participate in basketball exhibition games coached by the […] The post Greek NBA All-Star Antentokounmpo in New York appeared first on The National Herald.


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Anarchy in Greece

About 250 "self-managing social centers" have popped up around Greece in the last nine years, according to The New York Times, which reports that the centers have been handing out food and medicine to the poor. (Reason's Jesse Walker blogged about Exarchia ...


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"To GREECE by highway, only small piece missing"

Outgoing Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said on Tuesday that tourists will be traveling to GREECE through Serbia this year by highway, except in two ...


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European shares hit by worries over Greece and Italy, as US confidence dips – as it happened

A hung parliament would in more normal circumstances be viewed as quite negative for the British pound [GBP] – that was very much the experience of the 2015 election when GBP was braced for one of a myriad of potential coalition permutations only for GBP …


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GREEK agency seeks better offer for Athens Airport concession extension

German-based airport manager AviAlliance and GREEK group Copelouzos, which have a 45 percent stake and a concession to run the airport until ...


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€7m PerformFISH project to boost seabass, bream in GREECE

A new €7 million research project has been launched in GREECE to help improve sustainability and competitiveness of seabass and sea bream, ...


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Repsol Obtains Permission To Explore Hydrocarbon Deposits In GREECE

The Spanish oil and gas firm will become the operator of the Ioannina block, also in western GREECE, between 2017 and 2018 and of Aitoloacarnania ...


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Why depreciation is the wrong medicine for the GREEK economy

This would be a one-off blow to the GREEK economy, which would spare the country the “never-ending procedure” of austerity measures, he argued.


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These GREEK-style scallops sizzle with a drizzle

I discovered it decades ago at a GREEK taverna where they served whole fish char-grilled and doused with spoonfuls of lemon-olive oil dressing spiked ...


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Finmin Tsakalotos: Bild Misinterpreted What I Said

ATHENS (ANA) – Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos on Tuesday denied a report published in the German newspaper “Bild” saying that Greece might not accept […] The post Finmin Tsakalotos: Bild Misinterpreted What I Said appeared first on The National Herald.


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Tsipras Calls Merkel, Macron Asking for Clearcut Solution on Greece’s Debt

ATHENS (ANA) – Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras held talks on the telephone with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday, followed by […] The post Tsipras Calls Merkel, Macron Asking for Clearcut Solution on Greece’s Debt appeared first on The National Herald.


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US consumer confidence dips, as Greek PM lobbies leaders over bailout – business live

Just in: US consumer confidence has fallen, raising concerns that the Trump Bump may be fading. The monthly measure of consumer morale, from the Confidence Board, fell to 117.9 from 120.3 in April. The survey found that consumers are less optimistic about ...


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Ball in your court, GREECE tells creditors

GREECE called on its eurozone creditors to “end their procrastination” and deliver on promised debt relief to boost the country's chances of recovery.


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Greek urban guerrilla group claims responsibility for Eurobank attack

ATHENS, May 30 (Reuters) - A Greek urban guerrilla group claimed responsibility on Tuesday for a small blast that damaged the entrance and shattered the windows of a building housing Eurobank offices in central Athens last month. There were no injuries ...


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Yale Historian Timothy Snyder on How the US Can Avoid Sliding Into Authoritarianism

