GREEK prosecutor calls for 18 to stand trial over defense systems

According to prosecutors, Liakounakos's company SONAK allegedly received a 35-million-euro commission on behalf of the GREEK state but failed to ...

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GREEK political leaders cross swords in first debate ahead of Sept. 20 elections

The leader of the Radical Left SYRIZA party and former GREEK Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras (R) and the head of the conservatives of New Democracy ...

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Greek PM Thanou: ‘We Continue to Implement Measures on Migration’

“Our government has continued the implementation of the measures on migration, which had been initiated by previous governments,” Greek caretaker Prime Minister Vassiliki Thanou said in an interview with ANA-MPA on Wednesday. “Despite the efforts to improve these measures, we are trying to decide and implement some additional measures in order to contribute towards the solution

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Alexis Tsipras appeals to GREEK voters ahead of national election

ATHENS—Former GREEK prime minister Alexis Tsipras said Sunday the upcoming national election is a battle between his “honourable” government ...

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Syriza victory in GREECE no longer certain - polls

As world attention focuses on migrants cramming into trains in Hungary or on to flimsy boats headed for GREECE or Italy, Norwegian police said about ...

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Three People Dead in Greek Psychiatric Hospital Fire

Three people were killed on Friday afternoon during a fire that broke out at the ground floor of Dafni Psychiatric Hospital in Athens, Greece. The three deceased individuals were hospital patients. The Greek Fire Department said that three more people were seriously injured. The Athens-Macedonian News Agency reported that the fire department noted that the victims possibly died from

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US removes Greek leftist group from terror blacklist ...

Washington (AFP) - The United States regards the Greek armed leftist group the "Revolutionary Organization 17 November" as defunct and has removed it from its terror ...

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State Department Rescinds Terrorist Designation of GREEK Guerilla Group November 17

17N_oplismos2_356_355 The U.S. State Department revoked the designation of GREEK urban guerilla group November 17 as a terrorist organization, ...

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Bulgaria’s former State Agency for National Security boss nominated as consul-general in Thessaloniki

Sofia, September 4, 2015/ Independent Balkan News Agency By Clive Leviev-Sawyer of The Sofia Globe The former head of Bulgaria’s State Agency for National Security, Vladimir Pisanchev, has been nominated to become consul-general in the Greek city of Thessaloniki. The nomination is subject to approval by head of state President Rossen Plevneliev. Foreign Minister Daniel […]

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Greek authorities in search of new refugee hosting areas

Athens, September 4, 2015/ Independent Balkan News Agency By Spiros Sideris In search of other areas to create open refugee reception centers, in order to ensure the temporary nature of the Eleonas center, focused the discussion of the Deputy Minister of Immigration Policy Yannis Mouzalas, with the Mayor of Athens Giorgos Kaminis, during their meeting […]

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4 detained in Turkey over deadly migrant capsize en route to GREEK island

... police office said Thursday that four Syrian citizens had been apprehended for illegally carrying refugees from the Turkish coast to GREEK islands.

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Economic Support for Greek Islands Receiving Most Migrants

Caretaker Finance Minister Nikos Christodoulakis on Thursday said islands receiving the bulk of migrants will be economically supported. During a press conference on the refugee issue, Christodoulakis noted that officials of the Economy ministry will be transferred to to the Migration Policy ministry to help assess the crisis. Alternate Migration Policy Minister Yiannis Mouzalas earlier said

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Greek PM Thanou to meet EU's Timmermans, Avramopoulos on Thursday

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Meeting for the relaxation of capital controls

Athens, September 3, 2015/ Independent Balkan News Agency By Spiros Sideris The relaxation in the regime of restrictions on capital movements and banking transactions with a series of interventions was the central issue in meeting that took place under finance minister Nikos Christodoulakis and the involvement of the deputy governor of the Bank of Greece, […]

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GREEK leftist leader calls for return of drachma

Panagiotis Lafazanis, who was energy minister until he broke ranks with Alexis Tsipras, the GREEK prime minister, last month to form his own left-wing ...

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Greek PM Thanou to announce measures on migration

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Greece takes measures to deal with migrant crisis -UPDATE

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Greek PM Thanou to Juncker: We will respect GREECE'S European commitments [LETTER]

Days after the letter of European Commission President, Jean-Claude Juncker to the Prime Minister of the new caretaker government of GREECE, ...

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The Latest: 5th suspect in deaths of 71 migrants in jail

Authorities say the migrants suffocated in the truck. [...] both Austria and Hungary have stepped up efforts to crack down on possible smugglers. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban will meet with top EU officials on Thursday in Brussels about the crisis, including EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, EU Council President Donald Tusk, and European Parliament President Martin Schulz. The court ruled Tuesday they had been subjected to degrading and inhuman treatment during four days in an Italian detention center, suffered a collective expulsion and could not challenge their forced return home. Bavaria has opened Germany's first reception center meant to house only migrants from southeastern Europe, part of an effort to deal more quickly with people flooding in from the Balkans whose chances of being allowed to stay are minimal. The state's social affairs minister, Emilia Mueller, said authorities at the center will try to process asylum claims within six weeks. Police spokeswoman Katerina Rendlova said most of the migrants didn't have proper documents, including permission to enter Czech territory, so they were detained and will be sent to the country's migrant centers. Spain's conservative prime minister says his country is open to spreading out arriving refugees among the European Union's 28 nations, but isn't committing to take in more than the 2,739 it already has pledged to accept. Hungary has suspended all rail traffic from its main terminal in Budapest and cleared the train station of hundreds of migrants trying to board trains for Austria and Germany after scuffles broke out where a train was to leave for Vienna and Munich. Scores of locals, tourists and migrants with travel documents and tickets remained in the cavernous station, some staring at information boards still showing arrival and departure times. Citing Macedonian figures, UNICEF says four out of five of the migrants come from Syria. Since June, more than 52,000 people have been registered in the town of Gevgelija on the Greek border. Greece's coast guard says it has rescued nearly 1,200 migrants from the sea off its eastern Aegean islands in a single day, as the flood of people fleeing war and poverty to seek shelter in the European Union continues unabated. The coast guard said Tuesday it had picked up 1,192 people in 31 separate search-and-rescue operations from Monday morning to Tuesday morning off the islands of Lesbos, Chios, Samos, Agathonissi, Farmakonissi, Kos and Megisti.

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Greek crisis: Why should people outside Greece care?

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, right, and Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos react during a parliament session in Athens on July 15, 2015. Do you ...

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