Setting up a business in a country that is struggling to recover from a severe economic crisis is hardly the most ideal of circumstances. So Greek entrepreneurs Dimitris Kokkinakis and Sophie Lamprou ...
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How the world sees Greece
Friday, July 5, 2019
GREEK Police Arrest Suspect Over Evia Wildfire; Five Injured
A 64-year-old suspect was arrested on Thursday night as the culprit of the forest wildfire in the region of Manikia of Evia, which started at 14:15.
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Remembering Eva Palmer Sikelianos, the Artist Who Lived Like an Ancient GREEK
Everything from Eva's seated position, to her hairstyle, to the book she clutches like an ancient scroll echoes a 5th century GREEK vase painting ...
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Biggest Ever 'Jihadi Pill' Haul Worth $660m Seized at GREEK Port, Authorities Say
GREEK authorities have announced the seizure of what they called the biggest-ever haul of Captagon, the amphetamine-type drug associated with ...
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GREEKS abroad voice their opinion about being denied voting rights in upcoming election
Representatives of GREEK communities abroad have written a letter to GREEK Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, condemning their lack of voting rights in the ...
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Greek election: Mitsotakis and the return of a Greek dynasty
Kyriakos Mitsotakis has Greek politics running through his veins. His father Konstantinos Mitsotakis was prime minister in the early 1990s and his sister, Dora Bakoyannis, was mayor Athens when the ...
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Measures Taken to Ease Traffic at Bulgaria-GREECE Kulata Border Crossing
Over the past week, 58,600 vehicles crossed from Bulgaria into GREECE and 59,000 entered the country. About 500,000 people had crossed the border ...
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Mohegan partners with GEK Terna to bid for a casino at GREECE'S Hellinikon project
Backed by Chinese and Gulf funds, Lamda Development plans to turn the disused Hellinikon airport in GREECE'S capital into a complex of luxury ...
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Ask Stavroula: Husband’s Dysfunctional Family
Dear Stavroula, I am a woman who grew up in a traditionally strict Greek home where as a girl I had to abide by a […] The post Ask Stavroula: Husband’s Dysfunctional Family appeared first on The National Herald.
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Greece: Five degrees and still no job
How a decade of economic unrest has affected the employment prospects of three Greek graduates.
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Von der Leyen and GREECE in focus This WEEK
After Tsipras came into power as a firebrand politician who will show to the EU that GREECE will not take any type of bailout deal, he folded and GREECE ...
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Pope to Ukrainian GREEK-Catholics: I hold you in my heart
By Christopher Wells. In his remarks to the leaders of the Ukrainian GREEK-Catholic Church, Pope Francis acknowledged the "difficult and delicate ...
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Greece: Reinforcements sent to fight 4 fires on Evia island
ATHENS, Greece - (AP) -- Greek authorities sent reinforcements to firefighters battling four wildfires burning out of control on the Greek island of Evia Friday, while at least five villages were ...
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GREECE: Stop the advance of the ND with a mass vote for the KKE!
An announcement from the Communist Tendency (Greek section of the IMT) on the 7th July elections. The only possible way to stop the advance of ...
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Greek-American Spiro Malas, Opera Star and Actor, Was 86
NEW YORK – Greek-American opera star and actor Spiro Malas passed away at the age of 86 on June 23. The son of Greek immigrants […] The post Greek-American Spiro Malas, Opera Star and Actor, Was 86 appeared first on The National Herald.
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US Ambassador Injured in Cycling Accident in Mani
US Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt returned to Athens after an accident while cycling in Mani, southern Greece, on Friday. In a tweet, the ambassador thanked the […] The post US Ambassador Injured in Cycling Accident in Mani appeared first on The National Herald.
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Guitarist Eric Clapton on Holiday at Rhodes and Symi
RHODES, Greece – The famous English guitarist Eric Clapton has been spending his summer holiday at the islands of the Dodecanese, in the southeastern Aegean […] The post Guitarist Eric Clapton on Holiday at Rhodes and Symi appeared first on The National Herald.
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Why young people have suffered the most from Greece’s economic collapse
Since its economic crash nearly a decade ago, Greece has had the highest youth unemployment in the EU. With Greek elections this weekend, politicians are now trying to win them over but their efforts ...
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In controversial move, Greek PM approves billions to football clubs PAOK, AEK and OFI via TV rights
The special meeting was chaired by PM Tsipras at Maximos Hall
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Meet Moses Elisaf, The First Jewish Mayor In Greece, The Cradle Of Democracy
The municipal elections of a small city may seem like an unlikely way to make history after 2,300 years of history, but that’s what happened in June when the Greek city of Ioannina elected a Jew ...
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American (and GREEK, and German) exceptionalism
What is “GREEK Exceptionalism”? I can't really claim to be an expert, and actual GREEKS are invited to chime in, but near as I can tell, they take pride in ...
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A free house and a new life? This beautiful GREEK island is paying families to move there
The initiative, supported by the GREEK Orthodox Church, is also hoping to attract more tourists over the summer season. As things stand, according to a ...
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Syriza betrayed its principles – and the GREEK people. Its days are numbered
This week marks the fourth anniversary of the 2015 referendum, in which 61% of GREEKS backed Tsipras's defiant “no” to the bailouts of the troika ...
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Greek leaders make last push ahead of election
Greek voters appear set to defy a surge of support populist parties across Europe in a general election Sunday, with the pro-EU centre-right opposition firmly in the lead.
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GREECE says Turkey's airspace violations have escalated
An escalated number of Turkish airspace violations has heightened tensions in the Aegean, Greek daily Kathimerini reported on Thursday. According ...