Is the United States sliding toward tyranny? That is the question posed by Yale University history professor Timothy Snyder in his new book that draws on his decades of experience writing about war and genocide in European history in order to find 20 key lessons that can help the United States avoid descending into authoritarianism. "I was trying to get out front and give people very practical day-to-day things that they could do," Snyder says. "What stood behind all of that was a lifetime of working on the worst chapters of European history, a sense of how things can go very wrong." TRANSCRIPT _This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form._ JUAN GONZÁLEZ: We spend the rest of the hour with award-winning author and Yale University history professor Timothy Snyder, whose new book draws on his decades of experience writing about war and genocide in European history in order to find lessons that can help the United States avoid descending into fascist authoritarianism. It is titled _On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century_. AMY GOODMAN: Professor Snyder writes, quote, "The Founding Fathers tried to protect us from the threat they knew, the tyranny that overcame ancient democracy. Today, our political order faces new threats, not unlike the totalitarianism of the twentieth century. We are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism, or communism. Our one advantage is that we might learn from their experience." That's from _On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century_ by Timothy Snyder, Levin Professor of History at Yale University, where he joins us now. Professor Synder is also the author of _Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin_, as well as _Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning_. Welcome to Democracy Now!, Timothy Snyder. Can you talk about, well, just what we quoted you saying there? Do you think that the United States is -- is headed towards tyranny? TIMOTHY SNYDER: So, I guess the place to start would be with the quotation. Like the framers of the Constitution, I'm not an American exceptionalist. I'm a skeptic. My tendency is to look at examples from other places and to ask what we could learn. The point of using the historical examples is to remind ourselves that democracies and republics usually fail. The expectation should be failure rather than success. The framers, looking at classical examples from Greece and Rome, gave us the institutions that we have. I think our mistake at present is to imagine that the institutions will automatically continue to protect us. My sense is that we've seen institutions like our own fail. We've -- 20th century authoritarians have learned that the way to dismantle systems like ours is to go after one institution and then the next, which means that we have to have an active relationship, both to history, so that we can see how failure arises and learn from people who tried to protect institutions, but also an active relationship to our own institutions, that our institutions are only as good as the people who try to serve them. JUAN GONZÁLEZ: Well, Professor Snyder, in terms of the rise of tyranny in the 20th century, clearly, the rise of fascism came in the period after World War I. The masses of people in the world had been exposed to these imperialist wars, and there was tremendous insecurity. Do you see -- what parallels do you see between that period in the '30s and our situation today? TIMOTHY SNYDER: That's a wonderful question, because it helps us see how history can brace us, can give us a kind of grounding. When we think about globalization today, we imagine that it's the first globalization, that everything about it is new. And that's just not the case. The globalization we're in now is the second one. The first globalization was the late 19th century and the early 20th century, when there was a similar expansion of world trade, export-led growth. And interestingly, there was also a similar rhetoric of optimism, the idea that trade would lead to enlightenment, would lead to liberalism, would lead to peace. That pattern of the late 19th century, we saw it break. We saw the First World War, as you say, the Great Depression, the Second World War. One way to understand all of that is the long failure of the first globalization. Once we have that in mind, we shouldn't be surprised that our own globalization has contradictions, has opponents, that it generates -- that it generates opposition, that it generates ideas of the far right, sometimes the far left, that are against it. So, history instructs us that there's nothing new or nothing automatic about globalization, but it also instructs us that there are people who lived through the end of that first globalization, the kind of people I cite in the book -- Hannah Arendt, Victor Klemperer -- who observed these effects and then gave us very practical advice about how we can react. So, part of our own misunderstanding of globalization, that it's all new, is that history doesn't matter, precisely because it's all new. What I'm trying to say in the book is, no, the opposite. We've seen globalization fail before. We've seen fascism rise. We've seen other threats to liberalism, democracy, republics. What we should be doing is learning from the 20th century, rather than forgetting it. AMY GOODMAN: You wrote a Facebook post in November. Tell us what you wrote about when Donald Trump was elected. TIMOTHY SNYDER: Yeah, so, I mean, the thing about the Facebook post, I wrote it right after the election. And it was the first thing that I did. And it was -- it was these 20 lessons. It was an attempt to compress everything that I thought I understood about the 20th century into very brief points that would help Americans react, because I had the strong feeling -- I think it turned out to be correct -- that there would be tens of millions of Americans who would be surprised and disoriented and shocked by the election of Mr. Trump and would be seeking some way to react. And I did it as quickly as I could, because it's very important in these kinds of historical moments to get out front. The tendency to or the temptation to normalize is very strong. The temptation to wait and to say, "Well, let's see what he does after the inauguration. Let's see who his advisers are. Let's see what the policies are," that temptation generates normalization, which is already happening in the United States. And so, I was trying to get out front and give people very practical day-to-day things that they could do. But what stood behind all of that was a lifetime of working on the worst chapters of European history, a sense of how things can go very wrong. What also stood behind it is my friendships with my teachers and also my students from Eastern Europe, people who have their own biographical connection either to the authoritarianisms of the 20th century or, sadly, the new authoritarianisms of the 21st. It's that, a little bit, which helps me to see that these kinds of things can happen to people like us, but also that there are practical ways that people like us can respond. JUAN GONZÁLEZ: I wanted to ask you about the first lesson you talk about in your book, especially in light of the realities that, in our day and age, clearly, authoritarianism has enormous more power of surveillance and social control of populations. You write in your first lesson, "Do not obey in advance. Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do." I think about that in terms of the enormous gravitation of the population toward social media and then the ability of states and corporations to actually monitor and control what people say and do and shop and everything they're thinking about. TIMOTHY SNYDER: Yeah, so, I agree with that completely. The historical basis of that first lesson, "Don't obey in advance," is what historians think we understand about authoritarian regime changes, and in particular the Nazi regime change of 1933. Historians of Nazi Germany disagree about a lot of things, but one of the few things we agree about is the significance of adaptation from below in 1933. When we look at Hitler in retrospect, we sometimes have a tendency to think of him as a kind of supervillain who can do anything. But in fact, the lesson of 1933 is that consent from below matters a lot, not consent necessarily in the sense of voting or marching or anything active, but consent in the sense of bystanding, going along, making mental adjustments. So the point of "Don't obey in advance" is not to give your consent in that way, which is very important, because if you do just drift at the beginning, then psychologically you're lost, or, to put it a different way, if you don't follow lesson one, "Don't obey in advance," then you can't follow lessons two to 20, either. Politically, it's also really important, because the time which matters the most is the beginning, where we are now. Right now we actually have much more power than we think we do. Our actions are magnified outwards now. When protest becomes illegal or dangerous, this is going to change. But right now Americans actually have more power than they think they do. And your point actually magnifies all of this, because the reason -- one of the reasons you shouldn't obey in advance is that when you do, you're actually giving power ideas. They don't necessarily have plans. They don't necessarily know what they can do. But when we lean towards what they think they want -- and social media is a very good example of this -- then we give them ideas. We teach them what they can do. So, in our real lives and in social media, it's very important not to obey in advance, because, you're absolutely right, that information is being collected and collated and considered. AMY GOODMAN: Number two, Timothy Snyder, in your _Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century_, is "Defend institutions." Explain. TIMOTHY SNYDER: Well, that's the second most important lesson. It's number -- it's number two for a reason. I have in mind, above all, the constitutional institutions. But I also have in mind, later on in the book, other kinds of institutions, like professional or vocational institutions or nongovernmental organizations. And the reason why institutions are so important is that they're what prevent us from being those atomized individuals who are alone against the overpowering state. That's a very romantic image, but the isolated individual is always going to lose. We need the constitutional institutions as much as we can get them going. It's a real problem now, especially with the legislature. We also need the professions, whether it's law or medicine or civil servants, to act according to rules that are not the same thing as just following orders. And we need to be able to form ourselves up into nongovernmental organizations, because it's not just that we have freedom of association. It's that freedom itself requires association. We need association to have our own ideas confirmed, to have our confidence raised, to be in a position to actually act as individuals. Some of that is actually happening, which is a good sign. JUAN GONZÁLEZ: I wanted to ask you about number nine of your lessons -- "Be kind to our language" -- especially, again, in the times in which we are today, where kindness is one of the few things that politicians or academics talk about much. TIMOTHY SNYDER: So, I have in mind the necessity of thinking, really, because the way we are now -- and this connects back to your earlier question -- the way we are now, we're bombarded, from the television, from the internet, with whatever tropes and memes are being chosen for us for a given day or for a given hour. And whether we agree or disagree or feel comfortable or uncomfortable, there's a certain tendency to express ourselves in the terms that come down from above. We get caught up in this daily rush. You see this, for example, in people who think they're critical of Trump, but use his language. First, they use it as a joke, and then they find that they can't get -- they can't get themselves out of it. So, being kind to language is one of these -- is one of these lessons that seems easy. It just means read, think and try to express your views, whether they're for or against, in your own words, because my very strong sense is that if we have pluralism of expression, we're going to be fostering pluralism of thought, and that if people can clarify why it is that they're opposing this or that, they're going to be more likely to be persuasive. And at a minimum, in the worst case, if you have your own way of expressing yourself, you at least clutter up the daily memes. You at least put a barrier in the way of the daily tropes. You at least form a force field around yourself and maybe the people who are closest to you, where it's possible to think and have a little peace. AMY GOODMAN: We're going to break, then come back to our discussion with Timothy Snyder, professor of history at Yale University, author of the book _On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century_. It's been number one on The New York Times best-seller list for a long time now. Stay with us.


