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Thursday, January 15, 2015
Greece Misses Target on Budget Surplus
ATHENS—Greece announced a primary budget surplus of €1.9 billion ($2.24 billion) for 2014 on Wednesday, falling short of the target set for the year, in a miss largely due to a delay in the payment of its next tranche of aid. The country’s primary ...
Greek Debt Cut Irrelevant for Now, Merkel Lawmakers Say
Greece doesn’t need a debt cut now to restore sound public finances because its debt redemption and interest payments to European creditors are on hold until 2020, lawmakers from German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s bloc said.
Greek think tank: 2004 Athens Games cost Greece $7.5 billion
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The 2004 Athens Olympics cost Greece a total of 6.5 billion euros ($7.5 billion) and didn't significantly affect the debt-heavy country's finances, a Greek economic think tank has found.
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Options on Greece ETF draw bearish bets ahead of election
Political turmoil in Greece has hit its financial markets hard, and traders in the U.S. options market are positioning for a further fall in Greek stocks as the country heads to a snap election that could determine whether it leaves the euro zone. There are few choices for investors who want narrow exposure to Greece in U.S. markets, but one, the Global X FTSE Greece 20 exchange traded fund ...
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Thursday, July 31, 2014
Ancient wine cup found in Greek grave
A cup believed to have been used by Classical Greek statesman Pericles has been found in a pauper's grave in north Athens, Greece's top daily reports. The ceramic wine cup, smashed in 12 pieces, was found during building construction in the northern Athens ...
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Greek court acquits farmers who shot 28 Bangladeshi strawberry pickers
A Greek court's decision to acquit local farmers who admitted shooting 28 Bangladeshi strawberry pickers when they dared to ask for months of back pay has sparked outrage in the country. Politicians, unionists and anti-racist groups roundly condemned the ...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014
Hikers spot large fish kill at mouth of Spercheios River
Dozens of dead fish have been found floating at the mouth of Spercheios River, near the city of Lamia in central Greece, in what is believed to be the result of pollution from farm, urban and industrial waste.
The fish kill was first spotted on Friday by ... ...
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Thousands of TV viewers to lose analogue signal Friday
Thousands of TV viewers in Attica, the Saronic islands, central and northern Evia and some parts of the Cyclades will receive a digital signal for the first time on Friday, when analogue broadcasts to these parts of Greece stop.
The switch is also set to ... ...
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Central Macedonia police arrest Serb wanted in Croatia for war crimes
A Serbian man wanted in Croatia for alleged war crimes has been arrested in northern Greece.
Police said the unnamed man was arrested on Monday night near Kilkis, Central Macedonia, by officers from a local precinct.
Subsequent checks confirmed that there... ...
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Troika review in Athens unaffected by Paris meeting
A meeting between troika and Greek government officials in Paris at the beginning of September does not mean that representatives of Greece’s lenders will not then travel to Athens to carry out the fifth review of the country’s economic adjustment program... ...
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Trainose sale is not on track
The issue of state subsidies to Greek railway operator Trainose is a long way from being resolved, according to Vladimir Yakunin, the president of Russian Railways, which has expressed an interest in acquiring the firm.
Yakunin told Russian news agency In... ...
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IMF Chief: Jury’s Still Out On Whether Greece Debt Relief Needed
Top IMF officials have repeatedly said over the past two years that Greece’s debt levels were too high and could overwhelm the country’s fragile economy without some sort of debt relief. The fund pointed to a promise by Europe to help cut Greece’s ...
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