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Greek opposition tax cut plans are too costly, minister says before vote
ATHENS, July 5 (Reuters) - Plans from Greece’s opposition for tax cuts could derail the country’s fiscal strategy, its deputy finance minister said on Friday, two days before an election that polls ...
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Villages evacuated on GREEK island as crews battle wildfires
Two new brush fires have broken out on the GREEK island of Evia, forcing the evacuation of four villages, authorities have said. The new wildfires came ...
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Denied Voting Rights, Unhappy Greeks Abroad Blame Tsipras
ATHENS – Having backtracked on promises to let Greeks abroad vote in general elections, Prime Minister and Radical Left SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras – just […] The post Denied Voting Rights, Unhappy Greeks Abroad Blame Tsipras appeared first on The National Herald.
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Anarchist Attack On Greek Media Company Denounced
ATHENS – The ruling Radical Left SYRIZA and major opposition New Democracy joined in condemning an anarchist assault by the Rouvikonas group on the offices […] The post Anarchist Attack On Greek Media Company Denounced appeared first on The National Herald.
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Tsipras, Having Changed Greece, Now Seems Poised to Lose It
ATHENS — With elections approaching on Sunday, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has tried his best to remind frustrated Greeks how bad things were and how much better they had become during his four ...
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Greek conservatives have 10- to 15.5-point lead over Syriza in snap vote: polls
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece’s conservative New Democracy party has a 10- to 15.5 percentage point lead over the ruling leftist Syriza ahead of a snap election on Sunday, two polls published on Friday ...
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Greece Seizes Record Amount of Amphetamine Captagon Shipped From Syria
ATHENS — Greek authorities have seized what they described as the world's largest single haul of super-charged amphetamine Captagon pills from Syria worth more than half a billion euros. Coastguard ...
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Greece: 4th wildfire breaks out on island of Evia
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — More than 250 firefighters were battling four wildfires on the Greek island of Evia on Friday, with authorities ordering the evacuation of four villages as a precaution. One of ...
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Greek Authorities Seize Massive Shipment of Captagon Drug
ATHENS, Greece — Greek authorities say they have seized more than five tons of the synthetic drug known as Captagon, which they say is the largest amount of the drug ever seized globally. Greece's ...
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Butlers, yacht workers wanted to help lure wealthier tourists to Greece
The Athens Riviera, just 20 minutes from the Acropolis and the Greek capital’s bustling city center, should have been a playground for the world’s wealthy. It’s not. The 70-kilometer (44-mile) ...
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GREEK Bonds Emerge From the Fire of 2011 Stronger Than Ever
(Bloomberg) -- In all the market milestones breached in recent weeks, the performance of Europe's most-indebted nation has been remarkable.GREEK ...
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GREEKS abroad complain about lack of voting rights in letter to PM
In a letter to Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, representatives of GREEK communities abroad have condemned the stance of his government as regards ...
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Ukrainian GREEK-Catholic leaders meet with Pope at the Vatican
A two-day meeting with leaders of the Ukrainian GREEK-Catholic Church, convened by Pope Francis, begins Friday at the Vatican. Present for the ...
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GREEK Expatriates Blast PM Tsipras for Denying them Right to Vote
A group of expatriate communities across the world, sent an open letter to GREEK Prime Minister, Alexis Tsipras, criticizing him for depriving them of the ...
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The Intelligence “The country still bears the scars of its economic crisis”-Greece heads to the polls
Also on the daily podcast: the political fight over America’s detainees and the astonishing rise of women’s football ...
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GREECE to hold snap election on Sunday
ATHENS. GREECE'S electorate will head to the polls on Sunday in a snap parliamentary contest six weeks after Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras' defeat in ...
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Smelling Big Victory, Mitsotakis Says New Greece Coming
ATHENS – With surveys showing he has leads as high as 15 percent, major opposition New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis is expecting a big win […] The post Smelling Big Victory, Mitsotakis Says New Greece Coming appeared first on The National Herald.
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Five-Year Greece Record Tourism Run Seen Ending
ATHENS – In an ominous note for the next administration after the July 7 snap elections, a five-year skein of record tourism for Greece seems […] The post Five-Year Greece Record Tourism Run Seen Ending appeared first on The National Herald.
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PM Tsipras: The Majority of Greeks Want a Turnaround of the European Election Results
THESSALONIKI – The country wishes for and has a need for a great turnaround for most people, Prime Minister and SYRIZA party leader Alexis Tsipras […] The post PM Tsipras: The Majority of Greeks Want a Turnaround of the European Election Results appeared first on The National Herald.
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Five Predictions About the GREEK Elections
Election results are hard to call ahead of time in any country, but a number of predictions about the GREEK elections this Sunday can be made with a ...
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Ahead of GREEK Elections, Political Parties Proliferate
It's logical for many options to exist,” said Kyriakos Velopoulos, the TV pitchman who leads the new GREEK Solution party. He is hoping his party will ...
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Family trouble
Greece’s probable next prime minister will have to take on the establishment from which he hails
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Disillusioned Greek Voters Could Punish Tamed Populist Tsipras
Lamprini Rori, lecturer in politics, University of Exeter, spoke to Bloomberg’s Daybreak Europe’s Caroline Hepker and Roger Hearing about the Greek election. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras shot to ...
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Bond traders are flocking to Greece to bask in the highest yields in eurozone
An image of a chain link. It symobilizes a website link url. An envelope. It indicates the ability to send an email. A stylized bird with an open mouth, tweeting. The word "in". A stylized letter F. ...
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His Greek grandmother inspired a food business selling almond dip in various flavors
His Greek grandmother inspired a food business selling almond dip in various flavors He grew up on Greek food and an almond dip called skordalia made by his grandmother. Now he sells the dip in ...
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