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The Only Greece Review List You Need to Plan Your Next Trip

Anyone planning a trip to Greece (or even open to the possibility) will be in good hands after reading The Jen Reviews list about the 100 best things to do in Greece. The review mentions that tourism is still the number one industry in the country, as well ...


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PM mustering support for GREEK debt relief bid

Government sources on Tuesday indicated that Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has been trying to drum up support for Greece's demand for debt relief ...


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Six reasons to visit Oakleigh: GREEK cafe culture, golf, music and more

The olive tree in the middle of Eaton Mall is the symbol that this is the heart of GREEK cafe culture in Melbourne. The pedestrianised shopping precinct ...


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Euro dips as GREEK seeks a deal and the ECB hints at its next move

As the stalemate between Greece, the ECB, and the IMF continues, GREEK finance minister Euclid Tsakalotos said, "We can't accept a deal which is not ...


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Greek legends and Mozart in shows coming to The Place in Bedford

A Greek adventure and a musical look …


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Greece: Greece data snapshot (28 May 2017)

… in Greece (Jan - May 2017): 7,069 Total arrivals in Greece … . 2017) (Source: Hellenic Coast Guard, Greek territorial waters, provisional data)


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European shares fall on political worries over Greece and Italy, as JP Morgan says hung parliament could be positive for pound

… lead. European shares fall on Greece and Italy uncertainties European shares … newspaper, the Bild, suggested that Greece might forego its next bailout …


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Greek far-left militants claim Athens bank bomb explosion

A Greek far-left militant group has claimed responsibility for a bomb explosion outside an Athens bank office last month. In a posting on a leftwing website Tuesday, the Popular Fighters Group said it selected the office because it housed bad loan ...


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Greek government denies reports that it may forgo next bailout payment

Greek government officials have been forced to deny that the country is set to waive its next €7bn (£6bn) bailout payment if creditors fail to reach an agreement on its debt relief. A report from German newspaper Bild on Monday claimed Greece is ready ...


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Greek officials insists debt deal still possible, no plan to disburse without loans

Greek officials have insisted that a deal on the country’s debt relief program would be possible in June, so that Athens would not need to opt out of receiving extra bailout loans to reimburse a debt the following month. Government spokesman Dimitris ...


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10 things you need to know today (SPY, SPX, QQQ, DIA)

[Venezuela protestors] Here is what you need to know. GERMANY SAYS TRUMP HAS "WEAKENED THE WEST." German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel unleashed on US President Donald Trump, saying "anyone who accelerates climate change by weakening environmental protection, who sells more weapons in conflict zones, and who does not want to politically resolve religious conflicts is putting peace in Europe at risk," according to AFP. A CRACKDOWN ON CHINA'S "SHADOW BANKING" SYSTEM IS RATTLING ITS MARKETS. Since Guo Shuqing was named banking regulator in February, he has introduced rules to discourage banks from using borrowed money to invest in bonds, which in turn has pushed bond yields to two-year highs and wiped $38 billion in market cap from Chinese banks. GREECE WANTS CLARITY ON ITS DEBT. Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos pushed back against a report from Germany's Bild that suggested Greece would default if debt relief was not granted, telling Reuters: "What I did say is that the disbursement was not an issue, because all sides agreed that we have kept to our commitments. But the Greek government feels that a disbursement without clarity on debt is not enough to turn the Greek economy around." THE POLLS ARE TIGHTENING AHEAD OF THE UK ELECTION. A poll conducted by Survation for ITV's "Good Morning Britain" shows Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservative Party holds a 43%-to-37% lead over Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party before the June 8 election, the Independent says. That gap has narrowed by 3 points over the past the week. GOLD HIT A 1-MONTH HIGH. The precious metal crossed $1,270 an ounce on Tuesday morning, hitting its best level since April 28. OIL IS SLIPPING. West Texas Intermediate crude oil trades down by 0.4% at $49.57 a barrel as traders remain skeptical that the extension of the OPEC production cuts through the first quarter of 2018 will be enough to cure the global oil glut. MARK YUSKO IS SOUNDING THE ALARM ON US STOCKS. Speaking at Mauldin Economics' Strategic Investment Conference last week, Morgan Creek Capital Management's chief investment officer, Mark Yusko, said: "I'm telling you right now: The US is going to have a crash, and it will be massive." STOCK MARKETS AROUND THE WORLD ARE LOWER. Japan's Nikkei finished flat, and France's CAC (-0.6%) trails in Europe. The S&P 500 is set to open lower by 0.2% near 2,410. EARNINGS REPORTING IS LIGHT. Dollar General reports ahead of the opening bell, while Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Restoration Hardware release their quarterly results after markets close. US ECONOMIC DATA FLOWS. Personal income and spending and PCE core prices will be released at 8:30 a.m. ET before S&P Case-Shiller home prices and consumer confidence cross the wires at 9 a.m. and 10 a.m. ET. The US 10-year yield is down by 1 basis point at 2.24%. Join the conversation about this story »


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Rental Rates in Attica Decline While Prices for Short-Term Leases Soar

Although the rental rates for homes has dropped in Attica, the demand for short-term lease from the international market is still very active. According to Bank of Greece figures, the average rental rate for a home has dropped some 0.4 percent year-on-year. This is considered to be a rather small decline considering that in 2016 […]


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What Ancient Greece Tell Us About China Relations

Graham Allison, director of Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, joins us to discuss his book Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap? Allison looks at parallels in history to explain the ...


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SYRIZA MP: “We should look into rupture with the lenders”

“If the partner has become a callous lender, who is also a liar and does not stick to the commitments and keeps changing the agreement framework on permanent basis, we should consider rupture with the lenders,” the spokesman of  the parliamentary group of SYRIZA, Nikos Xydakis, said on Tuesday. Speaking to Real Fm, the former … The post SYRIZA MP: “We should look into rupture with the lenders” appeared first on Keep Talking Greece.


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Greece: Eurovision winner Helena Paparizou sizzles in steamy ad for Bioten

She won Eurovision twelve years ago in Ukraine and proved her enduring survivor spirit by placing 4th at Melodifestivalen 2014. And now Helena Paparizou has turned her talents to advertising, appearing in a steamy spot for Bioten Cosmetics, who offer ...


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New regulations affecting all boat users in Greece finalised

New regulations affecting all boat users in Greece have finally been put into place – and all must comply by September of this year or risk being fined, reports the Cruising Association (CA). The CA has been trying to clear up confusion over the ...


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Ancient port of Corinth, Greece captured by drone

What did the ancient Greeks do to cross the narrow land of the Corinth Canal from the Saronic to the Corinthian Gulf and vice versa? They used these two ports (Lecheon in the Corinthian and the Kechreai in the Saronic Gulf) and gouged ships ashore where ...


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Greece's Energean signs contract to supply about 23 billion cubic meters of natural gas to private power stations in Israel

… , 2017 (MarketLine via COMTEX) -- Greece's Energean has signed …


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Greece trashes report it may opt out of bailout

… July debt repayment Athens: A Greek government spokesman denied a German … a solution on June 15.” Greece is hoping a June 15 …


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No opt-out from extra loan on debt: Greece

Greek officials have insisted that a deal on the country’s debt relief program would be possible in June, so that Athens would not need to opt out of receiving extra bailout loans to reimburse a debt the following month. Government spokesman Dimitris ...


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“Amerika Square” and “Son of Sofia” Bookend Los Angeles GREEK Film Festival

The Los Angeles GREEK Film Festival will open with the West Coast premiere of “Amerika Square” (pictured above), Yannis Sakaridis' tragic story set in ...


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GREEK finance minister: creditors must keep promise on debt relief

The long-run impasse over this stage of the bailout has already hit the GREEK economy, prompting the revision of optimistic forecasts that had raised ...


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Greek, Italian Risks Weigh On European, Global Markets; Oil, Gold Slide

Tuesday's session started off on the back foot, with the Euro first sliding on Draghi's dovish comments before Europarliament on Monday where he signaled no imminent change to ECB’s forward guidance coupled with a Bild report late on Monday according to ...


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Greece Needs National Plan to Exit the Crisis

Greece must make it clear, ahead of a crucial Eurogroup meeting in June 15, that a debt relief cannot be postponed constantly to the future without consequences, Yiannis Dragasakis vice-president of the Greek government said on Tuesday. Addressing a 5th ...


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British Airways: Couple finally marry after guests arrive on Greek island

A couple forced to postpone their Greek island wedding after half the invitee's British Airways flights were cancelled have finally said "I do". Laura Sciortino and her husband Sam, from Woking, Surrey, had planned to marry in Santorini on Sunday and had ...


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Poll: 4 in 10 Greeks Believe Tsipras Brought the Worst Austerity Measures

Four in 10 Greeks believe that the Alexis Tsipras government has brought the worst austerity measures, according to a poll by the University of Macedonia. Conducted on behalf of Skai television, the survey shows that the majority of Greeks do not believe the prime minister’s claim that he has negotiated hard with creditors and brought […]


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Greek Fighter Jet Crash Raises Poor Military Maintenance Fears

The crash of a three-decades-old Greek fighter jet, in which the pilot received only minor injuries, has caused fears over whether the fleet is being […] The post Greek Fighter Jet Crash Raises Poor Military Maintenance Fears appeared first on The National Herald.


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Anxious Customers Yanking Billions from Beleaguered Greek Banks

ATHENS – With more political and economic uncertainty after the government’s failure to get a debt relief plan from European creditors, Greek banks are seeing […] The post Anxious Customers Yanking Billions from Beleaguered Greek Banks appeared first on The National Herald.


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Albania discovers “grey zones” in the Ionian Sea as Greece exploits hydrocarbon

Albania has discovered “grey zones” in the Ionian Sea and claims Greece needs to ask permission from Tirana in order to conduct hydrocarbon exploitation. Following the tactics of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Albanian prime minister Edi Rama tears bilateral Treaties apart and challenges the Greek sovereignty in the Ionian Sea. Rama claims a piece … The post Albania discovers “grey zones” in the Ionian Sea as Greece exploits hydrocarbon appeared first on Keep Talking Greece.


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This vegetable-packed GREEK stew and potato salad could help you live longer

In this installment, he prepares recipes from the GREEK island of Ikaria. The people of this remote island outlive the average American by more than a ...


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Europe feels the heat as political temperatures rise

LONDON (Reuters) - European shares fell for a fourth day running on Tuesday and the euro was battling to avoid a similar fate, as the prospect of early Italian elections and Greece's ongoing struggles nudged up the political temperature gauge again.


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‘Navarino Challenge’: Special Airfares for International Flights to Greece by Qatar Airways

Qatar Airways, the national carrier of the State of Qatar, will once again support “Navarino Challenge” as its official airline partner and offer special fares to passengers traveling from all over the world to Greece to participate in the sports ...


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